Monthly Archives: November 2006

Reactable

Posted on November 30, 2006 by peter

A colleague of mine pointed me to UPF’s reactable site: http://mtg.upf.edu/reactable/?media During my Masters year I was in a project with a team from UPF, and we worked on something a bit similar (but, which never got finished and wasn’t … Continue reading →

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SpamKarma

Posted on November 30, 2006 by peter

I had a couple reports of people being unable to post comments on this blog. The root cause of the problem was a ill-configured anti-spam plugin (SpamKarma II). Something seems to be wrong with the captcha generator. A quick glance … Continue reading →

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To scrum or not to scrum

Posted on November 17, 2006 by peter

Yesterday evening we had a company session on the how and what of Scrum. Scrum is an agile methodology and assumes that the software development process is complicated and unpredictable and treats it as a controlled black box instead of … Continue reading →

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GPL4J

Posted on November 14, 2006 by peter

Yesterday Sun released Java under the GPLv2 license. Cinics will probable say ‘they only released a small part’, but hey, they released Java under the GPLv2 license! Included in the relicensing are Javac, the Hotspot Virtual Machine and a ‘classpath … Continue reading →

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Passed the JBB Hibernate 3 – Core exam

Posted on November 12, 2006 by peter

Rounding up my short holiday, during which my son turned 1 (which was almost entirely computer-free) I decided to take the JBB ‘Hibernate 3 – Core’ exam, and passed: Hibernate 3 – Core 2006-11-12 exam page 5 just 8 points … Continue reading →

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