Whitebook on parallel programming
Via the newsletter of Whitehorses, the company I work for, an article written by me is published: Gebruik de multi-core omgeving met Java 7 . As the title suggest, the…
Author: gerbrand
JFall on Google Guice
Yesterday I’ve submitted a paper to NLJUG, the Dutch Java User Group for the JFall 2009 conference. Together with colleagues we worked on a proposal for a very nice presentation…
In between LAN-sync, Dropbox
On both my laptop and my desktop computer I have Zumodrive running, a form of Internet storage I wrote about before. When I store something on my desktop while my…
JBoss on Linux
Lately I tried to run JBoss on my Linux-installation (KUBuntu 9). I got lots of java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space errors while starting JBoss 5. First I thought that had something to…
Architect
Do you call yourself architect, while you’re developing software or telling other people how to program? At least in the Netherlands, calling yourself Architect is illegal when you’re not a…
Clean code
Recently I read the book Clean Code by Robert C. Martin. I was very pleasently surprised by the book. The book was well written, for me it was a page-turner. The…
Breaking SMS security
I wrote some time ago about false sense of security in many secure applications such as internet-banking. Now one of the predictions I made have become reality, as you can…
Generics support for Apache commons collections
In my day to day work program I use the Apache Commons library quite a lot. One of those libraries is the commons collections library, of which I use the…
Alternative to SQL
Database alternative, for people just browsing and scanning, I’ll write in staccato. Relational model pretty good, but we need a better implementation of the relational model, SQL, at least the…
Diagram software
Sometimes a diagram says more then a thousands words. That being said, what is good software to draw diagrams? I could quickly draw a diagram on my paper notepad, but…