Dazed & Confused

Nice tutorial here.
Via JavaBiN forums.

Magnum photos has some great photo essays online here. Some powerful images and good stories. Go check it out.

Gavin King answers a users questions on when to use conversational state in Seam here. We’re going to do some work with Spring WebFlow and the same principles should apply there.

IBM has a decent article about semantics in SOA here.

“”There’s extra ignorance in SOA because we haven’t done it before” – Gregor Hophe
Do it small and do it agile, you can design as much as you want but it’ll be something else in the end.
Read the short article here.
Via TSS.NET

I’m not a big fan of Oracle. I’ve had my fair share of problems with their products, but I’ve mentioned before that I think they’re on the right track. As one example you now got deb packages for Oracle Express Edition. Check out a tutorial here.
Update: Another blog that also includes some details about [...]

I came across a new Eclipse-plugin today called Coverlipse. I’ve just started using it and I must say, it’s quite good and informative. When I run my JUnit tests through Coverlipse it displays an icon in the left margin indicating wether or not the line was tested by JUnit. This makes it easier to patch [...]

This is how I installed my D-Link DWL-G520+ wlan card on Fedora Core 5 (FC5). This card has Texas Instruments chipset and needs the acx111 driver.

Follow the instructions found at the acx100.sourceforge.net homepage.
Add “alias wlan0 acx” at the botom of the file /etc/modprobe.conf
Check that “chkconfig –list NetworkManager” says “ n” under runlevel [...]

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