Geir Wavik a coworked at Miles published a greate article about using div tags in html (instead of tables). It got a lot of attention in the web-developer community. It was even interesting for a guy with…

As some people know I’m not very fond of complexity. Old J2EE/EJB based solutions is some of the worst beasts around. Working for a client I have spent some time removing the EJB bindings and moving the code from a big vendor application server to Jetty. The greate news is that is quite easy to do if your EJBs are running inside the same server.  To avoid making changes to the business code, I did a minor implementation of an InitalContextFactory so that the old lookup-code would work. Then having a new Bean class extend the EJB-bean and also implementing the home interface, all the old...

I’m been invited to talk about Cloud Computing at annual Geilo seminar hosted by DND. Kudos to Eirik M. for recommending me to the organizers. The theme is going to be if Amazon EC2 is ready for using mission critial systems.  I’ll probably use parts of the Javazone 2008 demo I did of EC2 and some new stuff I’ve been working on.

First I didn’t really see what the difference between the old engine and the new was, but after a couple of weeks  of use I’m totally convinced.  The fixture code is much cleaner since it’s without inheritance to the old fixture classes, hence they can be used from Junit-tests directly. Using Fitnesse as a part of CI from Hudson was a big pain in the … Using it withTrinidad it works like charm. No more hung processes. Amazing!