Scala and twitter
By stumbled on a presentation by API lead of Twitter on Scala. For a moment I hoped Twitter was developed, but the language used at Twitter is Ruby. The speaker…
Frustation on JBoss
For some application I need a notion of ‘shared state’ within a cluster of computers within a network. The software will have to run on JBoss. Yesterday I had successfully…
Flex, Spring and Java
Last year I worked with a collegue on a software project. As I architect I set up a backend. As frontend technology we used flex. As backend technology, we used…
Combining Flex and Scala using Liftweb and BlazeDS
I wanted to setup a sample project that uses Flex and Scala. I followed the excellent tutorial on FlexOnRails: Integrating Flex, BlazeDS, and Scala/Lift. The tutorial helps a lot explaining…
Pattern in RIA
The Flex framework is getting more and more populair, and other similar RIA-frameworks as JavaFX and Sliverlight get a lot of attention. Some people see Flex as a alternative for…
Scala release
The final release of Scala 2.7.3 is out! You can download the release from the scala-download page. Some background: Scala is a elegant language that runs on the JavaVM. Unlike…
Trying to do good for the wrong reasons
Many programmers with at least some education computer science code by a few principles: Encapsulate database access, using Data Access Objects so we’re not tied to one or another database…
Parallel execution of SQL
The end of increasing clockspeeds The clock-speed for processors doesn’t increase anymore due to physical limits. The only way for processor-makers like Intel and AMD to increase the speed of…
Devoxx’08
This posting is a translation of the posting on my old weblog Devoxx’08 in Dutch. Of all the presentations that I’ve seen, this is my top: From Concurrent to Parallel…
Welcome
Welcome to my new weblog on ICT. I am Gerbrand van Dieijen, JEE consultant with a broad interest in all aspects of software-engineering. On this weblog I’ll post thoughts, opinions,…