This post is the first in a series of efforts to clean up my list of drafts.  This particular post is probably about a year old.  It is somewhat fitting that it is the first in my effort to clean out my drafts .  Before making each post in this series I'll edit the post to clean it up, and add new comments in italics, or footnotes).

I often spend time talking about different things with my wife, Suzanne. We both like learning, and sharing from our different experiences (in fact I'd almost call Suzanne a compulsive learner). 

I was recently struggling with an application with memory leaks1. When explaining this to Suzanne (who is currently working in a hospital setting treating a lot of kids with enuresis and encopresis)2, she pointed out that it is probably more of a case of memory constipation.

Especially in an environment with Garbage collection. The issue is that the rubbish ain’t getting out of the system.

1 - That was two years ago, in a Swing fat client.  Two years later at Ephox we getting OutOfMemoryExceptions in Java Applets↩

2 - actually now she is a full time Mum, and doing some Enjo demos on the side.↩

Related posts:

1. Memory Constipation (not memory leaks)