There are some things that work well with Apple's mobile.me service like the Calendar, the Address book syncing all over your macs and iDevices, the email (when accessed through their client software). There are also many other things that mobile.me sucks and yes -despite the fact I am a loyal Apple customer and fan - …

As they say, better late than never. I have to admit that for years now I have been typing in the terminal long ant task/target names, when I just wanted to execute or built something. At some point when I had to deal with long names such as jbpm.deploy.proc.dbclean etc I ended up creating aliases (a nice feature of …

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Wow this is it, the peak of the conference has just passed. Another full day is completed full of interesting talks. Tomorrow I will be able to attend only the first maybe the second session and then I will have to head for the Brussels airport and Athens. I will be writing a final post during the flight I guess. So …

This is it, the official conference has started, lots of talks lots of action so let me begin. Session1: Keynote Stephan Janssen, the conference leader and beJUG leader opened the keynote with some statistics regarding this year's Devoxx. 3000 attendees, 150 speakers, a Wi-Fi infrastructure that is able to support most …

It is really foggy today at Antwerp, but nobody can stop us for one more day of Java and development tech knowledge overdose. Other sessions: Eventually you can not attend everything but some sessions produced some buzz on twitter. There 2 things noted down. JCite : A Java Source code citation system Presentation about …

Well here we go, it is almost 12:30 am and I am just back to my hotel room. It must have been something like 10-11 hours of Devoxxing - and that was only the start. Despite the fact that I feel a bit tired and brain drained - I am forcing my self to write the day's review so that friends, colleagues or anyone …

In the last 5 years things have been very simple for me when it comes combining my several user profiles in one operating system and hardware platform. The simplicity and the it just works feeling for the home - power user and the convenient feeling that on top of that I can do my day job, coding and making my living …

It was a fascinating afternoon at work trying to properly address an interesting problem. Always very pleasant to discuss and elaborate with some of my colleagues, like Dimitris Sapounas. Many Thanks to Dimitris for the much appreciated discussion and tips. 1. A common problem - Transacted actions, operations within a …

The story: Well it was quite an unusual thing to see. The production system was slowly showing signs of multiple Timer threads (idle) being created- rapidly. The more the execution boosted the more Timer threads created. That is something not good and the Thread Dumps + JVM statistics were indicating that something was …