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Jack Shirazi

Jack Shirazi is the author of O'Reilly's "Java Performance Tuning" and director of the popular website JavaPerformanceTuning.com/, the world's premier site for Java performance information. Jack writes articles for many magazines, usually about Java performance related matters. He also oversees the output at JavaPerformanceTuning.com, publishing around 1 000 performance tips a year as well as many articles about performance tools, discussion groups, and much more. In his earlier life Jack also published work on protein structure prediction and black hole thermodynamics, and contributed to some Perl5 core modules "back when he had more time".

 

Weblogs

Java Support! Well done, Sun ARE responding

I
blogged a couple of years ago that Sun just didn't understand what their customers...

Joel complains that Java is too easy

Apparently, Java is so easy to do that lots of Uni's now teach it as the main language - or even as the sole one. And because its so easy, lots more students can learn it and manage to work in it...

An incredibly useful JVM change suggestion

I spend half my time trying to identify what performance systems are doing by reproducing their behaviour in a performance testbed.

Sun - don't you WANT to make money?

I was looking for Sun Java support - paid support, not the freebie "stick your bug in the db, vote for it and if enough people vote we might do something about it" support. I was looking for...

Java and coolness, a discussion

In my last newsletter, I laid into those who criticise Java for what I see as simple jealousy. That lead to...

Java IDE comparison

There is a "Java IDE shootout" from JavaOne 2004 at...

Integrating HTML validation to my site building process

I generate my website using a local servlet container and JSP pages converting text source to html pages, then I upload all the pages to the server. Inspired by reading
...

Experiences On Running A Website For Profit, Part 2: Keep 'Em Coming

This series is about how I turned my site from a hobby site to one that is a business. I hope to distill a series of practical suggestions that will help you get your website profitable. You may...

"We don't have any competitors"

I go to the occassional meeting or trade show where vendors are displaying their wares. I look at what interests me, and sometimes give feedback to the vendors when I have appropriate expertise....

Experiences On Running A Website For Profit, Part 1: The Beginning

A Book

Sun, bullets, and feet

In January's Java Performance Tuning newsletter there are several interesting news items. Of course we had the usual range of tool vendor and benchmark announcements; what I consider to be "...

Responses to last month, and December Java Performance News

The December issue of the Java Performance Newsletter was published, contents are:

November Java Performance News

The November issue of the Java Performance Newsletter was published, contents are:

September Java Performance News

The September issue of the Java Performance Newsletter was published. Here is the content list.

August Java Performance News

The August issue of the Java Performance Newsletter was published, here is the content list

The House That Jack Built

Do you know how to use a hammer? A screwdriver? A saw? Almost certainly you do. Does that
mean you can build a house? Well maybe, but unless you have previous experience
at building...

Java Performance News

The JavaPerformanceTuning.com July newsletter was published. And naturally I wouldn't leave you ignorant of that highly important fact.

Java Case Studies


I love looking through case studies. They can teach you so much about what to do, what not to do, what is in vogue, etc. All those useful design patterns came from analyzing lots of case...

JavaOne programming puzzlers

I've been going through the published slides from the JavaOne presentations, and I've already extracted the majority of the performance tips (...