Reality-Loop

  • October 13, 2008

    EJB 3 - The complete makeover?

    EJB has undergone quite a makeover! While EJB 1/2 was considered obese and ugly , EJB 3 now claims to be the complete opposite. I find the following observation illustrates the complete makeover: EJB 2 was one of the main reasons for the de...

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  • October 13, 2008

    Backing up iTunes Library

    I have a Netgear Ready NAS NV+. I am using rsync to backup my music library to a share on the NV+. This is the exact command I am using: rsync -av --progress --stats Music/iTunes/ /Volumes/media/Music/iTunes/ [I am posting this mo...

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  • October 11, 2008

    Are we all toddlers?

    Apache Foundation was founded in June 1999. Eclipse was announced in November 2001. Hibernate was registered on SourceForge in November 2001. Those are all indispensable cornerstones of my current professional life. At the time those corner...

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  • October 07, 2008

    Have I lost my faith?

    Recently I was listening to the excellent episode of Software Engineering Radio about the new Guardian.co.uk website. I was eagerly sucking up the facts the two architects Matthew Wall and Erik Doernenburg are presenting in the podcast. But af...

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  • October 07, 2008

    Humor is a quality for an architect!

    The following question and solution is from the preparation for the Sun Certfied Enterprise Architect (SCEA) from the Sun Learning Center: You have the assignment to create a new architecture that will be used by your organization for all futur...

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