http://www.lunatech-research.com Mon, 23 Jun 2008 08:18:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.lunatech-research.com/archives/2008/05/27/how-to-draw-lolcats 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. ... http://www.lunatech-research.com/archives/2008/05/19/fip-2008 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 ... http://www.lunatech-research.com/archives/2008/05/16/jbug-2008-06 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 ... http://www.lunatech-research.com/archives/2008/05/09/bean-validation 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 ... http://www.lunatech-research.com/archives/2008/04/28/we-are-hiring-java-ee-j2ee-developers-rotterdam This article describes how we implemented RESTful web services in our Seam-based Java EE web application. http://www.lunatech-research.com/archives/2008/03/20/restful-web-sevices-resteasy-jax-rs 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. http://www.lunatech-research.com/archives/2008/03/17/seam-is-the-new-struts 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. http://www.lunatech-research.com/archives/2008/03/03/jbug-2008-02-photos 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 ... http://www.lunatech-research.com/archives/2008/02/18/marketing-books-for-developers 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 ... http://www.lunatech-research.com/archives/2008/02/11/my-new-pc-is-a-mac