Author Archives: erik

Battle of the IOC containers

Looking back A lot has happened in the last 5 years in the Java EE world. Developing EJB 2 applications was really hard and as a result a lot of opensource projects appeared addressing these problems. In particular, Spring and … Continue reading

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Flexible JDBC Realm for glassfish

The flexible JDBC realm that I developed for glassfish is now available as opensource through this site Please send me any feedback and more importantly contact SUN if you think this (or something similar) should be a part of glassfish. 

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Move from JBoss to Glassfish

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Favourite song of the week

Favorite song of the week  Daft Punk vs. Mahala Rai Banda – Technologaesca (Laston & Geo remix)    

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New enterprise class hard drive

After a lot of trouble with one of the Maxtor hard drives in my RAID array I decided it was better to get a new hard drive. I was really getting annoyed with all the failed RAID array verifications. This … Continue reading

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Countdown timers and traditions

It al started back in 1995 when I was counting down for defending my PhD Thesis. Working on HPUX I modified XDaliclock, a C program for the X windows system to countdown in seconds to the moment supreme. Ever since … Continue reading

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The Stateless Manager

The stateless manager is someone who prides himself on not knowing or understanding anything, and most importantly on not remembering anything. Symptoms: the manager must be informed of the same issues over and over again. Clearly, by definition, a stateless … Continue reading

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Humanity is doomed…

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Job hopping party

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new car…

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