The WordPress plugin contest results were just announced by Mark Ghosh. We sponsored a copy of Translator Pro 5.0 plugin for the competition. The winners are:

Java is used either for long running server side applications / application servers or for running short scripts. Let's look at how you can speed-up both these type of applications.

I have opened this blog for testing. Now any spammer can get to my moderation queue. I am trapping the spam comments for our Comment Guard plugin. So all spammers are welcome to spam me!

I got over 2000 comments in my moderation queue, all spam. I was testing Akismet and it appears it is overloaded for quite sometime now and putting literally every comment in moderation queue (happens when it fails or when the connectivity to Akismet fails). Also whenever I am trying to moderate my queue, it is literally hanging the whole blog! And it never comes back. After I disabled Akismet, things are lightning fast again.

There is a minor-war going on in Sun Alumni mailing list and elsewhere where the common misconception: "Java is slow" is surfacing again and again, much to the dismay of knowledgeable Java developers who have known for ages that Java is fast even compared to C++ and has been so for several years. All this re-surfaced because Sun decided to change its ticker symbol to JAVA (previously it was SUNW). All of this is terribly frustrating to Java developers who take pride in Java and are well aware of its capabilities because they leverage it every day. So let's rest this myth to rest once and for all, shall we?