Author Archives: erik

James Gosling – quote

Posted on July 9, 2010 by erik

I apparently missed the news item that James Gosling left Oracle in April. One interesting quote though: “Just about anything I could say that would be accurate and honest would do more harm than good.” Really subtle. And a brilliant … Continue reading →

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Best of Downhill and Freeride

Posted on July 5, 2010 by erik
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More styling on the site

Posted on July 2, 2010 by erik

I did some more restyling on the site. The aim is minimal clutter and minimalistic style. If you have any suggestions to improve the site layout, please let me know!

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Java 4 Ever

Posted on June 30, 2010 by erik
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The black art of CSS

Posted on June 28, 2010 by erik

Yes, after a little bit of hacking with CSS and as usual bumping my head against several little issues that I still don’t understand, I managed to improve the layout of the site. The title is now neatly placed on … Continue reading →

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Improved links (and testing twitter integration)

Posted on June 28, 2010 by erik

Now links are more user-friendly (bookmarkable).

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Migrated from joomla to wordpress…

Posted on June 27, 2010 by erik

For a long time now I have been a bit annoyed by the limitations of joomla and now finally migrated to wordpress. As it turns out, migration is a breeze. I used a tool to migrate Joomla to an older … Continue reading →

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Your boss knows more about innovation then you do…

Posted on April 25, 2010 by erik

Here's a quote from 'Myths of Innovation', Scott Berkun, first paragraph of chapter 7.  "What advice would typical executives give Stephen Hawking, one of the brightest living minds, if he worked for them? Would they ask him to write daily … Continue reading →

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Looking into Java EE 6 and OSGI

Posted on April 10, 2010 by erik

At devoxx last year, it became quite clear that the industry is moving towards more lightweight approaches for enterprise development.

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JavaFX DOA?

Posted on November 21, 2009 by erik

After attending the Devoxx 2009 conference in Antwerp this year and seeing a number of presentations on JavaFX I got motivated for using it. The main reasons for looking at it would be:  it runs on the JVM so integrates … Continue reading →

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