How much do you (or your business) rely on external applications to go about your everyday business? When something goes wrong, who do you blame, how do you get it fixed and what amount of leverage do you have to get your issues resolved? It seems that one of the proposals for the new Web […]
Having troubles with Windows XP speed after a while? Did you remember to defrag the drives every now and then? Here’s a quick tip: If Windows Defragmenting tool complains about not enough free space to perform the defragmentation, close all programs and disable Hibernation and virtual memory on your computer. That will free space on […]
By now everyone must have read what Bruce Eckel had to say about Java (or rather, about Java enthusiasts) on Artima, especially after the article was picked up by Slashdot yesterday. I must confess I read the article several times, and I still don’t see how Bruce’s comments lead to the conclusion that Java enthusiasts […]
At work, we use an IM server from Microsoft that uses the Windows Messenger app as a client, and only works for internal communications. Since last week and for reasons unknown, the server is not responding (the person in charge didn’t reply to my emails). As a group of developers separated by geography, IM tools […]
Tired of going to a website and think ‘what are other people thinking about this site?’ Well, thanks to the great minds of people working at Google, you need to wonder no more! They have come up with a new FireFox extension that will search blog posts from around the blogosphere to find what people […]
On the Gnome Usability mailing list, Linus Torvalds replied to a mail from Till Kamppeter asking about PPD options removed from the printing dialog, by actively saying that he (Linus) encourages everyone to switch or use KDE. He then goes to criticize Gnome developers as ‘interface Nazis’, which care more about dumbing down the user […]
At work, I’ve been working on a project that uses Websphere Application Server (WAS) 5.1. Part of the development setup is to use Websphere Studio Application Developer (WSAD) 5.1, because it is tightly integrated with WAS. One of the problems this represents is that WSAD 5.1 is based on Eclipse 2.1.3. After working with Eclipse […]
I was trying last night to update my CVS copy of the Spring Rich Client project, which is in its early alpha stages (more about this project on a later post). Since 10pm CST I kept retrying every now and then, to no avail. Apparently SourceForge‘s CVS servers were down yesterday. I tried again this […]
I was looking into some information on how to do unit testing using mock objects. Since I’m using Spring, I’m also considering this into the equation. So far, I have found some nice articles, like this one linked from TheServerSide, which talks about unit testing and mock objects in general, and provide some examples. I […]
I’ve been reading the documentation for Ofbiz, an "open source enterprise automation software project". Basically the project provides almost everything you need to create an ERP, a CRM or whatever Enterprise application you want. One of the most interesting concepts they implement is the Entity Engine. In a nutshell, the engine allows you to deal […]
