Archive for June, 2007
Electronic music and vintage computers
0 Comments Published by peter June 23rd, 2007 in electronic music, fun.I came across the following video on the Computer Music website:
Although they claim that we have come a long way, I’m not so sure… The demonstrated C64 software looks like it is really fun to use!
Larger application (spring/hibernate/ehcache) running on Terracotta
0 Comments Published by peter June 15th, 2007 in java.With some tweaking I managed to get one of the webapps in our current project to run using terracotta to cluster caches. The only modification I had to make was related to one of my objects not being threadsafe; actually I solved a potential concurrency problem.
Configuring Terracotta proved to be a bit more complex then [...]
During the J-Spring conference yesterday I visited the session on Terracotta; I liked what I saw and started experimenting with it right away. Probably shouldn't have started with a complex application... had a lot of problems there.
I decided to step back a bit and set up two simple webapplications which put something in the session. [...]
Recently I installed iTerm and I must say that I'm very pleased with it's performance. However after the latest update my arrow keys stopped working when using VI.
Lucky me, the fix wasn't to hard, I added 'TERM=linux' to my /etc/bashrc file... et voila!
Today I visited the JSpring conference organized by the Dutch Java Usergroup (NLJUG). I met lot's of people I hadn't seen for a while, amongst them the lead developer of gaphor nice to meet up again after almost 3 years.
Keynote
This year over a 1000 visitors are expected to attend the JSpring 2007 conference. The usergroup [...]
Today I visited the (free) RubyEnRails 2007 conference. Although my day job doesn't include any Ruby or Rails at the moment I keep hoping that is will in the (near) future. During weekends and evenings I use Rails for small websites and services.
The conference opened by a keynote presented by Dr. Nic Williams; a bit [...]
I woke up, and was blown away:
Oh, and the website can be found here but is winxp/vista only... so I cant enter. Auch.



















