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I am a very opinionated software engineer. Well I'm a very opinionated person in general. I work for eBay/Marktplaats.nl, but everything written here is my own crazy ideas and not my employer's. This text might have some similarities to the disclaimer found at fupeg.blogspot.com.
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Monthly Archives: October 2007
Anterior Uveitis
Due to the fact that I was “optically challenged” for the past week it might have been a bit silent on my weblog. Since I’m still recovering I’m trying to keep time behind my computer as short as possible. Normally … Continue reading
Posted in health
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Book: JBoss Seam – Simplicity and Power beyond Java EE
Yesterday the mailman brought the copy of “JBoss Seam – Simplicity and Power beyond Java EE” by Michael Juntao Yuan and Thoma Heute which I asked Finalist to order for me. I managed to read the first two chapters. My … Continue reading
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Grails – 1.0-RC1
Two days ago Grails reached the 1.0 milestone; the first release candidate is out. New Features inlude: GORM features ORM DSL for advanced Mappings Support for easy to use Filters Tag Library Improvements – Namespaces, body variables, page scope, improved … Continue reading
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Starting with JBoss Seam (using seam-gen)
After two JSF-free years (I didn’t really enjoy myfaces at that time) I decided to get my head around Seam and JSF. My next project will consist of rebuilding a Delphi application to a multiuser Seam application; so let’s have … Continue reading
Connecting JConsole to a Java process: the missing -D option
Once in a while I tend to use JConsole for basic profiling of a Java process. Somehow I always forget which flag I need to set to enable remote connections to a process. And yes, I know the option is … Continue reading
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Oracle buying BEA?
Various sources are reporting on Oracle putting in an offer to buy BEA for a whopping 6.7 billion dollar. I did some projects using WebLogic, WebLogic portal and WebLogic workshop but was never really a fan of BEA. I do … Continue reading
Posted in bea, oracle
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Behavior Driven Development
Some months ago I visited Aslak Hellesøys’ RSpec presentation at RubyEnRails 2007. I was really intrigued by some of the concepts introduced by RSpec. After checking out the way testing/TDD works in Grails I just had to see if my … Continue reading
Posted in bdd, rails, rspec, ruby
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JBoss Masterclass 2007, Rome
Last couple of days I was attending the JBoss Masterclass in Rome. I learned a lot and met a let of interesting people. And I enjoyed being in Italy as well. I’ll be doing a full round-up (in Dutch) on … Continue reading
Posted in jboss, masterclass, rome
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Grails and tests – Part II: Testing dynamic taglibs using XmlSlurper
A couple of days ago I wrote my first post on TDD using Grails. Now let’s move on to something more interesting: testing dynamic taglibs. In another post I showed how to create a simple tag. Which looked like this: … Continue reading
Posted in grails, groovy, testing
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LazyList based on the Google Collections Library
In my previous post I mentioned implementing the Google Collections counterpart of the commons-collections LazyList. I’ll refer to the Google Collections Library as GCL from now on. The LazyList decorates another List to create objects in the list on demand. … Continue reading
Posted in java
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