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An evening on the Go

Ben — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:47:44 +0000

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Last Thursday (July 22nd, 2010) Rob Pike, a Principal Engineer at Google, gave a talk at the O’Reilly Open Source conference. In this talk he stated that established languages such as C++ and Java are too complex and not adequately suited for today’s computing [...]

Upgraded wordpress and the atahualpa theme

jettro — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 18:03:10 +0000

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I have just upgraded the wordpress software to version 3. It all seemed to work fine. However I noticed errors in the archive pages. Therefore I wanted to upgrade to the latest and greatest atahualpa theme that I use for my blog. I should [...]

Creating a sample for axon using flex and parsley

jettro — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:46:37 +0000

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The last weeks or maybe even months, I have spent time getting to understand the Axon Framework created by Allard. Axon is a framework that can help developers created a scalable and maintainable application based on Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) principles. Each morning [...]

Creating a w3c validated rss feed using Rome and spring 3

jettro — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:16:00 +0000

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For my current customer I had to create an rss feed. In the java domain you immediately grab Rome to do the job. There was a catch. My customer wants (with good reason) to have feeds validated by the w3c feed validator. This [...]

Analyzing beet results with groovy

jettro — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:27:32 +0000

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The recent weeks I have been playing around with grails. When working with grails you have to learn groovy as well. Sometimes I am just amazed by the easiness of doing things with groovy. That is why I started out using groovy for a [...]

Doing grails, yes I like it

jettro — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:30:54 +0000

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Last week I attended a groovy & grails training by SpringSource. My first introduction into grails is about 2 years a go. I attended a talk at the spring experience. Back than I liked it, tried it, but did not really use it. By [...]

The Long and Winding Road: a tale of grouping my mails using a user-defined field in Outlook

Ben — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 01:33:38 +0000

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First and foremost an apology to all regular readers: I fully realize GridShore is not intended to deal with Microsoft technology (or whatever detritus is collected under that name). However, this one is such a beauty of having to go the long way to [...]

Creating a sortable list of items using jQuery

jettro — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 23:01:01 +0000

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For a project that I am working on Your-Scrum I need a lot of items in a list that are sortable. One Story is to have a backlog with stories that are sortable to reflect the importance. Using Domain Driven Design, I have created [...]

Upgrade woes and frustrations

Ben — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:49:26 +0000

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This Monday my corporate laptop was upgraded. Last week I was in proud possession of an HP/Compaq NC6400, this week I have an IBM Lenovo R400 Thinkpad (an absolute Boer of a laptop, compared with the sleek and polished Compaq). It’s ugly and the [...]

Using google analytics data in your application

jettro — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 15:47:09 +0000

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I guess everybody that has to do something with websites knows the possibilities of google analytics. I am also sure that not a lot of people know all possibilities. This is post is about one of those possibilities that you might never heard [...]