Incredible news from VMworld 2008 outlines a completely new way of building fault tolerant systems, using VMware virtual machines in such a way that you actually run two instances of the same server at the same time, the other instance is just not connected to the network.
Check out this great blog entry outlining the functionality (and some caveats). Seems like a treat if it Actually Works[tm], will need to check it out.
Year: 2008
VisualVM
So Oracle (née BEA) JRockit has Mission Control, anyone with rapstar money to use has CA Wily Introscope and everyone else had Sun JConsole, which did not console (sorry) much the developer wanting to profile their application during runtime.
Therefore I was very happy to notice (belatedly) VisualVM tool from Sun, which will obviously replace the monitoring functionality of JConsole. Looks nice and is extendible, let’s see where they will go with it.
Firefox 3 Download Pledge
I have been using the Firefox 3 since early betas and it is a solid, well performing browser. Especially like the fact that the zooming Now Actually Works[tm]. Therefore it was a no-brainer to make the Download Pledge. Go do it and be a part of a world record.
