This page contains links to technical articles and other things I’ve written. Please contact me if you would like me to write for your publication at contact@puredanger.com.

Articles

2009

• JavaWorld – Understanding actor concurrency, Part 1: Actors in Erlang
• JavaWorld – Understanding actor concurrency, Part 2: Actors on the JVM
• DZone – Core Java Concurrency Refcard

2008

• JavaWorld – Year In Review: What to expect in Java SE 7

Book contributions

97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know

My article “Important But Not Urgent” is on page 158.

Career 2.0

I was honored to have my experiences included in Appendix 2: A Rogue’s Gallery.

The Definitive Guide to Terracotta

I wrote the chapters on Distributed Caching and Terracotta Integration Modules and participated in the development of the book.

Some possibly true reviews:

• “I rolled it up and smoked it like a doobie.” – Willie Nelson
• “Concurrency is for suckers.” – Donald Knuth
• “This book gave me hope.” – Barack Obama
• “Great book, needs more killing and grilling.” – Ted Nugent
• “I was wrong – this is the road ahead.” – Bill Gates
• “I’ve replaced my roundhouse kick with this book.” – Chuck Norris
• “This book killed me.” – George Carlin
• “Totally replaced my left nut.” – Lance Armstrong
• “Is that a poop stain on the cover?” – Quentin Tarantino
• “Paul insisted I read this.” – David Letterman

Papers

• Information Intelligence: Metadata for Information Discovery, Access, and Integration – ACM SIGMOD (June 2005)