Monthly Archives: February 2007

Database to omni/graphviz

Posted on February 28, 2007 by peter

I was looking for a tool to reverse engineer a datamodel from a database in omnigraffle. I found one or two scripts to do this… but the installation wasn’t even worth the results. I decided to give it a go … Continue reading →

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Grafflebaffle

Posted on February 19, 2007 by peter

Ever since I received my Macbook Pro I’ve been thinking about which software to run for drawing diagrams (which is something I have to do quite often). I’m not talking elaborate UML diagrams, ‘conceptual’ drawings… the stuff you would typically … Continue reading →

Posted in osx, software development | 5 Comments

Passed the JBB Java tools exam

Posted on February 15, 2007 by peter

I managed to pass the Java SE Tools exam at Javablackbelt. As you can see on my score I had a bit of trouble with some of the questions:     #Questions #Points     TOTAL: 15 12/ 15 = … Continue reading →

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Passed the JBB Java regex exam

Posted on February 13, 2007 by peter

Passed the Java regex exam!     #Questions #Points     TOTAL: 10 10/ 10 = 100%     (80% required) Correct (+1) 10 10   Wrong (-0) 0 -0   Unanswered (0) 0 0     powered by performancing … Continue reading →

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Yahoo pipes… programming made ‘easy’?

Posted on February 11, 2007 by peter

Occasionally when some non-programmer sees program builders like code generating UML tools or, in this case Yahoo’s new pipes service, they start making jokes about how developers are going to unnecessary in the future. Normally I would just forget about … Continue reading →

Posted in ajax, ruby, web2.0 | 4 Comments

Maven2 plugin for Eclipse

Posted on February 6, 2007 by peter

Over a year ago I tried working with the maven2 plugin for eclipse. After trying some of the nifty features, like a search dialog for dependencies, I was totally fed up by the amount of resources needed by the plugin; … Continue reading →

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Performancing

Posted on February 6, 2007 by peter

I came across the ‘performancing’ plugin for Firefox, which extends  Firefox with functionality to publish items  to my blog from a nice XUL interface. For now I’m just testing to see if it is useful or not… More about performancing … Continue reading →

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Compass: guiding your applications through data

Posted on February 4, 2007 by peter

Recently we had to look for a solution to the ever growing problem of searching huge amounts of data. Requirements Initially the dataset will contain about 1.000.000 records entangled in complex ways using a lot of ternary relations. To solve … Continue reading →

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