Archive for February, 2006
Undisturbed Tomb found in the Valley of the Kings
2 Comments Published by peter February 11th, 2006 in science.An unlooted and previously unopened 18th Dynasty tomb has been found in the Valley of the Kings. American archaeologists found five mummies resting in sarcophagi, funerary masks, and coptic storage jars. It is the first such discovery since Howard Carter’s discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922.
archaeologists said they discovered the tomb by accident while working [...]
My succeeded exams list is growing:
Succeeded exams
OO Basic
02-03-2006
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Java SE Basic
02-05-2006
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JSP Basic
02-06-2006
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Struts Basic
02-09-2006
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XML Basic
02-11-2006
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I have 18 knowledge points now, enough for an orange belt…. but the
orange Java SE Intermed exam isn’t availlable at the moment! I’ll have to wait till it’s taken out of beta….
Rumors about oracle buying JBoss are all over the place… since lot’s of the projects we do are based on JBoss technology it would be interesting to see this happening. With Oracle funding JBoss could really take on Beas’ WebLogic!
Apart from JBoss Oracle seems to be interested in buying Zend [...]
Finalist Ruby & Java teams in RAD Race 2006
1 Comment Published by peter February 9th, 2006 in java, ruby.This year two teams of the company I work for will join the RAD Race contest. Specifically nice about this is that one of the teams will use Java/JAG ( JAG started off life as an internal java focused RAD tool, now available under a GPL license on sourceforge) and the other team will use [...]
I understand it might be getting a bit boring, but today I passed the Struts Basic exam. It was actually a bit harder then I expected, but at the end I had a score of 90% (80% required). Now, only one more exam to pass to obtain my Orange belt!
Today I succeeded the JBB - JSP Basic exam, three knowledge points closer to my next belt!
Today I passed the OO Basic and Java SE Basics tests, now I can proudly wear my yellow belt! I also collected enough credits to take one of the more advanced exams (haven’t got enough contribution points for Java SE Intermed yet though… bummer… not all my contributed questions have been verified yet) in [...]
Yesterday I installed the ubuntu netinstall on the Dell Dimension 5100 at the office. The installation went smooth, apart from failing to start X that is. The graphics board is manufactured by ATI (X300). Previously I always had the choice to go with NVIDIA which is not much of a hasle to install.
Installing the ATI [...]
