Monthly Archives: December 2009
5 of My Favorite DZone Refcardz
If you haven’t heard of the DZone Refcardz and you are a developer, consider this your Christmas present. From me to you. DZone has been producing those little cheat sheets for a while now and they have built up a pretty nice collection. Each refcard contains a condensed overview of a certain piece of technology [...]
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eBooks on the iPod Touch, a Case of Hit-or-Miss
I’ve always stayed away from eBooks, certainly the paid ones. It never felt natural to read them on a screen. But with Manning running a few great promotions, I thought I’d go for it and bought me a book or two on the cheap. Now, about reading them. Lately, I have been using my iPod [...]
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2010 is almost here and I like to end 2009 with a clean slate. One of those slates that needs cleaning is my starred items in Google Reader. I tend to star everything that looks like it might be interesting. The idea is that I can back to it later when I have a little [...]
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Maven Simplifies Seam and Facelets Development, if You Can Handle the XML
As part of my digitization and cleanup effort, I’m going through a lot of documents. One document I discovered is an old printout of a Coffeecrew tutorial. The document on Facelets, Seam, NetBeans and Glassfish was their first and last foray into English howto’s. Which is too bad, because it is high quality and has [...]
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GlassFish Application Server Development with NetBeans
The GlassFish v3 preview offers a glimpse at Java EE 6 and some of the benefits it will bring. Fast redeployment alone is worth taking a look at this new server. But Java EE 6 also standardizes many features that make life of a developer a lot easier. Most of those have been available in [...]
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Bioshock, Searching the RPG Inside
I’ve recently sunk some time in Bioshock and I’d like to share some of my thoughts on the game. First, it has been hailed as the spiritual successor to System Shock 2. And in many ways it is. It has the same spooky feel and the same multiple-solutions-for-the-same-problem approach. Which I like. Where it differs, [...]
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Mixing Media, the Lost Jigsaw Puzzles
Amazon.co.uk Widgets Those who have followed the blog for some time, probably already know that I love alternate reality games and the mixing of different types of media. Once again, I’ve been suckered into buying stuff I really don’t have time for: the Lost jigsaw puzzles. I’m a huge fan of the series, especially the [...]
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Alcatraz’ the Bastardo EP, a Short Essay on Following Impulses
A lot of the stuff I buy is just an impulse decision. One afternoon, I decide I’d like a new music cd for the car. I go out and return with 5 cd’s, a few games and maybe a book. These days, I don’t do it all that often anymore, mostly because I simply don’t [...]
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Avalon, a Fairy Tale to Relax and Discover