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Yesterday, I attended a BeJUG event on JBoss Forge and Arquillian. I heard some good things about Arquillian, so I was eager to learn more about it. The nice thing about Java User Groups is that they present the opportunity to learn about new technology in a short amount of time. In that regard, I [...]

At Devoxx, I had an interesting chat with the guys from ZeroTurnaround on their LiveRebel product. LiveRebel is a Java EE server management tool, designed for making automated, instant updates to Java applications in production without server downtime. ZeroTurnaround had prepared a nice demo and I was really eager to try it myself .. on a [...]

The second part of Devoxx consists of 3 Conference Days. The talks during the Conference Days are shorter then those of the University Days. Also during the Conference Days “Quickies” are organised in between sessions; Quickies are even shorter talks (15 mins) on a very specific subject. Day 1: Methodology and Lambda expressions After the keynote, [...]

Devoxx doesn’t need much of an introduction: it is the largest vendor-independent Java conference in the world, organized by the Belgium Java User Group (BeJUG). Devoxx takes place in Antwerp and is organised yearly. In 2012 the main focus of the conference lies on Java, Android and HTML5. Devoxx 2012 partners with companies such as [...]

Recently, I read Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? by Seth Godin. While I certainly don’t agree with everything in the book, I tought it was a very interesting read. After reading the book, I took some time to make a couple of notes to reflect on what I’ve read (which I tend to do). Since a [...]

I recently acquired my HP EliteBook 8560w. I decided to install Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on it. Installation was not straightforward, but still quite easy. I wrote down my installation steps, maybe it’s useful for someone one day. In my particular case, I wanted a dual boot with Windows 7. The first 2 steps can be [...]

This is more a personal rant then anything else. Anyone who ever used Wicket, will have noticed that it tends to create some funky URL’s. In some cases, the URL will even contain the package structure of the Page we’re building. Obviously we don’t want that. Wicket provides a very easy method to make the [...]

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I’ve been doing quite a lot of Android development lately. Most of the time the API Specification and Dev Guide are quite complete, but sometimes information is difficult to find. An example of this is the TouchDelegate class. According to the Specification TouchDelegate is a “Helper class to handle situations where you want a view [...]

First applications I build for Android: Sudoku, Video player, Time Widget, …