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How to draw lolcats

Peter Hilton — Tue, 27 May 2008 14:55:32 +0000

In his excellent book The Invisible Computer, Donald Norman explains the computer changing from something you might have one of at home (a multi-purpose PC) to an unseen component in special-purpose devices from washing machines and refrigerators to portable telephones and music players. The same thing is happening with graphics software, and this article considers one specific example. Along the way, I also explain how to produce cat macros.

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Nouvelles technologies de développement - FPI 2008 in Nice

Nicolas Leroux — Mon, 19 May 2008 13:32:46 +0000

Last week Stephane Epardaud and Nicolas Leroux, senior software developers at Lunatech Research, presented “Nouvelles technologies de développement en JEE” at the Forum des Professions Informatique 2008 in Nice.

The conference was organised by the University of Nice and it was rather pleasant to discuss with the students and other I.T. professionals. Thanks again for the invitations.

This is also the start of a new Open Source project that will be used as a show case for new technologies (JBoss Seam, JPA, EJB 3, Hibernate Search, etc…). The project is available here. We will try to write some nice tutorials and articles about it. More to come on this web, so keep posted.

In the meantime, you can download the presentation slides in French (PDF, 0.5 Mb).

You can send your comments nicolas+fip@lunatech.com.

Benelux JBoss User Group, 20 June 2008

Nicolas Leroux — Fri, 16 May 2008 08:25:40 +0000

We would like to invite you to our fourth Benelux JBoss User Group meeting: an afternoon of free technical sessions presented by JBoss developers.

The JBoss User Group is growing and even our last location is now too small, so once again we arranged something special: we will meet in the Staal Zaal in Rotterdam. i-Portal Rotterdam has kindly agreed to sponsor the event by providing us with a sumptuous room.

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Bean validation in Java EE

Stéphane Épardaud — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:05:16 +0000

Abstract

This article talks about the process of validation in Java EE, more specifically about Hibernate Validation and Bean Validation. We start by describing why we need validation, what solutions are available, how we use them and why they are great. We then proceed to describe their limitations, and offer proposals for resolving those limitations in the hope that the future Bean Validation standard will incorporate our (or similar) solutions.

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We are hiring Java EE / J2EE developers (Rotterdam)

Michael Pentowski — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:08:32 +0000

Lunatech is looking to hire some clever Java EE developers for our Rotterdam office. If you are interested in joining a great company, please have a look at our job posting.

It is hard to find qualified and motivated Java developers, but we know you are out there. If you have ever considered working in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and want to work in an amazing office with a great team using the latest Java technologies, please contact us.

RESTful web services in Java EE with RESTeasy (JAX-RS)

Stéphane Épardaud — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:22:25 +0000

This article describes how we implemented RESTful web services in our Seam-based Java EE web application.

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Seam is the new Struts

Peter Hilton — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:10:59 +0000

After Nicolas and I said that ‘Seam is the next Struts’ in our JavaPolis presentation, Max told us that ‘Gavin will hate that’, which is funny because of how it takes our statement out of context. This article is the context.

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JBoss User Group - photos

Peter Hilton — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 08:44:56 +0000

Here are some photos from Friday’s Benelux JBoss User Group event at Paddy Murphy’s Irish Pub in Rotterdam. The event was a great success with around 60 attendees making this a relatively large JBoss User Group. (more…)

Marketing books for developers

Peter Hilton — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 10:36:53 +0000

To a software developer, ‘marketing’ is more likely to be a department that another kind of people belong to, than an activity that everyone should participate it. This could be because people outside The Marketing Department are actually forbidden from involvement, or even because of the Dilbert TV series episode where he accidentally destroys a successful company by introducing a marketing department. Although no single book is likely to restore this disastrous reputation among developers, there are at least a few good ones that entertain while broadening the picture a little.

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My new PC is a Mac

Peter Hilton — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:13:59 +0000

Until recently, my desktop PC was running Linux, like all of the other desktops at Lunatech. Since it was time to get a new PC with powerful hardware, I took the opportunity to join the laptop users and switch to an Apple Mac for software development. I now have my favourite development machine ever, and not just because it is shiny either.

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