FreeBSD

I Decided to give FreeBSD a real try, so I removed the windows harddrive from my laptop computer (I now use that as backup drive) an put in a brand new harddisk (it was a gift from friends) and installed FreeBSD 6.0 First week it was compiling a lot of programs (usefull a broadband internet connection in the office) not that it was compiling 24/24h but here's a summary of what I compiled Bash,Emacs,Eclipse,mc,Apache22,php5+extensions,Mysql,KDE 3.5.2, windowmaker, etc... the one that took most was KDE 3.5.2 off course.

But I can say that it's running very smoothly ;)

Now that FreeBSD as even Java due to an agreement with Sun I has gained a lot of points for me since I do a lot of java programming. Even that I could have used gcj for java but that one has still some missing graphical support.

Apache iBatis

I found Apache Ibatis today wich seems very usefull. see
ibatis.apache.org for details in short it's a framework wich maps SQL
results to Java classes. Configuration and query defenitions are done in
XML files thus enabling you to change queries without recompiling your
java appilication as you would have to do if you're using plain old
style JDBC

check it out

First steps with Apache Struts

Here I am for another update of my blog ;)

This weekend i played around with Apache struts wich seems very powerfull. I also read something interesting about Apache iBatis aframewrok for mapping SQLColumns to JavaObjects.

Since I'm studying at the university after my workhours (wich is quiet hard 8:30-18:00 working then 18:30-21:30 university) where I have a Java course all this helps me to have a larger view about java. Also at work I've created my forst Java servlets for data inquery of ourcustomer information.

My age of reinventing the wheel (as i did a lot of times in the past) is gone it's time to use the tools provides by the OS-community.

One big thanks to this fantastic community.