redlab-log

I got a lot of spam on Skype; so what do you do? Disable the ability for unknown people to contact you. The last one that droved me to prevent anyone except contact list people from contacting me was a really long one worth to mention:
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Last week I was stress testing a webapplication. While putting heavy load to the server, the server went Oom (Out Of Mana… , euh Memory) . That was a quick stress test. The testing task quickly changed into a debugging task.
Finding the leak isn’t an easy task. With just looking at a java.lang.OutOfMemoryError error you wont find it. You’ll need a profiler or a heapdump inspection tool.

I decided to go for the profiler. A year ago I tried the netbeans internal profiler, that was a very nice profiler but it’s a pain to import projects into NB that don’t follow it’s standards. So this time, no NetBeans.
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Recently update the list of my frequently used firefox plugins on old-post.
Although some might not work (yet) at the moment of writing with Firefox 3.5

Bing Bong, the bells ring. Microsoft has launched a new version of LiveSearch called bing, what do we see on Google when searching ‘bing’ ? Bing on the second spot one day after launch. What do we see on Bing when searching ‘google’, all hits are something from google itself. what do we see when searching for ‘redlab’ on bing.com ? www.redlab.be/sitemap.xml.gz on the 8th spot

note: as with most stuff that comes from microsoft they did not make it themselves, they bought the company that did it.