I was introduced to Oracle’s TopLink ORM package during my second internship at Oracle. Although the API (because TopLink actually became the reference implementation for the JPA 2.0) seemed a bit overwhelming at first, I’ve managed to get a grasp of it quite fast, allowing me to finish the assigned projects in time. The familiarity
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A considerable amount of my diploma project runs on several virtual machines, due to the lack of multiple physical machines required for the job. Of course, Riker isn’t tailored for production regarding this project, but it was built specifically to allow me to develop the code without restrictions. For a load under 10 users I
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Having to write an article dealing with a part of my diploma project for the Students’ Papers Session in my University, I discovered that some fonts (particularly “ș” and “ț”) were displayed awkward in Writer, the word processing software from OpenOffice.org. By awkward I mean that “ș” and “ț” were using other fonts than “s”
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Booting Ubuntu from an USB stick is both fast and convenient: fast because an USB stick definitely has better R/W speeds than CDs, convenient because you can alter those files for how many times you want without buying several storage mediums (you could use a CD-RW, but that still would be slow). Nowadays USB sticks
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A great man once said: Only wimps use tape backup: real men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it ;) While it works for him, for us pure mortals this trick doesn’t get the job done. That’s why we have to use backups. Protecting your data is
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