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people4objects.org
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Have you ever wondered how and when an idea was developed? Would you have liked to see how the corresponding lines of programming code were written to make a dream come true? Are you interested how the people behind the code are like and how they behave...
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LINQ - Language INtegrated Queries - are a developers dream come true. Queries are an integral part of the primary programming language. They are typesafe, compile-time checked, refactorable and autocompleted by the IDE. If you want to read up more on...
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Whenever I have spent too much time in front of a computer, it's a healthy exercise to create something with my hands. Here is a picture from my most recent project: The reading corner in front of the fireplace is now surrounded by a new bookshelf. I...
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After a very intense week in Berlin, I am happy to be back home. Zora is happy too. Cats are angels....
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The icoodb helped to find the missing LINQ . I also found one of my own. IT all makes sense now....
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Yesterday I gave Google Earth a try to see what the Sky view looks like. Playing around, I decided to switch on all content layers around my area. ( 47°51'49.49"N, 11°22'41.96"E ) Happily I discovered that the virtual world around our place is not yet...
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Today seems to be a good day to buy companies. Sun buys MySQL Oracle buys BEA ...and the day has only yet begun. Let's see what happens next. Tim O'Reilly has commented on the price for MySQL....
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Finally social bookmarking starts to be fun. I really like DZone and the way voting works there. You really get "fresh links for developers". Reading along the Popular Links Feed I feel better informed about what's going on than I ever was before. For...
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If marketing would always have as much influence on release dates as it does in the software industry, airplanes would probably fly like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZq4sZz56qM Sometimes I wonder if I have the right job. I am considering the...
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I want to use this opportunity to thank all of you who have contributed to a great year 2007! In 2007, we have continued to make db4o's cutting edge persistence technology available to many more Java and .NET developers, growing our community of registered...
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...it depends... Well yeah, of course it does. "Good" means nothing at all without "good at what". Three of the key metrics are of course: speed memory consumption size of the code base Here is a very nice website that let's you weight what you are interested...
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If you are interested in Scala , make sure you watch this interview with Martin Odersky , the key designer of the language. In case you don't know Scala yet: It's a fusion of functional programming and object-orientation, taking the very best of both...
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It has been a week since the Android software development stack for mobile devices has been released. For me as the founder of the db4o object database this has been one of the most exciting events in the lifetime of our product and our company. Android...
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Enjoy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyLqUf4cdwc Programming Perl from Notepad doesn't seem to work yet. Tight integration with Eclipse could be supercool though, if speech recognition could be smart about what makes sense in a certain context. Imagine...
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Though I am not utterly convinced yet that Google will be as successful to 'embrace' the handset with the Android/OHA initiative as it is with search&more in the web and on PCs, I am absolutely excited about the technical choices the developers made...
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Inspired by testing db4o with 200 clients on my machine (and running out of memory because each client needs 15 MB for a normal JDK6 Java VM) and after doing a 30 minute timeout test between Germany and China with Andrew (actually he was connecting through...
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I am happy to announce my participation in the first international conference on object databases in this century, the icoodb 2008 , which our friend Stefan Edlich organizes at the University of Applied Sciences in Berlin on March 13 and 14, 2008. I will...
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Yesterday I started reading in Beautiful Code a book that Patrick has recommended to the team. The chapter on Beautiful Debugging immediately caught my eye: Why shouldn't the debugger automatically find the change that broke the tests? This is big, it...
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If you want to know the schedule and/or the scope of Java 7, David Flanagan's posting to java.net is very informative. Apparently we will have to wait a little bit longer for Java closures . 2009, really? Two more years? If Eclipse IDE support were just...
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We have been a pretty loyal customers to SFDC in the past, mostly because of the systems being up and running by the time that Sugar hit the marketplace, so that switching cost kept us from looking at alternatives, especially open source ones, so far....
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db4objects has raised additional funds to grow its operations in response to its fast growing user community and customer base. We're very happy to welcome Palo Alto-based Asset Management to our circle of investors and Skip Fleshman to our board of directors....
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Some weeks ago I talked to Ralph Westphal about Software Transactional Memory. Apparently he liked the idea so he simply wrote his own implementation . Amazing. The code of Ralf's implementation is very nice to understand: Ralf uses a Dictionary to associate...
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Quoting Miguel de Icaza on Silverlight : "Needless to say, we believe that Silverlight is a fantastic development platform..." From my own short look at the source code of Lutz Roeder's samples , I fully agree. This is how web application development...
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I really like how Ohloh has integrated maps into the system. If you sign up with a profile and edit your location, you can see small yellow balloons of other open source people in your neighborhood on your personal map. Here is mine . Projects also have...
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If you are interested in the latest trends around parallel computing, you should subscribe to the Thinking Parallel blog by Michael Suess. Make sure to read the series of interviews with Parallel Programming idols ....
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