Author: Jakub
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Getting up to speed on EJB3 and Spring
Another contract, another technology set. Having successfully avoided working in EJB2 after getting certified in it by Sun (only to work out just how badly it smelt 😉 ), my initial foray into its successor has been much nicer. The job in question specified Spring and EJB3 as technology requirements, so having Sprung in anger,…
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Killing the 419 through a high signal-noise ratio
Most of the spam that hits my mailbox these days is the “Contact us urgently for your $1.5 million” type rubbish. Everything else seems to get caught by my email provider. I guess that the 419 looks like something that may be legitimate, so they let it through. Sending the mails on to email providers…
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Upcoming Events at the Dublin JUG
At Tuesday’s regular monthly JUG meetup, I put forward some ideas of the sort of stuff that I’m going to be pushing in order to make the JUG more valuable to our members. Master classes – a 2-3 hour session for 20 people max that explains how to use one technology properly. Eg. how to…
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7 year old girl implements Pet Store in Java
Seems today is my day for posting links up. I blame the guys at the JUG. http://craigbbaker.com/2007/07/08/7-year-old-girl-implements-pet-store-in-java/
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22 Confessions of a Former Dell Sales Manager
Great tips on how to get the best deal on a new system from Dell: http://consumerist.com/consumer/insiders/22-confessions-of-a-former-dell-sales-manager-268831.php
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Web Developer rates up 26% in UK
Driven by new interest in Web 2.0 technologies, acquisitions by the New Conglomerates (Google, Microsoft et al.) http://www.contractoruk.com/news/003339.html
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Dublin JUG June Meetup Synopsis
So you wanted to know what exactly gets covered at the Dublin JUG meetups? Here's a quick, edited stream of collective consciousness from last night: JBoss guys doing talk in London – Mark Proctor, JBoss Rules.Sun Microsystems HQ might be an idea for presentations. Topics that might be covered in a Rules, JBoss, Hibernate, Spring..Net…
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JVM upgrades anyone?
I think it’s fair to say that I have worked in a few places during my time in IT. The same issues, problems, discussions seem to pop up all the time. One of my biggest annoyances is that the moment a dependency is added into a development project, it’s cast in concrete. Getting rid of…
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Kitesurfing is The Business.
I finally went for lessons last weekend at Dollymount Beach in Dublin. Winds were around 15-20 knots, onshore, sun was shining. Perfect conditions. It was unreal! You just don’t appreciate wind until you get out on one of these things. The kites themselves are huge. We were flying 11m ones, and the force you get…
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Dealing with scam emails
Spam filters are pretty good these days. Most of the spam you get gets blocked either by your email provider or by your mail program of choice. But every once in a while scam emails have a tendency of slipping through. You know the type – “WINNING NOTICE – CATEGORY A WINNER”. The great Nigerian…