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Today the autobuild failed reporting us that our trial license of clover had expired. Instead of buying a $1500 license I decided to check cobertura.

Last friday I had a talk with the head of my unit about my future career. We talked a bit about Sun Certifications (yes, I will FINALLY have to get a programmers certificate). But he also introduced me to something called ‘Java Black Belt‘:
JavaBlackBelt is a community for Java & open source skills assessment. […]

Last week I spend some time on the basics for securing the myfaces/spring/ibatis application I’m working on. Since the default j2ee container managed security isn’t particulary flexible I decided to have a look at Acegi.

As you might have noticed I finally replaced the default wordpress header image with something more personal. The image used to create the header from was taken by me; it is a close-up of my beloved espresso machine The picture was manipulated using the Gimp (2.2.8).
(I will probably have to write a post about the […]

Today I bought myself a new book: Rapid J2EE development - ‘An adaptive foundation for enterprise applications’ by Alan Monnox.
The book covers iterative development, model-driven architecture (MDA), code generation tools, aspect-oriented programming (AOP), test-driven development and much more!
Most of the stuff discussed isn’t new to me, but the amazon reader reviews mentioned:
Think of this […]

Serverside reported ADF to be donated to the Apache Software Foundation… can’t wait to have all those components availlable in MyFaces!
[from the announcement]
Why should J2EE / Web application developers care?
This is going to give a boost to the JavaServer Faces technology as well as the MyFaces project. The donated code comes with great functionality out […]

You might have noticed a short outage today… at the end this seemed to have been caused by the fact that someone updated the DNS settings with my new settings (I renamed the virtualhost I use for my database server).

Today my system overheated…. and died while doing some heavy compiling.  Somehow this totally managed to screw up my harddisk (reiserfs). After downloading RIP
I tried to fix the problems using the fsck reiser utilities… but it kept on complaining, and telling me to buy a new harddisk. Since I figured reinstalling ubuntu was going to […]

Brainstorming a bit on creating e-mail templates I remembered I had seen people use Velocity to do this. Together with Spring it seemed ideal for the job!

Last week I tried Spring IDE 1.2.6 which is basically a set of plugins to support Spring development in Eclipse. The IDE provides excellent features like autocompletion (on class and property level) and a graphical view of the bean stack.
A big downside is the stabillity. Allthough some colleagues don’t seem to have problems, my Eclipse […]