Jim Gray is lost at sea

Every computer science (Informatics) Student, who came across transactions should be heard of Jim Gray. Also know for his book “Transaction Processing. Concepts and Techniques” that his wrote with Andreas Reuter. If i’m not mistaken he was curating science work of Sergey Brin (Google Founder) and Werner Vogels (CTO, VC at Amazon) Now its been reported that Jim Gray is missing at sea :( Update: Having been missing for five years as of May 16, 2012, Gray is legally assumed to have died at sea....

January 30, 2007 · 1 min · Alexander Holbreich

Aptana IDE

In last times i get more and more in contact with JavaScript. OK earlier i had just to adopt some of part of scripts for my needs, but with emerging of Ajax and Web 2.0 also i have more often do deal with JavaScript. So i need one appropriate Editor or better an IDE special for JavaScript. Someone told me, he is been using Aptana. I tried it and Aptana seem to be that IDE for JavaScript i was looking for....

January 27, 2007 · 2 min · Alexander Holbreich

First Look at Java Persistence API (JPA)

The Java Persistence API (JPA) provides a POJO persistence model for object-relational mapping. The Java Persistence API was developed by the EJB 3.0 software expert group as part of JSR 220, but its use is not limited to EJB software components. It can also be used directly by web applications and Java SE application clients. So JPA is about persistence of the java objects or entities. An Entity is a lightweight domain specific java object that may be stored to persistent storage (mostly Relational DB)....

January 13, 2007 · 4 min · Alexander Holbreich

Hello World

This Blog is powered by WordPress1. I am uncertain about how long this blog will maintain my interest, but at the moment i feel pleasured to see how it works. My post about new blog was migrated from my first blog. I migrated old stuff just for fun to this blog and will continue my writing here. Now in January of 2007 this story starts. WordPress is not used on this side anymore....

January 6, 2007 · 1 min · Alexander Holbreich