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Despite my interest in all things Ruby especially Ruby on Rails, I’ve decided to have a look at some powerful enterprise Java technologies. As you know, last semester, I taught Software Architecture at Masters level and I’ve become fond of using Java once more (which I used for the lab sessions).
Of course, the fact that [...]

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title: “Hibernate: a powerful enterprise Java technology”,
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Hello people, the blog is back up and running, was a bit caught up lately, anyways, its working now.. yupeee.
i’ve been watching a lot of bleach lately, have to wait 2 more weeks for more episode.
Currently in a test week.. am supposed to be revizing… lol.
Well the rest is.. life life life.. had a lot [...]

Wet Wednesday! Not soaked but my office would be stinking tomorrow. This happens when there is heavy rainfalls and water would sneak into the walls and the rest is history.
Early afternoon, the meteorological station issued a torrential rain warning, which implied that schools were requested to let their students go home. Same goes for  tertiary [...]

After the happenings of today with 3 ppl dead, 2 ppl lost, loads of houses flooded, we may ask ourself,
Is Mauritius ready to face a crisis with

its existing government,
its different essential institutions responsible for monitoring the climate and taking immediate decisions and actions,
the existing infrastructure (roads, surrounding of rivers, …)
AND with a METEOROLOGICAL SERVICE [...]

Google Docs is not good enough for me. I guess I’ll stay with OpenOffice. It’s slow for large set of data.

$ ping -c 5 spreadsheet.google.com
PING spreadsheets.l.google.com (66.102.1.136) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from he-in-f136.google.com (66.102.1.136): icmp_seq=0 ttl=242 time=27.7 ms
64 bytes from he-in-f136.google.com (66.102.1.136): icmp_seq=1 ttl=242 time=27.7 ms
64 bytes from he-in-f136.google.com (66.102.1.136): icmp_seq=2 ttl=242 time=27.3 ms
64 [...]

if (avg(max(temp(next_7_days))) > 7º C ) {
    $result = &garage->work (change,$car->tires(summer));
}
We are not there yet. Damn!

Yesterday, I was involved in a car accident for the first time when I collided with another 4×4. Unfortunately, mine was the only vehicle to sustain damages; the rear of the other 4×4 was built like the front of a tank and was barely scratched.

At the police station, nobody bothered to check that we were [...]

 
Intel and Microsoft yesterday announced that they will provide $20 million over five years to two groups of university researchers that will work to design a new generation of computing systems. The goal is to prevent the industry from coming to a dead end that would halt decades of performance increases in computers. The researchers’ [...]

It’s a PC user’s dream : to be on a mac. Actually what motivates this craving desire for the mac, imho, is the look : both the hardware(the mac) and the accompanying OSX look great. It’s stylish, fresh and sleek.
But if you’re on a PC, no need to despair or hack it down to [...]

I took an hour to solve the Eintein’s Puzzle. I used a spreadsheet to help me get the answer. You can give it a try to solve this:

There are 5 houses in five different colours.  They are lined up in a row side by side.
In each house lives a person with a different nationality.
These [...]