Last week, I visited my beloved Belgium, Ghent specifically, for this year's Oracle Community Leaders summit. A 2 day mini conference that aims to bring together, community leaders of various kinds within the Oracle Technology _universe'. This was my second Jug/Leaders summit, the previous one was a couple of years ago …

Wow, that was fast and smooth. It seems that OCZ has done a very good job on providing support tools for Mac users. I don't know if that was the case in the previous years but I just flashed the latest firmware to my Vertex 3 SSD in 10 seconds, rebooted and I am up and running again! All you need is actually go through …

It's been a long day and here I am after a long walk to the Antwerp docks, back to my hotel room blogging about my first conference date, for the university phase of Devoxx 2012. Registration . Early start in the morning, since I wanted to be on time for pre-registration and welcome package handling. Eventually all …

For the last 3 weeks or so, I have been using BitBucket to privately host one of my late night coding experiments, along with my friend and co-jug leader Panos. It is a private git/mercurial repository service and it's been around for a while, it is also free to use with a limit of 5 user accounts per repository. The …

Eventually, I still spend most of my professional time, developing Enterprise Java Applications that are heavily dependent on mainstream RDBM(es) (Oracle, MySQL etc) and designed based on the Relational DB paradigm/ data modelling. My exposure to systems and technologies like Hadoop or other NoSQL specific DB systems …

Another quick late night Eclipse test hack I guess. Well it is the Java application that I use the most, meaning at least 9-10 hours per day. In my case it is a long running instance, I try to garbage collect once in a while and in general I am pissed when I do have a crash or delays, since I am working on fairly large …

Back in June, I tried the first release of Eclipse (4.2.x) aka Juno, on my MacOSX laptop. The underlying VM on my system was JDK6 at that point. Unfortunately, the results were terrible, I was not able to complete a single line of code with no lagging and freezing in the code editor. I created a question/topic on …

My case: I have been using a recent version of liquibase (2.0.5). For various reasons and mostly simplicity, in terms of moving straight away from the model of keeping my own SQL statements and applying them manually,to the context of Liquibase and it's automation, I have been using the formated sql changeset/log …

I am not a huge fan of DB specific and DB oriented development. For years now I have been participating in projects using different systems like MySQL, Ingress, SQLServer and of course Oracle. The last one one (Oracle) seems to be dominating in these recent years in most of the projects I _ve seen. When it comes to …

Thanks for the sabotage .to our life. it's a pitty I never made it for a live .so pitty!