JBoss Migration Services?
Jul 26, 2005 Uncategorized
Tweet Today I have received an email with a survey from JBoss. As an extract, it says …Due to ongoing demand from our users, JBoss will soon be launching a new Migration Services program, to make the migration from commercial closed-source application servers to JBoss more efficient… ‘. I think they already have a migration [...]
Habemus Weblogic 9
Jul 26, 2005 Uncategorized
Tweet Finally, BEA has released the final version of his long awaited Weblogic Application Server 9. You can start downloading the development version here.It is J2EE 1.4 compliant, and it implements a broad range of new services dedicated to make the mission critical applications easer to implement and manage. Since most of the J2EE projects [...]
Video Streaming over P2P: Sopcast
Jul 25, 2005 Uncategorized
Tweet One of the most interesting projects recently is SopCast. The developers define it as ‘a simple, easy to use system to watch stream media on the Internet: a Network Media Broadcasting System’. Basically it allows to receive and broadcast video (and audio) signal using a P2P protocol, similar to Bittorrent. This means that while [...]
Fast prototyping with Prevayler
Jul 23, 2005 Uncategorized
Tweet When you have to build a prototype to find the approval of the customer, or just explore a possible solution to a problem, you don’t focus on a good Object Oriented design of the solution, or a detailed relational model (unless what your are trying to validate are these things!). You just focus on [...]
A CompactFlash size Linux computer
Jul 19, 2005 Uncategorized
Tweet SBCs (Single Board Computers) are rapidly growing due to the raise of the M2M (machine to machine) and embedded industry (or is it the same industry?). While the number of manufacturers grows, the size of these devices shrinks. This ucLinux computer with 32Mb and 8Mb of FLASH running inside a CompactFlash card is a [...]
SWT and multithreading
Jul 18, 2005 Uncategorized
Tweet I must admit that I have always hated Swing and AWT. It took me several weeks to (fully?) understand all the events stuff. Regarding the GUI, I was a VB guy, and that means dragging and dropping visual components. In the early days it was slow, very slow. I remember running a Swing application [...]
Data GPRS/UMTS fees in Spain
Jul 17, 2005 Uncategorized
Tweet I have found this article (spanish) about the cost of a data connection in Spain. It compares the different price plans of the three mobile operators in Spain: Amena, Vodafone and Movistar. It’s nice to see how prices have dropped dramatically in order to increase the traffic data, specially UMTS.
Back again
Jul 17, 2005 Uncategorized
Tweet I had tons of work last weeks, so I dropped my ‘relationship’ with my blog. I hope that my work and my life let me dedicate some time to the blog.
