Bookmarks for 6 Aug 2009
- The Motion/Captured Interview: An hour with Terry Gilliam, part one – HitFix.com
Interview with Terry Gilliam (film interview terry_gilliam ) - JFXtras Test and FEST Unite! « Steve on Java
JavaFX testing framework: “I put together the JFXtras Test 0.5 Release today. This release includes full support for JavaFX 1.2, new comparison expectations (thanks to Peter Pilgrim!), and asynchronous testing support.” (javafx testing frameworks ) - Google code cloud punts on-demand embarrassment • The Register
On Google’s failure to detail App Engine’s six hour outage: “Let’s say that you were tasked with maintaining the computing platform for your company’s web services. After six hours of service outage, your supervisor asked you for an explanation of what happened, and you follow Google’s lead. You say, “There was a serious issue with one or more of our computers.” Ass, meet curb.Almost a year ago, Amazon’s S3 storage service suffered roughly eight hours of downtime. Amazon’s postmortem on the failure included details about specific bugs in their message passing system, and how their wonderfully scalable system could also scale errors quite wonderfully. Amazon identified an oversight in their own code with respect to error checking, so as a customer, you could be sure that somebody is on that shit.Google, on the other hand, doesn’t feel like telling anyone exactly why GFS failed. Was it a bug in the code? Was it a traffic issue? Did Augustus Gloop fall into the chocolate river?” (google amazon cloud_computing management app_engine )
- Background Tasks in JavaFX // FX Experience
“The Task class in the javafx.async represents the basic programming model for all asynchronous tasks in JavaFX and should form the base class for all such background Tasks.” (javafx programming concurrency )
