Jakub Korab

Random musings of a restless mind.

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…