A couple of months ago I presented a Podcast related to Java, Javacast. Well, for reasons that are still unknown to me, javacast went ‘out of the air’. But they are back! Sort of… They have created a new endeavour, JavaPosse, which so far has had some interesting podcasts. Hopefully this time they’ll stay ‘on […]
So, if you use Gmail, I’m sure you’re also getting the regular ‘Oops’ message: I’ve been having this error on and off for at least 3 weeks, and sometimes it annoys me (OK, every time). Doing a basic research, it appears many people are aware of this error, but no one knows why. Even though […]
After playing with Ubuntu for a while, I decided it was time to test another Linux distribution. This time, I went with OpenSuSE 10.0. As always, installation wasn’t a problem. In less than 25 minutes I had my system up and running. I liked the fact that opensuse, after installing, takes you directly to the […]
This Saturday, we had the opportunity to organize a Java User Group meeting, and have as special guest none other than Mr. James Gosling. Here’s the picture to prove it: We discussed several topics about Java. James Gosling talked to us about the new tools in Netbeans 5 for RAD GUI development, how he sees […]
Just as I was researching on a Continuous Integration tool for our next project at work, I learn from a co-worker that the Apache Maven Project has released final version 1.0 of its CI tool, Continuum. I downloaded and installed the application, and it looks really nice. Previous to this tool, I was considering using […]
I am very excited. This weekend Mr. James Gosling will come to Monterrey to act as a one of the guest speakers for a national youth science event. The good thing about it is that thanks to my lovely wife, who’s part of the team doing the organization of the event, I was able to […]
I got a Dell Latitude D600 laptop from work, and when I travel I usually use Skype to call home, since it is way cheaper than using the hotel’s long distance service. I usually carry a headset with me for the microphone, but I found out that my headset’s mic isn’t working anymore. I was […]
I’m testing Fedora Core 4 on my laptop. Basically installing it, playing around with GNOME and KDE, and the different applications that it has. I have already burnt a DVD+R (another copy of FC4 for a friend) without a problem with K3b (K3b rules! ). Eclipse comes on the installation DVD, and I installed it, […]
I’m using Ajaxtags to implement an ajax-enabled form with dynamic dropdown fields. In order to access my DAO object (which is a Spring managed bean) to get the dropdown options, I had to have access to the Application context from a regular Servlet. The solution is very simple, but since I had some troubles finding […]
I’ve been using Gentoo on my laptop for a while, and while I find the features of Gentoo to be very powerful (compile from source to target your specific machine, central source repository, repository synchronization, etc), the fact that updating any major application takes a couple of days has really hit me. I’ve been looking […]
