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August 26, 2010

Landing is every man for himself

I hurt a knee the last time I was out jumping, on a downwind landing. And it was all because of a combination of stupidity and lack of knowledge.

The first because I did something I shouldn’t: I trusted a fellow skydiver’s direction instead of the wind sleeve. (…)
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July 14, 2010

Feedsquares: A refreshing view for Google Reader

I don’t know about you, but i have still to find the perfect RSS reader. I don’t dislike Google Reader, but i always feel that things can be better (yeah, it’s both a curse and a blessing) and, recently, i found a little thing – called Feedsquares – that (…)
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May 12, 2010

Google introduces GMail image drag and drop

At least if you are using Chrome :) If you drag any picture from your desktop to the message body it will get automagically included in the email. Pretty neat, uh? (…)
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May 7, 2010

Latex in Google Docs

Pretty cool stuff, now you can edit Latex from google docs. … Too bad i decided a long time ago to use HTML+CSS for my resume, otherwise i would definitely give this a try over offline Latex editors :) (…)
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April 20, 2010

Spring : inject proxy instead of proxied object

Today i found a neat trick.

Typically when you inject an AnnotationSessionFactoryBean into one of your classes you end up with a SessionFactory on the other side. This is because Spring is doing its magic inside, proxying stuff so you end up with an easy way to instantiate hibernate (…)
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