Archive for 2004

Last week i stopped working at my good old workplace (Acure) and tomorrow i’ll start working full time at JBoss as developer & consultant. Shifting from working with Hibernate in my precious sparetime to do it full time is going to do good things for both me and the project – can’t wait

Just received a new laptop box, and as always i’m using hours to configure it just right Now that i’ve done that quite some times the last few years I wanted to write down the stuff I normally install on such beasts. Here it goes: Opera – still the fastest and most resource efficient browser [...]

I’ve just read that IBM is going to opensource the feature rich and robust Java only database called Cloudscape. That is surely great news – at least if it has kept it’s lightweight footprint and ease-of-use from the last time I used it (a couple of years ago). The not so great thing is that [...]

We are in the process of porting some application to IBM WS 5.1 which unfortunately(?) require us to move from SUN JVM to IBM JVM. First I thought that would be nice since IBM JVM normally have better performance and especially have much better trace and debug information. ….BUT one thing is really killing me [...]

We have a nice little audit log in our applications. One that contains a line for each “start” and “stop” for each event/process that can occur in the system. Each line contains information about when, what, who, where – all stuff that can be used to track down whoever did something….but it is also a [...]

…or at least not a lot of them. Today we just discovered that ONE session in our fat/slim client serialized about 1 MB of data over the wire! 1 meg is alot! …. more investigation showed that the amount of objects looked right, but we could not understand why they were so big! The reason [...]

I’m searching for a lightweight SMTP implementation that is NOT dependent on JavaMail….particularly i’m looking for it to have a lightweight mailAppender for Log4j. I can find EasySMTP referenced a couple of places but the site seems dead and it is also GPL which makes it impossible for me to use ;(