Recently, I’ve had several interesting discussion on the relationship between “databases” and “systems”. It comes down to this: Should there be many databases on a single system (m:1, the traditional approach), or should there be many systems underneath one database (1:m, grid)? And when is 1:1 appropriate?
Current hardware is powerful enough to allow “supernodes” that [...]

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Some people seem to have either too much time in their hands or are exorbitant effective spending time and energy in order to produce beauty in a browser. Take a look at YUI in combination with Yahoo.ext: just for the sake of showing an example, Jack Slocum, the creator of Yeahoo.ext, has build a rich frontend on top [...]

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This should have been posted yesterday but just listen to the podcast or read the transcript from the team that gave use one of my favourive programming toys.
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[dutch announcement]
Hoge beschikbaarheid: Hoe houd ik het simpel?
Nu de 24-uurs economie een feit is, worden aan IT systemen soms draconische eisen gesteld, al dan niet vastgelegd in loodzware SLA’s. Aanbieders van systemen vallen over elkaar heen met high-tech oplossingen om deze extreme beschikbaarheid waar te maken, met bijbehorende prijskaartjes. En uw systemen worden steeds complexer. [...]

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For our current session management we use the Session supplied by the Application Module in ADF BC. We like putting our userdata in that place because we can code autorisation in the Model and not care about it in the View. However our customer was having trouble being logged out quite often. First we thought [...]

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[bandwagonesque mode on]
Back in the nineties OO Developers were either hard core c++ hackers or a more modest but effecient python programmers (or maybe japanese lone wolf ruby writers). Nowadays, script language practitioners are called script-kiddies and real developers use Java or C#. Ten years ago programming was all about compiling your human readable files into native machine code, today we [...]

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Today I received the fourth newsletter from the JavaPolis organization, “Only 88 days before the JavaPolis rollercoaster ride of 2006 starts”. JavaPolis will be held from December 11 till 15. Oracle is on of the Premium Sponsors.
As some of you might know, one of the events on JavaPolis is the RadRACE. Last year Oracle swept [...]

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Upon entering the final stages of software development, testing enters the picture. Testing, double testing and monkey-testing (no monkeys were harmed during the project :P). But while web-development projects are growing more complex every day, you can’t be satisfied without a performance-test under extreme conditions.
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Last week I was looking into the possibility that JDevelopers offers to create webservices based on PL/SQL packages. As a webservice rookie I thought that this would be a productive way to get an idea of the options this functionality offers.
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Sometimes a simple one liner found deep down in some active message forum thread is worth a seperate blog entry.
> Apollo is cross-platform desktop technology mix that
> allows you use Flex/xHTML/Ajax/PDF on desktop, use
> filesystem, DBs, networking and so forth.
“what you describe, is a mess not an environment.”
This quote, coming from (yet another) Javalobby discussion [...]

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