Jakub Korab

Category: technology

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Java PC Emulator/Open Source Goodness

    After the recent announcement by Dell that they were going to be selling Linux-based desktops and laptops, I decided to check out their site to see what’s on offer. For some strange reason the open source laptops they are selling don’t come with Linux at all (?) but with FreeDOS. I had never heard of…

  • What bugs me about Guice

    Last week I switched a basic Spring app to Guice, the new dependency-injection framework from Google. It’s nice, it’s quick, and it does what it says on the box, but one thing bothers me. I know it’s not really logical, but it’s like a rock in my shoe – I need to import com.google.inject annotations…

  • Becoming a Programmer

    I came across an article posted a while ago by Rob Walling (http://www.softwarebyrob.com/articles/Software_Training_Sucks_Roll_it_Back.aspx) proposing that the best way to learn how to program is via an apprenticeship with a more experienced programmer. I love the idea, it just sounds right to have someone shortcut you through a lot of the unnecessary pain. It is something…