tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80222852024-09-17T02:52:02.479+02:00Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8022285.post-3182914594239805122010-06-05T09:39:00.004+02:002010-06-05T11:06:27.630+02:00

My solution was based on a super old computer and FreeNAS. It was a pretty good solution but:It wasn't setup for redundancy (I've been extremely lucky so far as I don't remember ever having a hard drive crashing)It was running out of spaceIt was quite power consumingThe torrent client wasn't super stable To solve my two first issues I would have had to buy new IDE hard drives (remember the

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Mapple - The Simpsonspar aarplane

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It has been a while I found the time to blog. Here is a little entry.I've often hear that a Servlet filter was not working while trying to filter some Java resource. Usually this is because the filter is defined like:<filter-mapping> <filter-name>My Broken Filter</filter-name> <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern></filter-mapping>and the filtered content is accessed

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8022285.post-32989447766628260632008-05-09T18:44:00.003+02:002008-05-09T18:49:50.909+02:00

No comment so far... Still waiting on my "Student permit".

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As I'm working on a multiple supported database application, most of the issues i faced are because of Oracle Database...Point 1 - The official jdbc driver sucks.Since i write in Java, i need to go through the JDBC driver to access the Oracle Database server, while it should be transparent and a fairly easy piece of software to maintain, they do an horrible job... Let's consider a moment that

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I just realized that i have some symptoms of Mid-life crisis.I'm literally changing many things in my life right now, and want to do lot of new things.First i'm buying my very first house up in the mountains. Second i'm getting married next year. (Chronological order)Now I regret i didn't pursue on skydiving but will do my first paragliding fly this year !Also, if you would have asked me about

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8022285.post-6562847475328096642008-03-25T18:44:00.004+01:002008-03-25T18:55:14.064+01:00

I finally took some time to check why my cookies were not saved on the iPhone embedded Safari. It appears that it's a bug that came with the 1.1.4 firmware, a stupid write permission missing, something that takes few seconds to fix on an open platform.Unfortunately the iPhone is a closed platform if you don't do anything and you can't fix that bug yourself, you need to wait on Apple to get a new

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8022285.post-8369791141911925822008-02-25T13:26:00.002+01:002008-02-25T13:34:33.441+01:00

If you are not so romantic or very shy, you can always propose your beloved through Facebook.See, if you change a friend status to "engaged" it says "A notification will now be sent to xxx yyy for approval".Just wait and you'll know if he/she says "Yes" !By the way, this blog entry is also a good way to let you know that she said "yes" (in real, not on Facebook yet though).

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JBoss World parties usually have nice open bars (This year was a bit different, with a multi-disco place).With an open bar, you come at the bar, you drink, you don't pay and most people thank (or even tip) the barmaid. It works because a company pays for the barmaid salaries and the drinks. It's a financial efforts that lasts for a couple of hours.Open source definition was made on February 9th

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8022285.post-38667061610548263922008-02-18T20:54:00.002+01:002008-02-18T21:11:15.614+01:00

This JBoss World was particularly interesting for our project.We had two major announcements:- JBoss Portlet Bridge: The JSR-301 bridge with Seam and Richfaces supports for portlets, it is *huge*.- JBoss Portlet Container 2.0: The implementation of the public final draft of Portlet 2.0. Julien demoed a mashup-style portal that uses the spec ! It is also *huge*.It's also always very interesting to

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8022285.post-5811108289502460502008-01-24T21:33:00.000+01:002008-01-24T21:34:55.781+01:00

Damn i got the US name wrong, it's not XTii but XSi and it's a 12.2MP captor. Digic III and live view were correct though :)A lot of cool things come with it, check it here.One thing i still don't understand (or don't want to understand) is the pricing...In the US (with a very fair price): Camera body: $800 (551 Euros) Camera body + lense: $900 (620 Euros)In Europe: Camera body: 850

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Why did Sun buy MySQL (for that price) ?To push on their hardware (where they make real $$$) and Solaris ?http://sacha.labourey.com/2008/01/17/from-lamp-to-samp/When Sun may want you to move from Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP to Solaris, Apache, MySQL, PHP (on Sun hardware) but really Solaris, Glassfish (the paying version), MySQL, Java (on Sun Hardware)Or we have *J*J (Java on JBoss on any database,

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8022285.post-9014295619119215322008-01-11T12:29:00.001+01:002008-01-11T12:41:56.709+01:00

Usually i am not a big fan of documentaries about bands, i really enjoy music DVD though, my collection is getting quite big.Heima from Sigur Rós, received such good critics that i had to watch it, and i don't regret my purchase at all.Heima is not just a documentary about the band but also on Iceland. During the movie, we can follow the tour they gave in Iceland after a world wild tour. The

