Archive for February, 2006

New project

Yesterdag I had an interview at a major Dutch broadcaster for the secondment (=detachering?) position of Technical Lead / Architect for a huge Web 2.0/AJAX extension on their existing webapplication(s). I wasn’t the only one in the race; Ordina had sent a possible candidate as well.
But guess what, today I recieved the good news! They […]

Orange belt!

YES!!! Today I succeeded my Java SE Intermed exam with a score of 97%, which means I missed only one question:
StringBuffer methods are all synchronized.
true or false?
and, yes, woohoo I got my Orange belt.

Today I passed the JDBC Basic and Hibernate Certif exams!

JDBC Basic
02-27-2006
exams page

Hibernate Certif
02-27-2006
exams page

RAD Race ruby

In a previous post I mentioned two Finalist teams participating in the RAD Race event. The following post (Dutch!) contains the comments of the Ruby/Rails team on the ir results:
http://rubyenrails.nl/articles/2006/02/27/rad-race-nog-niet-gewonnen
Seems Ruby/Rails did very well! We’ll have to wait another month for final results… I’ll keep you posted!

Java vs. Ruby

After finding out about technorati (from the site: Technorati is the authority on what’s going on in the world of weblogs) by clicking the icon on the railsguru site I discoverd something really neat.

DWR

Tomorrow I will hear whether I’m going to be the architect/team-lead on a major web 2.0 project, therefor I decided to have a look at the current state of some ajax frameworks. Since I have used prototype on a couple of projects before I decided to have a look around to get to know some […]

Frappr - DukeKids

Using frappr people can generate maps containing members of a specific community. Someone decided to start a map containg Java (Black Belt) developers! Not to many people in the Netherlands yet though.

Coincidence?

Today we had a company ‘borrel’ (Dutch for getting some drinks in a pub together..) and a nice dinner. No specific reason. After the drinks we went to a restaurant for dinner… and gues where we went. We went to the same (obscure) szechuan restaurant as we went to on my parents wedding anniversary […]

I recieved the following e-mail from Google;
Hello Peter Maas,
It has come to our attention that invalid clicks have been generated on the Google ads on your site(s). We have therefore disabled your Google AdSense account. Please understand that this step was taken in an effort to protect the interest of the AdWords advertisers.
A publisher’s site […]

Passed the JBB ‘Servlet Basic’ exam.

I just passed the ‘Servlet basic exam! My current JBB level is 21 knowledge points… but still no exam to get my orange belt .

Servlet Basic
02-23-2006
exams page

By the way, if you look at the JBB site you might just notice the huge Finalist logo. After me and one of my colleagues being really […]




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