The good and bad of PLC ethernet... in hotels
I am traveling visiting partner and pleased to see that I have internet access in my room. Unfortunately it is not Wifi access but not that bad, but with PLC (Power line communication)...
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Paris 'SOA Forum' feedback; and little comments about SOA projects
This week I have attended a SOA conference in Paris the SOA Forum. (I was not there in 2006). This event is not a technical event targeted towards developers but mainly oriented for IT managers and decision makers. This day was well attended, around 200 people. The content and more important the questions and round tables provide a good snapshot of how SOA is adopted.
Free Burma: International Bloggers' Day for Burma on the 4th of October
Free Burma!
Derek Sivers's blog: 7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails
The new post on the Ruby section of O'Reilly authored by Derek Sivers is quite interesting, starting with the title:
IDTVG and Co: how to merge meetic and expedia
With all the Web 2.0/Social Networking noise we are all used to "virtually socialize", but now you can use it to do more and improve the quality of your trips.
Prototype Windows: the best way to create 'Web 2.0' windows
I am sure that most of you already know the "Prototype Windows" project that provides a very powerful way to create windows and dialogs inside your Web pages. If you do not know it, take a look it's awesome!
Java 101: Generate a unique identifier with java.util.UUID
A friend of mine was asking me how to generate a unique ID for his application... As you probably already know Java SE 5 has introduced the java.util.UUID class to easily generate Universally Unique Identifier (UUID). As usual Wikipedia is a great starting point to learn more about UUID.
OracleAS OC4J and Java EE releases....
This morning I was helping a customer to debug some Web Services deployment issues, when I simply realized that the error was coming from the fact that he was trying to deploy a JAX-RPC service on a OracleAS 10gR2 server; where it is not supported/available.
Visiting Paris with Velib (new bike transit system)
I was in Paris last week end so I took this as a good opportunity to visit the city using the new "Velib" system. Velib is a new self service rental bike system that the city of Paris and JCDecaux put in place on July 15th. So you can take and return any of the 10,000+ bikes in any of the 750 locations all around Paris. I believe that Paris wants to a total number of 20,000 bikes for 1,400 locations.
BPEL in Cluster: In which node my process is working
I was helping a customer with his BPEL in cluster and we needed to follow the flow and on which machine the instance was running.