Beware, Apple TV warranty isn't worldwide
When I was in the USA I bought an Apple TV and brought it back home to Belgium.Last night, it broke down entirely after just a couple of months of operation. When I hook it up to the power socket,...
View ArticleRequest for help : first time I have to deal with a patent infringement...
I'm reaching out to the collective experience of my readers. Today I received a letter from a US attorney that claims that Bla-bla List infringes on US Patent No. 6,917,941.Bla-bla List has just been...
View ArticleChannel Intelligence vs. Uwyn : thoughts after the first day
Thanks a lot everyone for all your helpful comments. It's heartwarming to see how many people care and manifest their support.I already had some informal legal assistance and it seems that causing a...
View ArticleDid Channel Intelligence jump the gun with the European patent complaints?
The official complaint from Channel Intelligence states the US patent number but it only vaguely mentions that they 'own the foreign equivalents'. I thus decided to search for them, and I found this:...
View ArticleChannel Intelligence patent : abundance of prior art
Since the European patent that Channel Intelligence tries to sue us with doesn't seem to be granted yet. I'm now looking for prior art to stop the patent from being awarded. This could make this...
View ArticleChannel Intelligence's European patent application is in bad shape
Today one of the Belgian patent information centers got back to me to discuss the state of Channel Intelligence's European patent application. They confirm that the patent is indeed still under...
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Game Review : Alone in the Dark for XBox 360
This is a first for me, I don't usually review games. I like Alone in the Dark so much thought, that I felt like talking about it.I bought this game after having read all the bad reviews out there....
View ArticleJavaZone 2008 : Bytecode Manipulation in the Real World
I just finished my talk at JavaZone 2008 about bytecode manipulation.You can download the presentation's PDF file from:http://uwyn.com/download/bytecode_real_world.pdfThis is the abstract:Bytecode...
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First recordings of my new band ... check it out!
I've been extremely busy during the last months since I picked up music again alongside my day-job. You might have noticed from the severe lack of blog posts that I didn't have much time to spare I...
View ArticleHow do you use Hibernate Extended Sessions?
The Open Session in View pattern is very popular when Hibernate is used in a web application. This allows you to safely use managed entities when your view is being rendered. At Terracotta, we're...
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My first YouTube video : Robert Plant cover song
I picked music back up after a loooong hiatus of 7 years. I decided to evolve together with the world and to broadcast myself .Did the first one last night. The song is "All The Kings Horses" from...
View ArticleTerracotta 3.1: Introduction to Examinator
Terracotta 3.1GA was released a few days ago and sports some interesting new features that are specifically geared towards clustering Hibernate second level caches.I decided to create a series of video...
View ArticleFix for slower startup and shutdown times since Snow Leopard 10.6.1
Ever since I upgraded to Snow Leopard 10.6.1, my MacBook Pro startup and shutdown was much slower than before.I searched for a quite a while on forums to find the solution, but nobody seemed to know a...
View ArticleThe sanitization of Ehcache's Cache constructors
We've all been there, you start with a class and a simple constructor that makes total sense. As time goes by, you keep adding features and the list of constructor arguments grows … and grows … until …...
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I'm available for work
As of next month I'll be available for work.Eigenlabs is moving towards a non-profit charity foundation and I'll only sporadically work as a freelancer for them when the need arises. I've been asked if...
View ArticleGotcha: using RIFE's bean-centric validation with Terracotta (or any entity...
RIFE has a unique approach towards validation which is centralized around bean instances and not bean classes.Instead of having an external validation service, each bean instance publishes meta data...
View ArticleReviving RIFE, starting work on version 2
Hi everyone, I'm not sure at all who's still active in the server-side web development world, but it seemed best to reach out through the old channels in case some people are interested in reviving...
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