SQL Performance

If you have to access persisted data, of course, you do not have to necessarely use SQL. But in case you do, knowing something about SQL-performance helps. I just did…

Friend of Eclipse

I just became friend of Eclipse. The new version Kepler is available for friends of Eclipse, which is a good reason to do something I planned to do before.  

Gesture

Lots of SF movies and futerist though that the future interface of the computer would be voice: talking to your computer like it was a human. Nothing less is true:…

Lean overheid

Quite a while, my top posting was about waste at the government.  Now something more positive on waste, and other lean subjects: I recently read the book ‘Een lean overheid‘.…

Filesystem notifications in Java

Inspired by an OS that went in oblivion some years ago (BeOS) operating systems as Windows, Linux and MacOS all have ways to monitor directories for changes built into the…

Money waste at the government

The (Dutch) website Computable has a interesting article on how awful it is the government wastes enormous amounts of money on it-projects. With that regard a report by System Error…

Databases on SSD

SSD disk are becoming increasingly popular. As they read faster, you might consider running databases such as Oracle DBMS, MySQL or non-sql databases. However, interestingly, originally databases are optimized for…

Diginotar

I just updated my (virtual) server, on which this weblog is running too. The update log was rather interesting this time: Setting up tzdata-java (2011j-0ubuntu0.11.04) … Setting up ca-certificates (20090814+nmu2ubuntu0.1)…