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08 April 2014 / Java / ME
Just recently I showed interest for the oracle class for Java Embedded. Since I always had an interest for hardware and similar things I thought this is an opportunity. Getting the hardware imposed to be a problem. The preferred supplier could not deliver the goods in any reasonable time frame, or at least I was told so by a colleague. But my employer arranged a study group. They even supplied us with the required hardware.
07 March 2014 / Java / CDI / EE
Since the introduction of Java CDI container my focus is on building applications without the usage of any Spring libraries. It’s not that I do not like Spring, but since CDI I don’t really need a heavy weight DI container in my application anymore. When looking at EE 7 even more of the stuff that is provided by Spring comes out of the box. One thing that I do miss in the EE specification is the handling of properties.
02 December 2013 / Publications / Metaphor
It has been some time ago that an article of mine got published in the Dutch JUG. Attached in the article i wrote. It’s in dutch :-) De toegevoegde waarde van Craftmanship (The added value of Craftmanship)
04 September 2013 / Metaphor / Rambling
Just a couple of days ago I went to the IKEA to get some cabinets for my son’s room. Why IKEA you might ask, but they have a good price v.s. quality. The cabinets I bought set me back about € 500,- instead of a €2000,- when build by a carpenter. While putting them together with my 6 year old son I thought of this title. Only thing missing was the content of the post.
02 July 2013 / Maven / Howto / Did_You_Know
TheMaven Site plugin uses by default theapt format. Although it is a simple and straight forward format I personally prefer the Confluence markup and DocBook. Confluence I use for my personal Wiki and at various projects I use DocBook for the documentation. Under the hood of theMaven site plugin runs the Doxia plugin. The documentation of the Site plugin is not really clear on this part. I stumbled on this some time ago.