Category: Kev’s Blog

I just recently completed the search functionality for BBWeblog v2, and have almost completed all the migration from JDBC based DAO to using Hibernate 3.0.

There is still a lot of code cleanup to do (the JDBC migration to Hibernate 3.0 reduced the code in the DAO by about two thirds!), but the current code is currently running on my site for my weblog and online tech notes (you’re looking at it right now!), and so it seems stable enough to run in production. I’ll continue the cleanup and then release the final v2 version when its cleaned up.

You can download the source and or WAR from the project site on SourceForge.

In a bizarre recent court case against a Kai-Fu Lee, a prior Microsoft executive who left Microsoft to join Google, Balmer is quoted to have vowed to ‘kill’ Google CEO Eric Schmidt.

In a transcript of a conversation between Balmer and Lucovsky, another previous Microsoft employee who recently left Microsoft to join Google, Balmer is quoted as saying:

“I’m going to f***ing bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I’m going to f***ing kill Google.”

If you had any prior doubts about the business ethics of Microsoft them this surely will cast aside all doubts. Don’t mess with Mr Balmer; if he doesn’t like you he will kill you.

Recent press articles were discussing whether Google was becoming the new Microsoft. According to Balmers reaction, they are all to well aware that they in danger of being dethroned as the big dogs of IT.

Yesterday Apple announced a 30 day money back guarantee, basically a 30 day free trial of their entry level Mac Mini, but pulled the offer within hours of announcing it.

There has not been an official statement from Apple, but the speculation is that the offer was too successful and they had too many Mini’s going out the door. The drawback of the offer would have been that any that were returned during the 30 days would have to have been refurbished and could not have been sold as new.