Roller survives the Slashdot effect
Nerd news site Slashdot caught wind of the JBoss Group's slimey business tactics, linked to three weblogs on JRoller, and proved that Roller can survive the Slashdot effect. This says a lot about Roller and the technology stack that supports Roller including Tomcat, Struts, Velocity, Hibernate, and especially OSCache. Via Rick Ross.
Powerbook vs. Windows desktop performance
After reading Matt's post, I was a little concerned about Powerbook performance. I'm not concerned anymore. On my Powerbook (1.5GHz, 1.25GB RAM) a full Roller build takes 53 seconds. On my Windows XP desktop box (2.4GHz, 1GB RAM), a full Roller build takes 45 seconds. I don't even notice the difference.
I have to retract the bad things that I said about Eclipse and Fire. I've been using Eclipse 3.0 M8 on MacOS for a couple of weeks now and, while it is not pretty or as snappy as the Windows version, it is definitely usable. Kudos to the Eclipse and SWT developers. I stuck with Fire and it has really grown on me. I use it for IRC, AIM, and YahooIM and I enjoy it as much as I do Trillian on Windows. I'd like to see more IRC features, but that's my only complaint.