Agile and Programming
Jan 30 2006
When I bought my EOS 350D some months back I knew it was going to be an expensive hobby, but I was thinking I would have to buy lenses and a flash. Stuff like that. What I didn’t consider was that the CCD chip in SLR cameras are voulnerable to dust. On old SLRs you’d [...]
Jan 30 2006
So, finally it’s here. The next version of TopLink. I should have known something was up when the beta docs suddenly disappeared. Amongst things I’ve been waiting for are cache time-to-live. Other features would be OXM, JMX monitoring, EJB3 and Unit of Work flushing.
Jan 18 2006
Been running around fixing my tickets for The Serverside Symposium Las Vegas the last days. Stopping by San Francisco on the way, going to be an excellent trip. It’s a good thing they’re holding another one in Barcelona though. Shorter, cheaper travel with a lot less jetlag should make it a very good option.
Jan 11 2006
I’m a big fan of Eric Evans book Domain Driven Design and so is Martin Fowler. As I was reading his FluentInterface article I also stumbled upon his explanations of Evans classifications within the domain model. It’s a good explanation of some of the basics for Evans DDD.
The fluent interface article is intriguing too. As [...]
Jan 10 2006
So it’s been a couple of days since I upgraded to WordPress 2.0. Nothing really big, a bit slicker admin interface. WYSIWG editor and integrated spam plugin. I tried posting some code today though, and it all went bananas. Even the “edit HTML source” didn’t help since it removes < and > signs in between. [...]
Jan 10 2006
I knew this, but got reminded when I stumbled over this page at VMWare. They have released their VMWare player for free, and there are a bunch of Linux images available here. Downloading my trusty old Debian as well as Ubuntu and Fedora right now. Thought I’d just check out how they were coming along. [...]
Jan 09 2006
So now it’s released. For real this time. Not like last time. Go to http://geronimo.apache.org to get ut.
Jan 05 2006
A smal interview with some of the guys working on the RI of Glassfish persistence here. I’ll have to check it out some day. It’ll be interesting to see how complete the open source version of TopLink is.
Jan 03 2006
Good summary of changes in the 2.5 Servlet spec here. Some interesting, but nothing that will make a really big difference as long as you’re using a MVC framework I think.