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iOS 101: How to convert a String to a NSDate

During my vacations, I took some time to play with iOS development. I have been struggling with many small issues... This is the price to pay when learning a new technology, and this is part of the fun of doing it. I will try to document some of these issues in articles... Let's start with a very common story : working with date.

VirtualBox: How to clone a virtual machine?

During some testing I had to put in place a cluster on my network. So I create a first virtual machine. It is not possible to directly copy the Virtual Disk Image (.vdi). VirtualBox saved in each disk image a UUID that is also store inside the virtual machine image. VirtualBox does not support two images with the same number. So to clone the an image you need to use the VBoxManage clonehd command line.

USI2009: The Geek and Boss French Conference

This year I was lucky enough to have a presentation at the second edition of the "Université du SI", organized by Octo Technologies. I have to say that this conference is one of the best that I have attended, for sure it is the best in France. Unfortunately I was only able to attend the first day of the conference, but even in one day, I was very happy with the content of the presentations, keynotes, and networking opportunities.

JAX-WS: How to configure the service end point at runtime?

When deploying your Web Service client you often need to change the endpoint of the service that has been set during the code generation. This short post explains how you can set change it at runtime in the client code.