Dazed & Confused

Well. A year is over. A new one begins. I’m sure it will all be different in the year to come.
It was my first year of blogging, and according to my stat system (active from May) these are the numbers:

Unique visitors: 18000
Visits: 31000
Visits through search engines: 11000
Links from other pages: 12000

I’m doing a [...]

There’s a good and extensive article here about processor performance development, and why concurrency will be increasingly important in the future.
Via Rickard Öberg.

Another good article with J2EE best practices here. There are heaps of other articles on the same theme, but this one tries to take a little bit of a different angle. Nice addition.

Mike Spille is a bit wound up over Prevayler. Read his article here. I should spark some reactions.

The slides from this years JavaPolis is available here. Should have been there. Some interesting ideas, and nice to see on them. Check out the EJB 3.0 slides by Linda DeMichiel and the Hibernate 3 slides by Gavin King. King launches the idea of unifying the many context in an J2EE application (request, session, transaction [...]

Found this tip today and tested it out. Wow. If you got some bandwidth it should make page loading a lot faster. I’m not sure how it affects the servers, but we won’t notice yet will we.

Article here. Havn’t read it yet, store for reading.

The ServerSide announced that Hibernate 3 is going beta. Looks good. The roadmap lists the steps forward to EJB3 support.
We’re using TopLink now. It would be interesting to test Hibernate in my next project to see how they measure up.

Oracle has an article on how TipLink intergrates with Spring Framework here.

I havn’t looked much under the hood of Eclipse, but it seems to me to be one of the most extensive and flexible open source products out there. I am really impressed by how it supports plugins, as well as their internal update manager. One example pf customization can be found here with creating a [...]