Monthly Archives: February 2006

Hibernate training

Posted on February 23, 2006 by peter

Today a colleague of mine and I conducted a Hibernate training for a medium sized Dutch software house. My part of the training was helping with the hands-on exercises and giving a presentation on the basics of HQL , the … Continue reading →

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Nested interfaces for grouping constants

Posted on February 21, 2006 by peter

For the project we’re working on we can not use Java 5; customer demands. This means we can’t use the enum type to group constants. A colleague of mine pointed out that nested interfaces can provide very similar results: public … Continue reading →

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Top ten reasons Geeks make good fathers

Posted on February 19, 2006 by peter

I found a nice post about why geeks make good fathers. This of coarse includes Lego ™, video games and gadgets..! And yes I fully agree with the write-up, since this is what I do AND this is what my … Continue reading →

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RADRails

Posted on February 18, 2006 by peter

In my previous post I mentioned a lack of tooling support for ruby. It seems I might have been wrong! When looking for a Ruby synthax highlighting plugin for eclipse I found Radrails. RadRails is an integrated development environment for … Continue reading →

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Java vs. Ruby

Posted on February 17, 2006 by peter

Today the serverside featured a post with the eye-catching title ‘Java: Dead Like COBOL, Not Like Elvis?‘ The interview linked from the post is pretty negative about Java and Ruby on Rails is mostly used as an example of how … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu 5.10 breezy & Gruff

Posted on February 17, 2006 by peter

Gruff is a charting library for Ruby which can be used alone or with Ruby on Rails. I tried using it a couple of times, but couldn’t get it to work. The error was non-informative at best: uninitialized constant Gruff … Continue reading →

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Ruby workshop

Posted on February 17, 2006 by peter

Tonight I attended the Ruby workshop presented by two of my colleagues. It was a bit more advanced than generating Rails stuff and focussed on interesting Ruby features like: mixins closures operator overloading usage of the missing method method breakpoints … Continue reading →

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MS IE on Linux

Posted on February 15, 2006 by peter

Browser requirements for the project I’m working on include MS IE >= 5. To bad, but true. Since this implies that we test the developed application in IE I previously used VMWare (good stuff!) to do this. But having different … Continue reading →

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Oracle buys Sleepycat

Posted on February 15, 2006 by peter

In a previous post I mentioned ‘rumors’ about Oracle buying open source projects. Yesterday one of the rumors was confirmed, Oracle bought Sleepycat! Nothing concrete about JBoss and Zend yet….

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Tutoring…

Posted on February 13, 2006 by peter

Today I started tutoring my sister…. at the end of the course she needs to be capable of writing a search engine for one of the subjects in her CKI Bachelor/Masters; in Java.

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