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Today the mailman brought me the NAS device I recently ordered. It is a nice and shiny Synology DS-101J with a 320GB disk:

The device will replace the recently broken WinXP Desktop machine for all its network related storage and UPNP serving. Next to this we’ll use the device for making backups of my wife’s laptop; […]

Yesterday evening I went to the JRuby talk organized by Finalist at the Stroom Hotel in Rotterdam. The presentation (by JRuby gurus Charles O. Nutter and Tom Enebo) was quite similar to the presentation they gave at Javapolis but with some juicy additions.
To get an idea of what is possible with JRuby just download the [...]

(blatant but really important clone from remvee)
Both JRuby super hero’s, Charles and Thomas, will be talking about JRuby tomorrow at Stroom Hotel in Rotterdam. Come and find out why having a Ruby interpreter on the Java platform is a “good thing”.
Registration seminar@finalist.com.

The last three days I've been attending the Javapolis 2006 conference.
Wednesday December 13th

Keynotes (barely made it due to traffice jams)

Typical oracle (Duncan Mills) demoing of their ajaxed suites, esb orchestration etc. To much, to fast, to Oracle
Sun demo's of Java 'fun' stuff, like controling robots and wearables etc.

Pragmatic clustering guide (Mike Cannon-Brookes [...]

Today Sun released Java Standard Edition 6. Although I haven't had time to test-drive it the feature list looks promising. Amongst the new features the scripting language support (JSR 223) stands out. Next to a new framework and API for scripting languages they've integrated Mozillas' Javascript engine (Rhino) into the platform.
I must say that the [...]

Yesterday I attended the Lucene workshop at Amis, and NO I am NOT thinking about switching, it’s all about knowledge... and this time I took the opportunity to invite the attending Amis developers to the JRuby seminar by Charles Nutter organized by Finalist.
The presentation and workshop where presented by my ex-colleague Jeroen van Wilgenburg. The [...]