Zef Hemel in Zef.me

Nov 9, 2004

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Test Of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL)

Tomorrow’s the day. Tomorrow is the day that I’m doing my TOEFL(Test Of English as a Foreign Language) exam. It’s a certificate I need to get into “Trinity College”:http://www.zefhemel.com/archives/2004/08/20/trinity-college. The computer-based…

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Zef Hemel in Zef.me

Nov 15, 2004

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Inversion of Control Containers

A year ago or so, I had a problem. In my Java forum software (KeyTopic) I wanted to offer the option to let user data come from other sources than KT’s own user database. I didn’t think a lot about it at that time and eventually just decided to only the offer the own user…

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Zef Hemel in Zef.me

Nov 7, 2004

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Is PIM Google’s Next Thing?

Google’s an interesting company. Years and years ago Google’s two founders thought, let’s see… there’s no really good search engine to do searches on the internet right now. Let’s fix that. In 1998 Google entered the search scene and quickly overtook it. Even so much, that many…

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Zef Hemel in Zef.me

Nov 26, 2004

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UML Virtual Machine

For a class I’m taking I’ve been reading a couple of papers on runtime generation of classes. You need this if you don’t know upfront how many classes, or even which classes you’ll need. There are a couple of solutions for this problem. Most interesting is the “UML Virtual…

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Zef Hemel in Zef.me

Nov 10, 2004

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TOEFL and Search News

I just came back from Arnhem where I did the “TOEFL”:http://www.zefhemel.com/archives/2004/11/09/test-of-english-as-a-foreign-language exam. It went pretty well, and It’s almost for sure that I’ll score the necessary 213 points. I already have 207 points and my essay still has to be…

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Zef Hemel in Zef.me

Nov 23, 2004

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Again: Free Software vs Open Source

I’m really tired (had a long day), so I’ll only reiterate the difference between free software and open source today. Mainly because I’ve heard some people mixing them up here and there, not realizing there’s a fundamental difference between them. I described this…

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Zef Hemel in Zef.me

Nov 18, 2004

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Towards a New Model of Abstraction in Software Engineering

Abstraction is of the most important concepts in engineering. Without abstraction, large projects become unable to handle. Imagine writing a word processor in 1’s and 0’s. You can’t do that. Therefore you use the abstraction of a…

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Zef Hemel in Zef.me

Nov 13, 2004

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TorrentNet

I’ve been very impressed with “BitTorrent”:http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/ lately. I used it a couple of times before, but never got good speeds. Lately I’ve been using “Shareaza”:http://www.shareaza.com which is a nice P2P client also supporting BitTorrent. What’s nice about BT(BitTorrent) is that it…

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Zef Hemel in Zef.me

Nov 24, 2004

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Language Oriented Programming

Sergey Dmitriev, of JetBrains, the company that develops the Java IDE “IntelliJ IDEA”:http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/, wrote an article on Language Oriented Programming. According to Sergey, the current programming paradigms are seriously flawed and we need a new one.

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Zef Hemel in Zef.me

Nov 8, 2004

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Novell Linux Desktop

Novell has announced their Novell Linux Desktop. A continuation of SuSE’s Linux distribution, merged with Ximian’s Desktop 2 and some of Novell’s custom made software. Novell became big in the network scene with their Netware product, that is still used a lot to power Windows networks. More…

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