Happy New Year all

Thank you everyone who read my blog, especially those who gave feedback. It encourages me to write me more.

I hope everyone has a Happy New Year.

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  1. Javier1 January 2012 at 01:11

    Happy New Year to you too.

    It has been a pleasure to read your blog during this year. I've learnt a lot.

    Please, keep on writting ;)

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  2. Markus Eisele1 January 2012 at 14:09

    Hi Peter,

    Thanks for a great Year ful of interesting posts!
    Keep up the good work!

    Thanks,
    Markus

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  3. Anonymous2 January 2012 at 11:54

    keep up !!!

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  4. Peter Stacey3 January 2012 at 18:25

    Thanks Peter. Happy New Year to you also and all the best for a prosperous year of blogging ahead

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  5. Chad Brewbaker4 January 2012 at 16:22

    Happy New Year! Keep up the good work!

    Also, if you need a topic... PermGen profiling :)

    Probably not an issue you run into much with high speed trading, but when you are running multiple vmware/virtualbox instances and each is running a glassfish app ... PermGen taming becomes a serious concern.

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