mproctor

Spineless politicians back out of the "Religious Hatred Law"

mproctor — 2006-02-05T20:01:33+00:00

I was very pleased with the original form of the "Religious hatred law". For years I have had to put up with the ridicule of my beliefs, the belittling and humiliating depiction of our leaders and the constant mockery of that which I hold most sacred to my heart. Q&A: Religious hatred law

Dell Delivery Idiocy

mproctor — 2005-10-15T13:13:01+00:00

Dell have a completely idiotic delivery process that makes it actually impossible to deliver something to the home user.

Drools joins JBoss

mproctor — 2005-10-13T14:28:55+00:00

The Drools move to JBoss really is a good thing for everyone, with no down sides, key Drools developers were consulted throughout the process and all are more than happy with the situation.

Linux Advocate for SMEs

mproctor — 2005-05-19T17:23:34+00:00

I'm a Linux fan, Mandriva (previously Mandrake), I run all my home server stuff with Linux. I like the transparanecy and control I have over my Linux setup and ofcourse its free :) I spent time learning linux by initially building Linux From Scratch. So you would think I would be a big Linux advocate.

Drools Testimonies Needed

mproctor — 2005-05-15T03:03:08+00:00

As we close in to finalising Drools 2.0 now would be a great time to help Drools. How can you do this?

Drools 2.0-rc1 with IKVM

mproctor — 2005-05-08T04:27:32+00:00

Now that Drools 2.0 has stabalised I decided to checkout IKVM to see if Drools would run on .net.

Drools at JavaPolis 2004

mproctor — 2005-01-11T20:10:42+00:00

JavaPolis was my first Drools presentation, in-fact I think THE first public Drools presentation, and had about thirty attendees. The slot allocated to me was a BOF, Birds of a Feather, these are technical sessions for emerging technologies, they are less formal and a good place to cut your teeth. I shared the slot with Bart Strubbe from JCS, who was very charming and a great chaperone being a JavaPolis veteran.

Primitive Map Implementation and Benchmark Comparisons

mproctor — 2004-11-15T00:05:56+00:00

During some bug fixing of the Drools' Rete implementation I discoverd the need for an Object repository for fact retrieval via the FactHandle id. Being painfully aware of how much HashMaps are killing Drools performance and creating issues with garbage collection I searched for alternative implementations - pcj, trove and colt, commons-collections does not offer a primitive map - and benchmarked those against my own specialised implementation - the results, especially for memory, proved interesting.