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Kirk Pepperdine Maintains One-Size-Fits-All does Not Apply

Specifics about performance tuning and cloud computing figure importantly in the work of Java Champion Kirk Pepperdine, who told Janice J. Heiss that generic advice is useful but only if it is evaluated in terms of particular situations. “Performance tuning,” Pepperdine contends, “is still an art where limits are stretched and one goes to places never gone to before. It’s an experimental and creative realm with no one-size-fits-all answers to performance problems. It’s highly localized.”

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Interviews with Joshua Bloch, Tom Ball, and Masood Mortazavi

As if to refute the notion that developers have no capacity for humor, Janice J. Heiss caps off her four-part series on developer life with “Favorite and Funny Code,” amusing anecdotes from three luminaries in the field: Joshua Bloch, Tom Ball and Masood Mortazavi.

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13 Developers Present as Many Approaches to Writing Code

Part 3 of “The Developer Insight Series: The Process of Writing Code” by Janice J. Heiss considers (in her own words), developers reflecting “…on the actual process of writing code, how it happens, what it feels like, and how they do it.” Parts 1 and 2, covered in System News as “Dumb Code Has a Place in the Developers’ World,” concerned practiced developers offering their advice on writing good code.

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Some Expert Views

Expressing strikingly similar opinions on the virtues of “dumb code,” four Java developers interviewed by Janice J. Heiss in her “Developer Insight Series, Part 1″ discuss the importance of not striving for elegance but simplicity instead. Another five experts offer their views in “The Developer Insight Series, Part 2: Code Talk.”

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UK Java Champion Alan Williamson Expresses Some Cautious Notes

Editor of the Cloud Computing Journal and the first-named Java Champion in the UK, Alan Williamson shares his views on the cloud with Sun staff writer Janice J. Heiss in an interview entitled “Seeding Cloud Computing: A Conversation with Java Champion Alan Williamson.”

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