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Better late than never (our Javapolis pictures)

I finally uploaded our photos from Javapolis 2005 and 2004…. For those of you who don’t know, Javapolis is one the biggest Java conferences in the world and probably the biggest in Europe. This year over 2100 people from 43 countries attended Javapolis. I believe that Javapolis as the accomplishment of a JUG is impressive […]

Distributed Transactions in Java

If you are interested in distributed transactions checkout the talk Demystifying Java Technology Transaction Processing by Jon Maron, Mark Little and Greg Pavlik. The talk was given at JavaOne 2004 and it available online for the Sun Developer Network members (you can be a member with a free registration). Mike Spille has also written a […]

My first JHUG meeting

Yesterday I went to a JHUG meeting. This was the first time that I meet with the other JHUG members, in real life. As a typical JUG meeting, we talked for hours about Java, technology and of course JHUG. It was really great to talk to you guys and I hope we will meet more […]

Prototype based object models

The Mozilla Developer Center has a great guide for Javascript. This guide provides one of the best explanations I’ve read on the Javascript object model and on prototype based object models in general. Although I have only programed with languages that provide class based object models I believe that that prototype based object models are […]

Eclipse TPTP 4.1 Released

The Eclipse Test and Performance Tools Platform version 4.1 has been released. Major enhancements of this release include: Web application testing and profiling support. There is no need to install and use an agent controller for collecting data on a local system. The TPTP 4.1 plug-in has an integrated controller that can be used to […]