My thoughts on various subjects. I particularly love hacking my work. Either by methodology or by improving my tools. Check out this list of tags / subjects.

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Two third of Hibernate Search in Action out!

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We have just pushed another set of chapters for Hibernate Search in Action and reached the symbolic limit of 2/3. Yoohoo! We have also enhanced some of the e...

JSR 303 interviews

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I have been talking, writing, preaching Bean Validation in the past six months.A few interesting links came up recently:The list of blog entries I wrote. Pro...

TimeMachine backs up too much?

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I just discovered the reason why TimeMachine was backing up so much data. I forgot to exclude my Maven and Ivy repositories :o)Here is a good tip to discover...

Why would you pay for JBoss products?

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Andy posted some of the reasons why you would want to use the JBoss subscription based platforms rather than the .org projects. During this exercise, he hint...

Productivity tools

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With my regular job(s), the Hibernate Search book and a life going on at the same time, I had to find ways to boost my productivity.Here is a list of some to...