db4o: Object-Identity and High-Level-Caching
In the last two posts (#1, #2) we never ever used anything like an id for any object. So how the hell does db4o identify objects? How does it ensure…
Read moreC vs Java, Doctor Who and Slow Club
Normally C- vs. Java-performance comparisons are wonderful and entertaining flame-wars. However this blog-post is very reasonable and each argument justified. I’ve stumbled by accident on a hand-cam-quality teaser of Doctor…
Read moredb4o: Activation- & Update-Depth
Activation is a very basic concept in db4o. In this post I’ll illustrate what it is, why it’s there and how you handle it. (All posts of this series: the…
Read moredb4o, The Basics
With this post I start a little series about db4o, an object database. Why? Because I think object databases are a quite unknown technology. Normally when developers talk about databases…
Read moreFunland
Lola and Dudley, a prude and strange couple, is on the way to Blackpool to spend some days there. Unfortunately they’ve booked a room in a dirty, awful small hotel.…
Read moreStacks for Windows 7
7Stacks is a little tool which lets you create the well known ‘Stacks’ from Max OS X in Windows 7 (and Vista, XP). Of course it’s not as elegant as…
Read moreYouTrack Beta
Jetbrains has released the first beta of their new bug-tracker, YouTrack (previously code-named Charisma). I’ve used the EAP before and I liked it. YouTrack doesn’t focus on having thousands of…
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