Author Archives: erik

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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Favorite song: Little Boots – New in town

Posted on May 12, 2009 by erik
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Myths about operational excellence

Posted on April 26, 2009 by erik

Ok, so every company wants to improve operational excellence in software development, i.e. develop more functionality in a shorter amount with less people. Unfortunately, a number of myths persevere about this subject.  

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Reverse Engineering

Posted on April 21, 2009 by erik

A design of some sort that gets progressively worse over time. Often seen in IT.

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some useful definitions

Posted on April 10, 2009 by erik

Strategy, [strt-j], plural: strategies, A careful plan or method which is never executed.  Crisis, [ krī-səs], plural: crises, The usual state in a company that prevents the execution of any strategy. 

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UPS and storage rack installed

Posted on March 24, 2009 by erik

Last week the storage rack and UPS arrived so I had quite a lot of work to do.

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server rack installed

Posted on March 1, 2009 by erik

I received the rack this weekend and put it to use immediately

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First steps in LAN transformation…

Posted on February 27, 2009 by erik

I have now taken the first step in the transformation of my local network, which is about robustness and 19'' rackmount form factor. 

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Caught the server virus again…

Posted on January 28, 2009 by erik

So here I am in this situation again. I definitely have a bad case of the server virus.

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Battle of the IOC containers

Posted on May 9, 2008 by erik

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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