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ubuntu breezy to dapper upgrade
I still have my old pc sitting next to my new pc. A few months back I installed ubuntu on it. Since then it has just sat there doing nothing. Occasionally I boot it into windows to retrieve some file I...
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Operation Clambake – The Inner Secrets Of Scientology Just a link. Free speech and all. (tags: scientology) Chris Recoskie’s Blog: Language Extensibility In CDT 4.0 Nice to see that eclipse is now...
View ArticleOSGi: some criticism
Over the past few weeks, I’ve dived into the wonderful world called OSGi. OSGi is a standardized (by a consortium and soon also JCP) set of java interfaces and specifications that effectively layer a...
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How big is the Europa release? « Ian Skerrett nice stats (tags: eclipse metrics europa) Open Source Directory nice stats on oss projects (tags: metrics opensource)
View ArticleWeb application scalability
It seems infoq picked up some stuff from a comment I left on the serverside about one of my pet topics (Server side Java). The infoq article also mentions that I work at Nokia. I indeed work for Nokia...
View ArticleGoogle Android
Update: a slightly updated version of this article has been published on the Javalobby weekly news letter and on the javalobby site itself after Matthew Schmidt invited me to do so. Update 2: The...
View ArticleFrom SPLs to Open, Compositional Platforms
Below is a position paper I submitted to the upcoming Dagstuhl seminar I am attending. It’s not peer reviewed and it is not clear at this point if there will be any proceedings. So, as an experiment, I...
View ArticleUbuntu at work
After my many, not so positive, reviews you might be surprised to learn that I’m actually using it at work now. Last week, a recent Mac convert dumped his ‘old’ laptop on my desk which happened to be a...
View ArticleJava & Toys
After a few months of doing python development, which to me still feels like a straight jacket. I had some Java coding to do last week and promptly wasted a few hours checking out the latest toys,...
View Articlemacbook pro, cons and pros
Having had my new mac for a few weeks now, it is time for a review. In a nutshell, consider me switched. Overall it’s great and a huge improvement over my slow XP based laptop. However, since everybody...
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server side osgi, a myth?
Two years ago, I started using OSGI, the popular Java dependency injecting component standard, for an internal project. Fast forward to now and I have a nice set of bundles that depend on, amongst...
View ArticleJava Profiling
One of the fun aspects of being in a programmer job is the constant stream of little technical problems that require digging into. This can sometimes be frustrating but it’s pretty cool if you suddenly...
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Server side development sucks
Warning: long rant The past half year+ I’ve been ‘enjoying’ myself with lots of technical things related to working with Java, the spring framework, maven, unit testing and lots of command line stuff....
View Articlemaven: good ideas gone wrong
I’ve had plenty of time to reflect on the state of server side Java, technology, and life in general this week. The reason for all this extra ‘quality’ time was because I was stuck in an endless loop...
View ArticleEnforcing code conventions in Java
After many years of working with Java, I finally got around to enforcing code conventions in our project. The problem with code conventions is not agreeing on them (actually this is hard since...
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