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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-06

@rickss euhhh you should be designing banners instead in reply to rickss #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-30

finally found the magic keywords that make us appear first in google http://screencast.com/t/xyZxF0cCF9m #
nice : http://www.rtbf.be/tv/revoir #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-16

Au coach
http://bit.ly/2aFLmO #
Waiting in line …
http://bit.ly/ioWCj #

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Paperless Office using the Fujitsu ScanSnap S510 on OS X

I have been using the Fujitsu ScanSnap S510M at home for about 6 month now and it has given very good results. We are now scanning everything and it already saved my life a couple of times (i might be exagerating a bit  To get good results, the scanner is not enough. I use [...]

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Quote of the day #1

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from
a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch
never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start
over, beginning with a working simple system.
—John Gall
seen on Signal vs. Noise

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The switch

After a first unsuccessful trial, I finally dumped my dell laptop and started working on a Macbook Pro 15”.
And I must say that I am still amazed at how things just work. Here is my setup :
Hardware :

Macbook Pro 15” 4Gb Ram, 320Gb HD 7200 rpm

Software installed :

PathFinder as file browser
IntelliJ as Java IDE
Skitch
Things [...]

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Let’s put Hibernate to sleep ?

Don’t get me wrong, Hibernate is a great tool written by very smart people, but I keep wondering how this technology has become so popular.
Maybe it’s just me, but for the past 3 years now I have not come across one single developer that grasps half of the concepts needed to understand how Hibernate works. [...]

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What do they learn in school ?

In the past year we hired two junior java developers and I am starting to wonder what they really learn in school. Don’t get me wrong, we are more than happy with our new collegues but since I am starting to get to know them very well by now I am entitled to raise this [...]

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What is really in the JDK ?

For a while I’ve started counting the number of external JAR’s i’m using in a given project. I usually try to make sure that every one of them is “needed”. Now as a rough statistic, the last 3 projects I worked on had

34 Mb dependencies (cocoon project – lot of XML stuff
30 Mb [...]

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