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Gregg Sporar

Gregg Sporar has been a software developer for over twenty years, working on projects ranging from control software for a burglar alarm to 3D graphical user interfaces. He has been using Java since 1998 and his interests include user interfaces, development tools, and performance profiling. He worked as a Technology Evangelist for several years at Sun Microsystems and is currently a Senior Product Manager at Smart Bear Software.

 

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New Address

Posted by gsporar on June 24, 2008 at 5:40 PM EDT
How many weblogs does one person need? Blogging at java.net has been great, but I am moving my blogging activity. Check out this post for more info. and please update your RSS readers. Thanks.

JavaOne 2008 Recap: Houston

Posted by gsporar on May 28, 2008 at 11:54 PM EDT

Jim Bethancourt , president of the Houston Java Users Group (HJUG) invited me to sit on a panel at their May meeting to discuss JavaOne 2008.

TS-6000 : Improving Application Performance with Monitoring and Profiling Tools

Posted by gsporar on May 28, 2008 at 5:30 PM EDT

Last year I made a change that I really enjoyed: I did not blog during JavaOne. The event alone is enough of an exercise in endurance, so I decided to drop the blogging in favor of additional sleep. :-)

If it's Tuesday, this must be Brasília

Posted by gsporar on April 27, 2008 at 10:02 PM EDT

The ninth annual FISL conference was April 17-19 in the city of Porto Alegre, which is the capital city of the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. I was fortunate enough to have my memory leaks talk selected, so I asked my co-worker

Return to Big D

Posted by gsporar on March 14, 2008 at 8:06 PM EDT

In March 2007 the nice folks at the Java Metroplex Users Group (MUG) in Dallas let me speak to them about NetBeans.

They had noticed that I had talked about memory leaks to the

Is That Shortcut in Use?

Posted by gsporar on March 9, 2008 at 8:20 PM EDT

How can I find out whether a particular keyboard shortcut is assigned to an action in the NetBeans IDE?

Are Applets Back?

Posted by gsporar on March 9, 2008 at 8:08 PM EDT

As I described back in December, Sun ordinarily sponsors the annual holiday party of the Austin Java Users Group (AJUG). This is something that Albert Leigh and I help coordinate.

NetBeans on OpenSolaris

Posted by gsporar on February 27, 2008 at 9:32 PM EST

A while back I wrote a blog entry about how I have been primarily using Ubuntu.

Hidden Hippie

Posted by gsporar on February 5, 2008 at 6:44 PM EST

This has been written about before - Tor Norbye wrote a blog entry on this topic, as did Charles Ditzel.

More Ruby Tuesdays

Posted by gsporar on January 30, 2008 at 6:02 PM EST

Since my last blog entry on this topic, I have done two additional talks to Ruby developers.