March 3, 2010
Finally time for an update on this blog.
I am writing this from an hotel room in Belgium, and while I am still establishing myself around here, the work side of things is taking off!
Since last October I have been flirting with D Square, a Belgian data mining startup company, with the interest of becoming the [...]
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January 24, 2010
January 24th. When the sun went down on a sunday night, there I was with a lot to do on my hands, but a will to procrastinate.
Wandering through the depths of YouTube, I have found out that there’s been a Dragonlance animation movie out since 2007. I couldn’t resist the impulse. On I went to [...]
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December 26, 2009
Well well. It’s been months since I’ve last written an entry here. Lots going on in life, but that’s a lame excuse for not writing.
Truth is, I’ve been extremely busy with a lot of exciting projects, finding out new stuff, and mostly, exploring aspects of life other than coding (Yes, there is life after Java [...]
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August 25, 2009
A while ago I’ve posted a little article after watching a ThoughtWorker giving a presentation on InfoQ stating that no one needs an ESB, and that if you do need one, use squid.
Althought it is a very extreme point of view, it is definetly a valid one. Web Services, SOAP and WS-* specifications were all [...]
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July 18, 2009
The boys at WSO2 are running a series of summer classes on SOA fundamentals. Below is a nice, simple and very good presentation on SOA Security (not only WS-Security, but most optons available).
As for WSO2, the question is always the same… Are you profitable yet?
Summer School – Security in SOA
View more documents from wso2.org.
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June 18, 2009
I’ve been working with MySQL throughout my career (11 years and still going strong), and have grown to really love it and favor it over any other database out there. It’s rock solid, stable, and with MySQL 5 it also gained clustering capabilities.
As a developer, refactoring is comething I do pretty often. Renaming classes, methods, [...]
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June 2, 2009
I just stumbled upon an excellent blog article on how to interpret linux memory usage. While one might think that linux is a memory hog by looking at the Free Memory stats at /proc/meminfo or the “top” utility, it actually caches as much as it can of the memory, that being the main reason why [...]
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May 14, 2009
The documentation on Flex’s component lifecycle must be deeply hidden somewhere other than the official Adobe documents. I’ve been working with customizing the iLOG Elixir components for a project I’m on, and have been trying to find this for quite a while.
http://msimtiyaz.wordpress.com/flex/adobe-flex-component-instantiation-life-cycle/
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May 2, 2009
You may have heard me whine that rails isn’t going to replace Java anytime soon. You probably heard from me as well that it is a fad. Well, it’s been almost 6 years since its launch and it has already proven it’s here to stay. Like a lot of technologies, it has also made its [...]
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April 23, 2009
I’ve been known among my friends for pushing people to use quality open source software instead of illegal copies or copyrighted software, or unregistered versions of shareware programs. I’ve also been pushing the day to blog about this for a while, for some reason.
After using a Mac if only for a few hours – I [...]
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