Archive for December, 2009

The 2010 Rose Bowl: Ohio State vs. Oregon

OSU Offense vs. Oregon Defense
Ohio State does not have a good offense. They have consistently ranked at the bottom of the national scene for the past 3-4 years. That being said they should at least be able to score 17 points on Oregon. Advantage Oregon.
OSU Defense vs. Oregon Offense
Ohio State has always had a good [...]

Hosting Update – PowerVPS

A few months back I moved everything from HostGator to PowerVPS. So far I am very happy with the results. It features great performance compared with other shared hosting solutions.

Top 25 Software Round-Up 2009

I would like to thank the following software & services for 2009. (in no particular order)

Eclipse – All my coding: Java, PHP, Ruby, Groovy. I use this tool just about every single day and can’t imaging a day without it. (unless I’m not coding)
Notepad++ – All the rest of my coding and general text editing.
AVG [...]

Book Review – The 4-Hour Workweek, Expanded and Updated

First please refer to my previous review on the first book here.
On to the newer content…I purchased this book because I was going to re-read this book. It seems like a good thing to do for the new year (reset and plan) it's also time for some much needed vacation.

Would I recommend the book? – [...]

Eclipse PermGen Space Out Of Memory Errors

I thought I would make a quick post on this as it's been plauging me for some time. To fix this problem I opened my eclipse.ini and pasted the following:
-vm
%JAVA_HOME%\jre\bin\javaw.exe
I also made some adjustments to the VMARGS.
-vmargs-Xms512m-Xmx1024m-XX:MaxPermSize=128m
Update (12/21/2009)
The launcher in Eclipse is rather tricky. You need to make sure your .exe is named eclipse.exe. You [...]