Jakub Korab

Author: Jakub

  • Running a successful JUG

    Ahmed Hashim from the Egypt JUG wrote an excellent post a while back about how to run a successful JUG. Great post, I'll probably use it as a checklist. http://egjug.org/hashimblog/2006/10/14/how-to-make-a-successful-java-user-group/ Since posting last week on the name change I have been approached with offers of sponsorship, as well as help from other JUGs. Greatly appreciated.

  • All New Dublin JUG!

    The people have spoken. The Dublin Java Meetup Group is now officially changing its name to the Dublin Java Users Group. I’ve been going over ideas for pushing the JUG ahead over the coming months. So far pie in the sky stuff, but you have to have an agenda:– meetups (of course – the forum…

  • Dublin Java Meetup Rebrand/Relaunch

    Over the coming months I’m going to be relaunching the Java Meetup that I organize. Hopefully rebranding it to a JUG will get a few more eyeballs on the group’s activities as it expands from a monthly drinks and discussion format. Some of the ideas I’m hoping to try out are coding workshops and perhaps…

  • Setting up DGB PHP debugging against XAMPP

    Here's one in case anyone is pulling out their hair trying to work out why they get the following message in their apache error.log: PHP Warning: Module 'Zend Optimizer' already loaded in Unknown on line 0PHP Warning: Zend Optimizer: module registration failed! in Unknown on line 0 It seems that dbg somehow conflicts with Zend…

  • Absolutely unreal!

    After two weeks travelling around Cuba I have to say, it was amazing! Havana, Santa Clara, Cienfuegos, Trinidad. I covered only about a quarter of the country by geography, but it just doesn’t seem enough. You could easily spend a month in the place. The people are fantastic, the country is safer than most places…

  • Viva la Cuba!

    Arrived in Havana a couple of days ago. It’s a really nice city. I had expected to be hassled pretty much everywhere, but it’s not like that at all. The people are really friendly, the food is good and the mojitos are sensational. Off to Santa Clara tomorrow if I can manage to communicate 🙂…

  • I feel an election coming on

    Now they want to ban HIV positive migrants… http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6551245.stm Truly this is a bumper news day!

  • Further censorship in Australia

    Every time Australia’s government is in the news these days I can’t help but to be astounded. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6551003.stm Once again, in an election year the “tough on <whatever>” line comes out, further eroding civic freedoms. This time they have started censoring books and films that “glorify terrorism”. The following line in the article below left…

  • Finally – I’m booked!

    After weeks of procrastinating, I finally booked a casa particular in Havana. So that’s now my first bit of accomodation sorted. Flights, tourist visa, accomodation, vaccines, a couple of salsa lessons up my sleeve and language lessons on the iPod. I am officially ready for cohibas, mohitos and a really great holiday. I recommend casaparticular.org…

  • How much Spanish?

    As my first step, I set a goal to learn enough Spanish by the 20th of April to get by on my solo trip to Cuba. Holiday grade language is pretty straight forward, right? “Una cerveza por favor!” I got a copy of Michel Thomas Spanish, and it’s going really well. The pace is pretty…