During my talk “The Quantum Physics of Java” at Oredev, @holly_cummins tweeted about the beer cache hierarchy. It is an analogy with which my former colleague, Richard Thompson, came up to describe the differences between memory access times. This tweet hit a nerve with more than 1.500 Retweets and more than 900 Favorites. It also inspired quite a few people to extend the analogy to other areas. Here are some of my favorites:
Nighthacking Interview
While at Oredev Steven Chin did an interview with me as part of his Nighthacking Tour.
In the video we talk a lot about my latest project Coffee4Java. It is a JSR 223-compliant ScriptEngine for CoffeeScript. You will find the code examples from the video with a more thorough explanation soon on this blog.