Some development teams I work with have been reporting an issue where the JVM runs out of memory during deployment of an application using our standard heap size settings (initial 2 GB and maximum 2 GB). When they changed the initial heap size from 2 GB to 512 MB, the no longer receive the OutOfMemory error. To understand what’s happening, continue on. (more…)

Chris Coyier found a great visualization of sorting algorithms created by David R. Martin, an Assistant Professor at Boston College. If you’re new to sorting algorithms and Big O notation, check out the textbooks he references in addition to enjoying the fantastic visual representation.

Jeff Atwood quoted an interesting story that relates to the benefit of repetition and reinforces the point well here.