Monthly Archives: June 2006

Red Hat Sued Over Hibernate ORM Patent Claim

Posted on June 30, 2006 by peter

After the big takeover of JBoss by Redhat, what else was to be expected then small companies smelling money. Slashdot features a post about Firestar filing a patent claim against Redhat claiming that they ‘have suffered and will continue to … Continue reading →

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Software testing

Posted on June 25, 2006 by peter

A short discussion with my father today made me think about environments for software testing. One of my previous projects had a full OTAP environment for testing (Dutch acronym for development, system test, functional acceptance test and production). The current … Continue reading →

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Fathersday

Posted on June 18, 2006 by peter

Today I had my first, and best fathersday ever. Most people wouldn’t even think about achieving anything at such day at all, I managed to do quite a lot! Here a short summary of my day:

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Brown belt

Posted on June 15, 2006 by peter

I just passed my Swing – Basic exam: #Questions #Points TOTAL: 20 20/ 20 = 100% (75% required) Correct (+1) 20 20 Wrong (-0) 0 -0 Unanswered (0) 0 0 Results speak for themselves! And YES I’m a brown belt … Continue reading →

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Google earth for Linux!

Posted on June 13, 2006 by peter

Google’s earth, a 3d interface to the planet, is now availlable for linux (natively) as well. Now if only they would include higher resolution pictures of my area (and yes, I wouldn’t mind the 3d building outlining either ): But … Continue reading →

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Google sync for Firefox

Posted on June 9, 2006 by peter

I know, Google is evil. But they now offer a great extension for Firefox called Google Browser Sync. It allows you to sync your Firefox profile (bookmarks, stored passwords, history) with a cenrtralized service; a roaming browser profile! When I … Continue reading →

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Streamium!

Posted on June 5, 2006 by peter

Last week I devised a cunning plan to get myself a Streamium SL300i unit. I won’t go into details concerning the plan, but it included a travelsleeper, my dad, a superb performance of the Stripe bigband (featuring my dad playing … Continue reading →

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