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Someone sort of complained about the fact that my Blog is starting to look like a resume. Maybe he’s right, but I didn’t really intend it to be…
This post however is about another training I attended today. The training could however be the start of a some better, and more useful posts. Most trainings I […]

A couple of weeks ago the zipper of my Samsonite laptop bag broke. Could happen you would think. Well, it could.. but something similar happened last year to the bag before. Luckily Samsonite replaced my bag again, for the third time, and offered me another two years of warranty. Did I find my way into […]

During the course last week Christian already mentioned the upcoming ‘Horizontal Partitioning’ extension for Hibernate. What he didn’t mention was that it would be donated by Google!
Yesterday the Hibernate site displayed a new toplevel module called Shards. Shards offers critical data clustering and support for horizontal partitioning (also called sharding) to Hibernate. Cool… what does […]

I came across this demonstration video of Adobe’s new crossplatform runtime:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/videos/apollo_demo07/index.html
Most of the stuff has been possible using Java Webstart for a couple of years now, but somehow I’ve got the feeling the people at Adobe are so fare ahead in the marketing department that Appolo won’t have any problems surpassing Java Webstart at all.
A […]

We’re back online! Average speed seems to be around the 8/1 , which is far under the max of 20… but still much faster then the previous connection… and much cheaper

Pricewise our old and trusted Demon ADSL was getting a bit old. The 4/1 mbit line was quite a bit more expensive then most of the current 20/1 mbit connections; and with the new types of VOIP based plans we don’t need a separate telephone account anymore.
So today was going to be the day that […]

Today the training continued, full speed ahead. We covered some really handy topics like:

Queries, Criteria API, Filters
Application design with Hibernate
Performance tuning
Deployment
Caching

I found it quite usefull to have an in-depth view on the way the second level cache (and thus query cache) work. Application design was primarely focussed on using EJB3 for what we call the […]

Today was the first day of the two-day Hibernate Advanced (H267) training which I’m attending. Most of the stuff discussed isn’t new to me, but hearing explanations of certain side effects by one of the Hibernate gurus (Christian Bauer, (co)author of Java Persistence with Hibernate and Hibernate in Action) is actually a really nice […]

Today I passed the JBB Spring Core exam. It cost me 50 contribution points, and took me almost 90 minutes…. one of the most difficult exams I took. So I’m actually pleased with a score of 70% this time
Successful

Result id: #90188

Spring […]

The last couple of months there was a lot of buzz about Second Live. Personally I don’t really like the type of game; I like to do something competitive. I do think however that people a looking for new ways to meet and interact with each other.
Sony must have thought the same, the new Playstation […]