Changing Memory for IntelliJ On OSX

I noticed my package scans were really slow in IntelliJ when starting/stopping my J2EE engines.  Real slow.  So I upped the memory and it helped a great deal. This was done for IntelliJ 15 Community Edition on OSX El Capitan (10.11.3). First, close IntelliJ of course. Right click the application and choose “Show Package Contents.” Open […]

Two Year Anniversary for Code I Never Use

This hearkens to those Joel Spolsky code-tests — Tower of Annoy, Code Rolfing, etc.  And I was looking back in my posted articles and realized I had just passed a two-year anniversary for one of the strangest interviews I had ever done in my life which also involved a test on code I have never used before […]

EC Tech Meetup March 1, 2016: Java Concurrency Intro – Layman’s Delight

Obtained a room in downtown Eau Claire over lunch to practice giving presentations (since I don’t do that much anymore) via a Laymen’s Java Concurrency Intro. At a very high level presented threads, concurrency, locks, synchronization and real world analogies to these mechanisms.