Category Archives: Software

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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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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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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