Author Archive
Tuesday, July 10th, 2007
How to look for Jars in Groovy.
Tips for Grails (Groovy RoR clone). I personaly don’t like Grails that much, but still worth the read.
A benchmark of what I consider to be the best full-blown opensource relationnal database server. (full bench at http://www.spec.org/jAppServer2004/results/res2007q3/jAppServer2004-20070606-00065.html).
The PetStore JavaEE sample applications using JBoss Seam / JSF, JPA (new-generation CMP EJB ) running on Glassfish.
A Python ORM developed by Canonical (Ubuntu).
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Sunday, July 8th, 2007
Une bande dessinée comique sur la Formule 1. Tout simplement excellent !
A J2EE guy impressions after moving to Ruby on Rails.
A very well-written article on tuning PostgreSQL. It will also give you a few pointers to find out more on the topic.
Thoughtful post on how the JRuby guys plan to help the Java virtual machine just-in-time compiler to boost the JRuby performance. I’ve learned a few things regarding the JVN JIT
Groovy supports Java annotations which is very useful thing when you want to interface with some frameworks from Groovy.
A very good NNTP newsgroup reader for… errr… hum… getting “news”
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Saturday, June 30th, 2007
A very good review of management books. You may need to learn about this at some point of your career…
Preview of the upcoming swiss knife for Ruby on Rails applications deployment / maintainance.
AppleScript is always amazingly simple to use. Here, the Google guys have enabled their Google Desktop application, and show some examples. Neat!
The japanese rule of eating until you are 80% full may also apply to other things like … presentation talks.
Return statements in Java ‘finally’ clauses considered harmful.
A set of free icons for web 2.0 social-bla-bla-bla websites (del.icio.us, digg, dtc/iya, …).
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Wednesday, June 27th, 2007
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Nobody reads end user license agreements, so here is why we should sometimes care a bit more about them.
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The Internet is nefast to productivity
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Adsense ads borders can now be rounded. Nice to have.
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Funny story of a middle-of-the night call emergency operation for sysadmins.
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Thursday, June 14th, 2007
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Interesting discussion on the implementation of the JavaScript ‘with’ function in Ruby.
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A set of screencast showing JBoss Seam development in combination with Eclipse.
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There’s been a lot of Safari3 on Windows bashing lately with people forgeting that this is still a beta. Romain explains in this post why he likes Safari and won’t go into the bashing wagon.
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Excellent mottos for PHP… did I ever tell you that PHP is crap? :-p
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A very interesting discussion on sound loundness that you can extrapolate to your talks too.
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The website of the OpenDocument Formal Alliance which is promoting the use of these open formats. ODF is the main format of OpenOffice.org starting from version 2.0 and above.
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