Monthly Archives: March 2007

Learning Dutch

Posted on March 27, 2007 by peter

Someone sort of complained about the fact that my Blog is starting to look like a resume. Maybe he’s right, but I didn’t really intend it to be… This post however is about another training I attended today. The training … Continue reading →

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SamsoNOTe

Posted on March 23, 2007 by peter

A couple of weeks ago the zipper of my Samsonite laptop bag broke. Could happen you would think. Well, it could.. but something similar happened last year to the bag before. Luckily Samsonite replaced my bag again, for the third … Continue reading →

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Hibernate Shards

Posted on March 21, 2007 by peter

During the course last week Christian already mentioned the upcoming ‘Horizontal Partitioning’ extension for Hibernate. What he didn’t mention was that it would be donated by Google! Yesterday the Hibernate site displayed a new toplevel module called

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Apollo

Posted on March 19, 2007 by peter

I came across this demonstration video of Adobe’s new crossplatform runtime: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/videos/apollo_demo07/index.html Most of the stuff has been possible using Java Webstart for a couple of years now, but somehow I’ve got the feeling the people at Adobe are so … Continue reading →

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Back in business!

Posted on March 19, 2007 by peter

We’re back online! Average speed seems to be around the 8/1 , which is far under the max of 20… but still much faster then the previous connection… and much cheaper

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Switching internet provider

Posted on March 16, 2007 by peter

Pricewise our old and trusted Demon ADSL was getting a bit old. The 4/1 mbit line was quite a bit more expensive then most of the current 20/1 mbit connections; and with the new types of VOIP based plans we … Continue reading →

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Advanced Hibernate training Pt. II

Posted on March 15, 2007 by peter

Today the training continued, full speed ahead. We covered some really handy topics like: Queries, Criteria API, Filters Application design with Hibernate Performance tuning Deployment Caching I found it quite usefull to have an in-depth view on the way the … Continue reading →

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Advanced Hibernate training Pt. I

Posted on March 14, 2007 by peter

Today was the first day of the two-day Hibernate Advanced (H267) training which I’m attending. Most of the stuff discussed isn’t new to me, but hearing explanations of certain side effects by one of the Hibernate gurus (Christian Bauer, (co)author … Continue reading →

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Passed the Spring Core exam!

Posted on March 9, 2007 by peter

Today I passed the JBB Spring Core exam. It cost me 50 contribution points, and took me almost 90 minutes…. one of the most difficult exams I took. So I’m actually pleased with a score of 70% this time Successful … Continue reading →

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Home; The PS3 answer to Second Live?

Posted on March 8, 2007 by peter

The last couple of months there was a lot of buzz about Second Live. Personally I don’t really like the type of game; I like to do something competitive. I do think however that people a looking for new ways … Continue reading →

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