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December 2005 - Posts

• Stuff that keeps you busy during the holidays...

  Unfortunatelly I can't keep myself busy doing donuts in a nearby parking lot, since the snow that I anticipated these days is not there. I already did plenty of donuts on the game console with the Need for Speed - Most Wanted game that I received from Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 28, 2005 10:01 AM by berte | 0 Comments

• Eclipse WTP 1.0 is out there...

  Seems there is a lot of confusion concerning the 1.0 release of the Eclipse Web Tools Platform. But really...its out there ! Grab a copy, have it wrapped, so you can still place it under the x-mas tree. But seriously, I encourage everyone to take a look Read More... Posted Saturday, December 24, 2005 12:23 AM by berte | 1 Comments

• JavaPolis 2005 - Day 5 - Final Day

  Okay, well here is my summary of the final day of JavaPolis. As with most conferences the final day is rather short, only 4 sessions and no keynotes. This is because there are lots of people that have to travel in order to be home for the weekend. And Read More... Posted Friday, December 16, 2005 3:37 PM by berte | 2 Comments

• JavaPolis 2005 - Day 4 - Conference

  Pfew...just crawled back into my hotel room after a crazy day. It's now about 1.30 AM and unfortunatelly there is no wireless signal in my room. This is mainly because its situated at the very end of the hallway, way too far from the elevator, so no wifi Read More... Posted Friday, December 16, 2005 7:46 AM by berte | 0 Comments

• JavaPolis 2005 - Day 3 - Conference

  Today the 'conference' part of JavaPolis started. Based upon my estimates there were even more people than the past two days. I could even call this blog entry 'reunion day' as I met lots of people that I work with, or had worked with in the past. Jeroen Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 14, 2005 10:29 PM by berte | 0 Comments

• JavaPolis 2005 - Day 2 - University

  Second day of the conference, another day of university sessions. The exhibition floor was now open, which meant open season for goodie hunting. Before the sessions started I did a small round and funny enough spent most time at the Microsoft booth. The Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 13, 2005 9:12 PM by berte | 0 Comments

• JavaPolis 2005 - Day 1 - University

  JavaPolis 2005 opened up with a two day university program. JavaPolis University means 3 hour in-depth sessions on a topic of your choice. With about 20 topics to choose from there is a broad selection of sessions. I went to see a session on 'Business Read More... Posted Monday, December 12, 2005 9:32 PM by berte | 3 Comments

• See you at JavaPolis

  Together with about 2000 other Java enthusiasts I will be at JavaPolis next week. JavaPolis is the major european Java conference organized by the Belgian Java User Group (BeJUG) in Antwerp, Belgium. If you are Dutch, make sure to keep an eye onto the Read More... Posted Sunday, December 04, 2005 11:25 AM by berte | 1 Comments

• Some more reasons why not to go with Oracle EJB 3 or their J2EE 1.4 related products

  So it seems I'm not the only one critising Oracle's bragging about EJB 3 and their blurry strategy around J2EE 1.4. Check out Eric Stahl's blog in which he's been pointing out issues with Oracle too. To put it in his words: “Their marketing claims Read More... Posted Sunday, December 04, 2005 11:01 AM by berte | 0 Comments

• Interesting double-play

  As I booted my laptop this morning the Java Update utility notified me of the availability of update 6 of the J2SE 5 Runtime Environment. During installation of the update I was asked if I'd like to install Google Toolbar as well. Wow, it seems that recent Read More... Posted Sunday, December 04, 2005 10:43 AM by berte | 0 Comments