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More links from my bookmarks. Mostly Java today.

• Pro Java 6 3D Game Development
• How to Handle Java Finalization’s Memory-Retention Issues - I’ve played with these ideas in a new Java wrapper I’m writing for HDF5. Very cool. If you’re dealing with native resources inside your Java application, read this.
• Shoal - A Dynamic Java Clustering Framework
• Java Concurrency Wiki - A wiki for stuff related to JSR 166
• Concurrency JSR-166 Interest Site
• FishFarm - Shoal meets JSR 166, I think
• InfoQ: New Concurrency Features for Java SE 7
• HotSpot Internals for OpenJDK Wiki
• Monitoring and Managing Java SE 6 Platform Applications - Read this before you try to debug your next OutOfMemoryError.
• Java Tuning White Paper - Read this while we wait for Java 6u10.
• Java 6 and msvcr71.dll - I love Microsoft’s plethora of runtimes. Really.
• Kohsuke Kawaguchi’s Blog: Deep dive into assembly code from Java - Find out what the HotSpot compiler is doing
• Apache UIMA - UIMA is a component framework for analysing unstructured content such as text, audio and video.

More links coming soon.

I’m sorting through my Bookmarks. I figured I post some highlights here:

• Array broadcasting in NumPy - Read this before you design your next N-D array library
• Howto Pass a Silicon Valley Software Engineering Interview - How to make it through an interview at a place like Google, if you’re into that kind of thing
• OProfileUI - User interface for one of the nicer Linux profilers
• Updating Samba-3 with Minimal Pain and User Frustration - If you ever had the problem where upgrading Samba nuked all permissions you set up on your Windows machines, read this
• E Text Editor - The power of TextMate on Windows
• Bytecode Outline plugin for Eclipse
• jMonkeyEngine - A Java game engine
• C/Invoke - An alternative to ctypes. I quite like ctypes though.
• RabbitMQ - A message broker that implements the AMQP standard
• Scala generics for automatic differentiation - Scala is cool. Automatic differentiation is cool.

That’s enough for today. Another cleanup coming tomorrow.