Dazed & Confused

So Maven 2.0 is released. Too much work migrating my existing project I guess, but it’ll be a safe bet for my next one.

FireFox has reached 100 million downloads. Congrats. It just sucks it’s been acting up with me lately. It keeps hanging and crashing several times a day, even on different machines. So I’m giving Opera a spin, and hoping FireFox will get stable on the next release. As one of the tools I use the most [...]

No not really… But I found this link…

My blog is worth $5,080.86.How much is your blog worth?

I went to a panel debate on SOA yesterday arranged by the Norwegian JUG in Oslo. It had a nice composition of 7 people and with a lot of interaction from the public they kept going for almost three hours.
Of course no one could really agree on what SOA was, but I think one [...]

After a short test with Google Reader, I’m back to Bloglines. I’m more effective on that, but probably miss more. The main point is really to spend as little time as possible finding the good stuff each day within an acceptable level of articles I miss.

NHibernate 1.0 has been released.

When RSS feeds first appeared I didn’t think I’d use it much. My tests with some early RSS readers that notified me when it found something new just drove me nuts. I was unable to concentrate on anything, I constantly checked it for new items, and of course when it popped up.
Bloglines turned out to [...]

There has been some posts lately on the Domain Driven Design group about Hibernate vs. TopLink. One of the Oracle guys pointed to this discussion on the Oracle forums discussing some of the differences. Read the whole thread for the big picture.

Just a note to self. Pete Freitag has a page with 20 css tricks here.

A video from Eric Evans presentation “Three Practical Steps Toward Domain-Driven Design” at JavaZone is available here. I’ve read the book and it did clear up some things for me, especially on bounded contexts.
A full list of available presentations and videos from the JUG in Norway can be found here.
Update: They removed the videos for [...]