http://www.bultsblog.com/arne A viewers view Thu, 28 Jun 2007 21:32:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Remember Hans Reiser, of ReiserFS fame? Supposedly he killed his wife, though the body hasn't been found (yet). He's currently in jail awaiting trail, Wired has an interview with him which is quite interesting. Get it here. http://www.bultsblog.com/arne/14/2007/06/28/reiser-talks The european lauch of the Playstation 3 was less than a resounding success, or so I've head. The initial batch of consoles doesn't even seem to have sold out yet. That must really hurt Sony. I can't say I'm really surprised by this actually. Have you seen the cost of the ... http://www.bultsblog.com/arne/12/2007/03/26/ps3-sony-praystation The discussion about games and there influence upon violent shootings etc. has been going for years now. Recentently I came across an account at the penny-arcade. It's a unique perspective on this topic, by one of the parents of the instigator of alleged computer influenced violence. You can find the ... http://www.bultsblog.com/arne/11/2007/03/19/games-that-kill Due to security issues etc. I had to update the wordpress install and immediately decided to change the layout of my blog. I wasn't entirely happy with the previous one, it was a bit to narrow and cluttered. I think the new layout is much better, very clean. Hope you like ... http://www.bultsblog.com/arne/10/2007/03/18/updated-new-layout In my current project at work we're using the compass framework to meet our searching needs. All in all it's a great framework with lots of support to specify your search indexes and neat integration with Hibernate/Spring (which we're also using). Besides the wrapping of lucene in order to simplify ... http://www.bultsblog.com/arne/9/2007/03/08/compass-blues As promised, some screenshots from my current game. As you can see, I own most of the british lands, have some holdings on the mainland and iceland. Middle and south america are dominated. Who's yo daddy.. :) http://www.bultsblog.com/arne/8/2007/02/24/screenies I've not posted here for a while, I actually planned to create the image upload applet for wordpress in my free time, and keep you updated of the progress here. The only problem with that is: I haven't done any work on it since the last post. Don't worry though, ... http://www.bultsblog.com/arne/7/2007/02/23/what-happened To balance my previous post somewhat, besides creating an editor for images, I'm also creating an imagebar with thumbnails. The image bar can be used to drag imagefiles into and to select the image that you want to edit. I have to say that, using ImageIO, it's really easy to ... http://www.bultsblog.com/arne/6/2007/01/25/thumbs I've been trying to write a simple applet for rescaling and rotating images prior to uploading them to wordpress, but the way in which Java2D works with images really really REALLY! sucks. There is just no way to easilly get what you want. Right now I'm seriously contemplating just creating ... http://www.bultsblog.com/arne/5/2007/01/15/java2d-is-teh-suck So, I ran into a nasty little problem at work when trying to cluster the hibernate second level cache. We were using hibernate 3.2.1 GA and ehcache 1.2 and when replicating the caches between multicast nodes, random classcast exception occured when retrieving an object from secondlevel cache(slc). Turns out that ... http://www.bultsblog.com/arne/4/2007/01/07/hibernate-second-level-cache-and-clustering