Tarn Aeluin

Out with the Old in with the…VirtualBox

Beren Erchamion
June 20, 2009

I’ve used VMWare on and off ever since it first came out. Both the server and workstations products revolutionized the data center and brought huge power to a developer. These days I’m back into more pure software development so a…

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News

Beren & Dior Advance in Shotokan

Beren Erchamion
June 19, 2009

My son Dior and I started Shotokan “hard-style” karate last fall. If you are not familiar with the martial arts, Shotokan is the traditional form of Karate developed on the island of Okinawa and popularized by Gichin Funakoshi. There are…

2 min read

Rambling

Instant Messaging: Boon or Curse?

Beren Erchamion
June 18, 2009

All of us that are in a global setting – or even a national setting here in the wide-open USA – are using some kind of near real time instant messaging stuff…like instant messaging or SMS.I’m going to generally call…

2 min read

10 Tools to Keep a Programmer Happy

Beren Erchamion
June 13, 2009

All programmers have their set of tools that keep them happy and moving ahead. I work with a lot of technologies: PHP, Java SE, Java ME, Drupal, Oracle, J2EE, .NET, and a few others. I get lots of questions from…

4 min read

Saab

A Saab Birthday Gift x 2

Beren Erchamion
June 12, 2009

It has been a little over one year since I picked up my Turbo X. A pretty decent set of timing that Saab have all but announced the purchase of their company by Swedish super-car designer and producer Koenigsegg (say…

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Creating A Thick Java Application – in 2009?

Beren Erchamion
May 23, 2009

Has the web become so pervasive that thick client applications are obsolete? Of course we all use a thick client application once in a while – Office, Photoshop, Nero, Eclipse, and CCleaner are good examples, but how many of us…

6 min read

Latest Posts

Out with the Old in with the…VirtualBox

Beren & Dior Advance in Shotokan

Instant Messaging: Boon or Curse?

10 Tools to Keep a Programmer Happy

A Saab Birthday Gift x 2

Creating A Thick Java Application – in 2009?