Check Tree

I have created a new jQuery plugin for check boxes in a tree.  I have posted it to jsfiddle.  If you wish to try it out and let me know what you think.  Comments are always welcome.

Just fiddling' around...

Notespad++, chrome, and chrome debugger.

For quite some time now these tools have been my staple of choice when it comes to writing Javascript.  About a month ago I ran across the website jsfiddle.


jsfiddle is a free online service in which you to create sandbox instances or fiddles.  What it give you is a screen which captures your HTML, css, Javascript, and renders it all in one view.  It supports many of the now-a-day javascript frameworks, such as jQuery, Mootools, etc or no framwork at all for you purists out there.  If this is not enough to make the switch, the site allows you to fork your designs.


Lets say I'm writing a component, and BOOM... I have a new thought, re factoring is in the works, however, I don't want to loose my current design (sentimental reasons).  Using my old method it would be save, copy/paste, rename, reopen.  A lot of wasted time and hopefully, something or one hasn't come to interrupt my new found enlightenment.  jsfiddle is much simpler, just Fork my current design and start a new with my re factoring, saving it in the cloud.


I know it's a stretch but the only caveat that I have found it will not allow you to upload any resources, for what ever reason.


If you haven't already it's worth the few minutes to sign up, and fiddle with some code.

Java Memory and Performance

After deploying an application to Tomcat then you receive that nasty line:

Perm Gen....

Well, after a while I started to get really sick of restarting, so I did what every other developer would do ... Google.  So I put together a personal reference of various Java Performance links, that I found to be helpful.  Hopefully, they will be of some help to you as well.

Fight Tomcat's OutOfMemoryError PermGen - by Mark Michaelis

Tuning Garbage Collection Outline
http://www.petefreitag.com/articles/gctuning/

Oracle Java
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/gc-tuning-5-138395.html

Java Blog
http://blogs.sun.com/watt/resource/jvm-options-list.html

Java JVM GC, PermGen, and Memory Options
http://www.brokenbuild.com/blog/2006/08/04/java-jvm-gc-permgen-and-memory-options/