Most probably, a lot of Java developers have seen OutOfMemory error one time or other. However these errors come in different forms and shapes. The more common is: “Exception in thread “main” java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space” and indicates that the Heap utilization has exceeded the value set by -Xmx. This is not the only error...

What do environmentalists think about Oracle? http://www.oracle.com/space/

Doug has blogged about the new movie - Closer, recently. I guess, he did not like it much, and since I trust his movie taste (and since I was REAL busy), I did not get it. Today, I was shopping at Costco and ran into Closer\’s DVD. Well, I really love Natalie Portman and respect...

IDE Like Dislike IntelliJ IDEA Real intellijent. Outstanding refactoring features. Significant number of plugins. Very heavy. Each installed plugin slows it down significantly and it is quite slow itself, too. Also, it is heavy both on RAM and CPU. Even with 1GB RAM, because of the CPU overhead I could not afford having IntelliJ on...

” ROME is a set of Atom/RSS Java utilities that make it easy to work in Java with most syndication formats. Today it accepts all flavors of RSS (0.90, 0.91 Netscape, 0.91 Userland, 0.92, 0.93, 0.94, 1.0 and 2.0) and Atom 0.3 feeds. ROME includes a set of parsers and generators for the various flavors...

Abstract Persisting domain objects is one of the most challenging aspects of designing a flexible and testable enterprise application. There are lots of examples, in the industry, when developers get it wrong and end-up either with an effectively procedural, non-object-oriented structure and/or a highly complicated, tightly coupled design which is hard to unit-test. Persistent Domain...

WooooW\r \r \ http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/invrelations/adobeandmacromedia.html

\r \ On the left - Emmanuel Cecchet - Chief Architect for ObjectWeb, on the right - Jean-Francois Arcand - Tomcat 5 Developer.\r \

17 days left…\r http://www.apple.com/\r \r Mac OS X Tiger will be released on April 29 - now official.

“A crash is when your competitor’s program dies. When your program dies, it is an ‘idiosyncrasy’. Frequently, crashes are followed with a message like ‘ID 02’, ID is an abbreviation for idiosyncrasy and the number that follows indicates how many more months of testing the product should have had” - Guy Kawasaki

Media (even international) has been covering that a duck made a nest in front (actually at the back entrance) of the White House and WH security built a fence for it, so that tourists do not bother the duck. One good thing about living in D.C. -  you can walk down there and see for...

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TSS has recently interviewed Emmanuel Cechet  the chief architect of ObjectWeb project. What seemed especially interesting to me is the part where he talked about C-JDBC project: \ What is the clustered JDBC project? Clustered JDBC is a middleware to transparently cluster databases. It means that you take your existing application running in whatever application...

I have an iPod Mini and my car only has a CD-Player, no mp3 player. Also, a lot of my music is in AAC format, nowdays, as I became a regular on the iTunes music store. So, the obvious choice was to hook-up my iPod Mini to my car stereo. Since I do not have...