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After the big takeover of JBoss by Redhat, what else was to be expected then small companies smelling money. Slashdot features a post about Firestar filing a patent claim against Redhat claiming that they ‘have suffered and will continue to suffer substantial damages.’.
Funny to see this claim being filed after Hibernate moved to Redhat… […]

A short discussion with my father today made me think about environments for software testing. One of my previous projects had a full OTAP environment for testing (Dutch acronym for development, system test, functional acceptance test and production). The current project features a testserver and database.
Eventhough it seems to be common practice to have isolated […]

Today I had my first, and best fathersday ever. Most people wouldn’t even think about achieving anything at such day at all, I managed to do quite a lot! Here a short summary of my day:

I just passed my Swing - Basic exam:

#Questions
#Points

TOTAL:
20
20/ 20
= 100%

(75% required)

Correct (+1)
20
20

Wrong (-0)
0
-0

Unanswered (0)
0
0

Results speak for themselves! And YES I’m a brown belt now!

Google’s earth, a 3d interface to the planet, is now availlable for linux (natively) as well. Now if only they would include higher resolution pictures of my area (and yes, I wouldn’t mind the 3d building outlining either ;)):

But anyway, great job getting a native linux port out Google!

I know, Google is evil. But they now offer a great extension for Firefox called Google Browser Sync. It allows you to sync your Firefox profile (bookmarks, stored passwords, history) with a cenrtralized service; a roaming browser profile!
When I first read the announcement I was a bit scared by the implications on privacy, but […]

Last week I devised a cunning plan to get myself a Streamium SL300i unit. I won’t go into details concerning the plan, but it included a travelsleeper, my dad, a superb performance of the Stripe bigband (featuring my dad playing his trombone) and last but not least: my son.
The SL300i allows you to wirelessly […]