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Apple i Google: I això que no eren amics…

Els de Gizmodo ens han regalat una xafarderia un xic inusual… L’Eric Schmidt de Google i el Steve Jobs d’Apple prenent un café en un bar de Palo Alto. I això que teòricament estaven en “peu de guerra“. Serà que … Continue reading

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Firefox for N900 with Flash disabled. Ah, the irony…

From the Firefox for Nokia N900 1.0 release notes themselves, stumbled upon this little gem: Initially, Firefox for N900 does not support browser plug-ins. Due to performance problems using Adobe Flash within Firefox on many websites, especially those with multiple … Continue reading

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El disseny d’interfícies no és cosa de molts

Article boníssim sobre el disseny d’interfícies i l’impacte de qualsevol decisió de disseny sobre l’usabilitat. Ens parla dels compromisos inherents en qualsevol decisió de disseny. També del mal que pot fer el disseny d’aplicacions en un comité on tothom hi … Continue reading

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Components on the server (5): better Unit Testing

In this installment of the OSGi series, we add more complete Unit Testing support in the project. We also establish that some behaviour of the Servlet Bridge may not be what we want and then provide a way to customize … Continue reading

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Automàticament Monster Lego

Fent unes reescoltes he trobat aquest genial remake del clàssic ‘Monster’ dels galesos The Automatic. Genial!

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Components on the server (4): adding Tomcat support

In this post, we examine what is needed to deploy OSGi in a regular Servlet Container using the Equinox Servlet Bridge. We also use the Servlet Bridge to deploy our OSGi cache using Tomcat and wrap it up all together … Continue reading

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Idea: ens treiem de Google a veure que passa

La idea més absurda que he sentit últimament, de mans de News Corp i Microsoft. Arribar a un acord d’exclusivitat perque el cercador de MS Bing sigui l’únic que indexa les seves notícies. Sense comentaris.

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Components on the server (3): adding a HTTP frontend

Welcome to the third instalment of our OSGi ABC tutorial. Please make sure you check both the 1st installment and the 2nd. In this post, we will add another cache provider implementation to the mix as well as provide an … Continue reading

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Una mica de remember, no?

Simplement genial… Aquesta cançó sí que és un bon punt i final a la dècada dels 80 (l’album “Autobiografía” va sortir el 89)

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Components on the server (2): creating the first bundles

Hopefully you enjoyed the OSGi journey in its first installment. Though simple and easy to understand, the first example does nothing out of the ordinary. It is far more interesting to start exploiting some of the basic features OSGi gets … Continue reading

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