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h1. Welcome!

I'm, *Jerry Kuch*, one of the developers (along with [[User:marc|Marc]] and [[User:alex|Alex]]) of [[SWiK]].  I've worked on many things including operating systems, multimedia, security and crypto software, niche embedded stuff, broadcast video, a couple of web applications, mathematical programming environments (computer algebra and statistics mainly), virtual machines, network appliances and likely some other things that aren't coming to mind just now.

Recently I've been working in and around:

* The Java virtual machine
  * Functional programming languages, particularly targeting the JVM
  * Statistical computing, R and SPLUS
  * Haskell, type systems, monads, concurrency
  * A smidgeon of Ruby, Rails and scripting on the side.

I've recently been working on a couple  of projects at once, but am now reaching the point that I can take a bit of a breather and look at something else.  But I'm nearly always open to yakking about anything interesting, with somebody interesting.

I'm usually easy to reach at jerrykuch AT gmail.com.

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Welcome!

I’m, Jerry Kuch, one of the developers (along with Marc and Alex) of SWiK. I’ve worked on many things including operating systems, multimedia, security and crypto software, niche embedded stuff, broadcast video, a couple of web applications, mathematical programming environments (computer algebra and statistics mainly), virtual machines, network appliances and likely some other things that aren’t coming to mind just now.

Recently I’ve been working in and around:

The Java virtual machine
Functional programming languages, particularly targeting the JVM
Statistical computing, R and SPLUS
Haskell, type systems, monads, concurrency
A smidgeon of Ruby, Rails and scripting on the side.

I’ve recently been working on a couple of projects at once, but am now reaching the point that I can take a bit of a breather and look at something else. But I’m nearly always open to yakking about anything interesting, with somebody interesting.

I’m usually easy to reach at jerrykuch AT gmail.com.

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Exciting New Java Design Methodology

Tuesday, May 06, 2008

I’ve been discovering this one in library code a lot lately: Race Condition Driven Design

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From Some Otherwise Very Straight-laced Release Notes

Monday, April 14, 2008

This morning, I stumbled across the following while reading the otherwise straight-laced release notes in a README file for a project which had Mavenized its build a few versions ago, only to abandon it in a more recent release:

“Remove Maven pom.xml crap. Its a pile of dog shit. Don’t ever use it.”

I knew I wasn’t the world’s biggest Maven fan. That I have such eloquent competition in my smallness is wonderful.

User:jerryk: Making Software And Related Things

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Suckers

Friday, April 04, 2008

From the Wall Street Journal…

“The stock market is currently trading right where it was nine years ago. In fact, adding in dividends and taking inflation into account, stock market investors have lost money since 1999. The extended US-stock underperformance puts the current stock market in very bad company: the 1930s with its terrible unemployment, and the 1970s with its double-digit inflation. In both of those periods, stocks would rally strongly only to fade. It took well over a decade in each case….before stocks moved lastingly upward.”

It’s not stated whether the implosion of the US dollar has been factored in along with dividends and inflation… I would guess not.

In pictures…

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Cache Coherency, Memory Models and Related Things on Popular Architectures

Thursday, March 13, 2008

Some references on cache coherency and memory models, that recently came up on the Java concurrency mailing list. The below is based on the original list is by Jaroslav Sevcik with slight additions…

Intel Itanium: A Formal Specification of Intel Itanium Processor Family Memory Ordering

Intel IA-64 (x86), AMD:

Sparc TSO: The SPARC Architecture Manual, Version v9

Java Memory Model:

Miscellaneous: