Archive for May, 2004

May 31 2004

J# and Java interoperability

Published by under Java

Ted Neward shows how the J# implementation of Serializable is compatible with the jdk 1.1 implementation. It’s not compatible with 1.3 or 1.4, but that migh come at a later time. Cool.
He mentions it even means that .NET can tap into EJB containers. Some might find that a bit scary, but it works the [...]

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May 31 2004

Eclipse 3.0 RC1

Published by under Java

So it seems Eclipse 3.0 RC1 is released. Test and report bugs, final release is only about a month away. Download at Eclipse site.

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May 30 2004

Good article about Pixar

Published by under General

I’m soo looking forward to The Incredibles. Just a pity it’s half a year away. Found this article at wired:
Wired 12.06: Welcome to Planet Pixar

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May 30 2004

Facing your own mistakes

Published by under Personal

The New York Times editors has published a piece describing some of their failures when reporting from Iraq.
I can’t say I’m shocked some of the information was wrong, but I really respect them for looking back, admitting and learning from their mistakes.

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May 29 2004

Exim config for high loads

Published by under OS tricks

As I mentioned in this post I’m running Exim with Spamassassin and ClamAV. Because we’re running on a virtual machine the loads could get quite high because other VMs on the same physical host was using too much resources. Loads could get as high as 20 on a 15minute average. Beeing the great guys [...]

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May 29 2004

Apache Rewrite for changing my blog system

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I’ve just switched to WordPress, and from my stats I can see a lot of sites still checking my old RSS feed. So I set up Apache with a rewrite rule to redirect to my new RSS feed. Works like a charm. No rocket science, but you might find it useful:

RewriteEngine On
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May 29 2004

C# FAQ by the MS Team

Published by under .NET

This one is pretty good. Can get a good insight into the design of the language.
http://blogs.msdn.com/CSharpFAQ

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May 29 2004

Eclipse conditional breakpoints

Published by under Java

This is a nice feature. Check out the details.

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May 28 2004

The day after tomorrow

Published by under Personal

Just saw the movie. Good fun, but nothing surprising really. The plot is so predictable, you know what’s going to happen after seeing the first five minutes. Alright 20. After a little while the main character goes on a quest. And you KNOW he will make it.
Luckily, I hadn’t read much about it before I [...]

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May 28 2004

Another one on hiring

Published by under Development

http://bossavit.com/thoughts/archives/000740.html
Quite different view of how to hire.

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