Monthly Archives: December 2006

SOHO NAS

Posted on December 29, 2006 by peter

Today the mailman brought me the NAS device I recently ordered. It is a nice and shiny Synology DS-101J with a 320GB disk: The device will replace the recently broken WinXP Desktop machine for all its network related storage and … Continue reading →

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New laptop!

Posted on December 20, 2006 by peter
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JRuby evening @ Stroom Hotel Rotterdam

Posted on December 20, 2006 by peter

Yesterday evening I went to the JRuby talk organized by Finalist at the Stroom Hotel in Rotterdam. The presentation (by JRuby gurus Charles O. Nutter and Tom Enebo) was quite similar to the presentation they gave at Javapolis but with … Continue reading →

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Reminder: JRuby talk tomorrow!

Posted on December 18, 2006 by peter

(blatant but really important clone from remvee) Both JRuby super hero’s, Charles and Thomas, will be talking about JRuby tomorrow at Stroom Hotel in Rotterdam. Come and find out why having a Ruby interpreter on the Java platform is a … Continue reading →

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Javapolis 2006

Posted on December 15, 2006 by peter

The last three days I’ve been attending the Javapolis 2006 conference. Wednesday December 13th Keynotes (barely made it due to traffice jams) Typical oracle (Duncan Mills) demoing of their ajaxed suites, esb orchestration etc. To much, to fast, to Oracle … Continue reading →

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Java 6 is final

Posted on December 11, 2006 by peter

Today Sun released Java Standard Edition 6. Although I haven’t had time to test-drive it the feature list looks promising. Amongst the new features the scripting language support (JSR 223) stands out. Next to a new framework and API for … Continue reading →

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Lucene Workshop @ Amis

Posted on December 8, 2006 by peter

Yesterday I attended the Lucene workshop at Amis, and NO I am NOT thinking about switching, it’s all about knowledge… and this time I took the opportunity to invite the attending Amis developers to the JRuby seminar by Charles Nutter … Continue reading →

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