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Ivy has some support for Maven repositories which is a great thing. I can easily use libraries that are stored on http://repository.jboss.org/maven2 for example.But i also need to use snapshot versions of some libraries. Maven2 deal with snapshot version is a different way and add a timestamp to the library names. For example:http://snapshots.jboss.org/maven2/org/jboss/portal/common/

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I'm in the market for a new Digital SLR Camera, i currently have an old Canon D30 (not the more recent 30D) bought in 2001.If you look at the release dates for the past Canon cameras of the entry-level family:August 2003: Canon EOS 300D / Digital Rebel (6 mp) February 2005: Canon EOS 350D / Digital Rebel XT (8 mp) -- 16 months after previous modelAugust 2006: Canon EOS 400D / Digital Rebel XTi

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I got myself a Wifi rabbit, also known as Nabaztag.The newer version has a (useless) RFID reader and a (useful) microphone, i can ask him about the weather forecast by telling him "Meteo" while i press the button on his head.There are several Nabcast and Nabgets you can subscribe too. Here is the list of elements i use: - Avent calendar, every day a Christmas song is played - Speaking clock (on

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I'm still stuck in Antwerp waiting to go back home and have some time waiting in the lobby while Julien is sleeping on the floor.This year was really good for me, professionally and personally. We had the chance to meet JBoss Portal users, some claiming how impressed they were about the performance testing they did on our product compare to other similar open source solutions. I was also able to

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8022285.post-64067130577604224192007-11-29T12:47:00.000+01:002007-11-29T14:05:32.077+01:00

Yes, Sacha and Chris already blogged about it... But i had to do it too, i keep listening to those two guys since i read Sachas' blog.The Kiwi guys (New Zealanders) are very funny plus it's very pleasant to listen. So I just want to add my favorite one here:If you can't listen to it here is an extract from the lyrics:Girl tonight we’re gonna make loveYou know how I know?Because it’s WednesdayAnd

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8022285.post-73482182647627342062007-11-13T21:27:00.000+01:002007-11-13T21:39:08.828+01:00

So i felt for the overpriced Tefal Actifry, the promise of this product is to make crispy, tasty fries with only one spoon of oil. (The green stuff which quite a big spoon in fact)Well call me stupid, but i tried twice and changing some settings (thinner fries, more time, even more oil) but i could never reach the crispy state for my fries :(They are about as crispy as Mc Donald's fries...I will

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8022285.post-14595458842979929522007-11-13T20:52:00.000+01:002007-11-13T21:23:21.236+01:00

So at the end if i had to create a new big project i would probably give a try to Ivy + Ant, since Ivy since to solve the library dependency issues while ant is still my favorite tool since it lets me do what i want without any hurdle.On the other hand, for portletswap sample portlets, i decided to go with Maven. The reason is that Maven seems better understood by 'new' developers. And 'ant'

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I was looking for a way to simplify the access to the different features of my home cinema. I knew the answer would be in a universal remote control, the problem is to find the correct one...I was lucky enough to see the Logitech Harmony by a friend, and he could only tell me good things about it.I wanted to give it a try and went ahead buying their cheapest model, the Harmony 525.Man, this

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8022285.post-54498099808118670532007-11-02T12:25:00.000+01:002007-11-02T12:18:07.232+01:00

Not only you need some documentation to start but also to use as reference as you get more familiarized with the build mechanism.Round three: DocumentationBoth ant and maven, have good starting guides available on the web (here for ant, here and here for maven).When you got started, you need more. That's where it gets nasty... Maybe i'm just dumb but this is mostly what i found for Maven

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8022285.post-39713919358206384892007-10-19T12:16:00.000+02:002007-10-19T15:08:39.385+02:00

Alright so now i need to programmatically generate files to include in the WEB-INF directory along other static files.Round two: Defining multiple places for aggregationMaven lifecycle is pretty well defined (1). To generate my files, i'm using a Mojo (Maven Pojo) attached to the generate-resources phase. Easy enough, pretty cool.The issue i have now is that i need to generate those files in

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When it comes to Ant vs Maven on a forum it usually ends up as an endless discussion, with arguments getting worse and worse, a bit like Windows vs Linux, LCD vs Plasma or Frite ou Potatoes (as they ask in Swiss Mac Donalds). Basically you have to try both to get your own opinion. Still I will try to forget what i heard and just give my experience, the experience of someone who used ant for years

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8022285.post-23703407734182083422007-10-15T20:24:00.000+02:002007-10-15T20:25:26.425+02:00

It looks like, a lot of people have legacy application using Struts and want to integrate them in a Portal. It is not surprising since Struts (fathered by Craig McClanahan, who is also the father of JSF) born in 2000 was so popular and was solving most of the problems of web development at that time.It also seems that lot of developers think they invested enough time learning Struts that they

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