Enjoying Solaris Internals. I wish Linux … February 24, 2008

Enjoying Solaris Internals. I wish Linux were as well-documented as this!

Thinking if I need to upgrade my persona … February 19, 2008

Thinking if I need to upgrade my personal R&D desktop PC. A quad core platform? I got spoiled by the Ultrasparc T1. Now if the Intel Q9xxx’s are settled in by May or so… Til then, just need to put my old PC back up. Buy a new monitor. See what I can do with 1 GB RAM – it’s a DDR machine, so upgrading memory is expensive. Memory is the bottleneck, as the 2.4 Ghz Celeron D is still fine.

I’m surprised. The EJB 3.0 book is quit … February 19, 2008

I’m surprised. The EJB 3.0 book is quite easy to understand. I hope real development is just as easy.

Now reading the EJB 3.0 book by Monson-H … February 17, 2008

Now reading the EJB 3.0 book by Monson-Haefel and Burke. I haven’t been doing much Java EE, traditional or new school, so I need to catch up. The good thing about EJB 3 is that the persistence is JPA so I can use it in standalone programs.

OpenJDK should also extend the life span … February 14, 2008

OpenJDK should also extend the life span of the JVM and class libraries. Even while the language is being challenged.

Great the OpenJDK is released. Finally, … February 14, 2008

Great the OpenJDK is released. Finally, my Java work runs on an open source (actually Free Software – GPL) platform. I hope an Ubuntu package is available soon. I’ll also try to build it from source.

Looks like PinoyWebStartup is on to some … February 13, 2008

Looks like PinoyWebStartup is on to something. Must compose a longer post on my blog.

Was supposed to study Scala. No time, th … February 13, 2008

Was supposed to study Scala. No time, thanks to Java studying. How timely, now that many articles come out.

Now that makes me forget about about the … February 13, 2008

Now that makes me forget about about the Java NIO book I added to my Safari. NIO is a topic that I wanted to study before, since I wanted to get into “low level Java.” But, I can barely use it now, and it’s quite boring.

I agree with the Amazon reviews. Horstma … February 13, 2008

I agree with the Amazon reviews. Horstmann’s Core Java book is well-written. Very engaging.