Spikes Of Nothingness - void tag

Finally cancelled my World Of Warcraft account

Sun, 11 Apr 2010 15:14:22 GMT

It was a more than 2 years long fun and nice ride, PvP and PvE, and I am still amazed about the energy and the "life" boiling under the world of Warcraft. WoW is an amazing universe but something is missing, and I can't describe the feeling. Playing WoW lately is not the same thing as it used to be; probably it's too easy? It is the time to move on and focus on the things I like more; family and friends, iPhone and Java development, open source, cooking and yoga, and probably helping my wife to build her own business :)

To all the WarCrafters out there: I salute you, and probably we'll meet again in the years to come!

/bow
Valahus, Denarian & McVoid
of Nazgrel

Listen to your customers, not your competitors.

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:58:41 GMT

This entry has nothing to do with Java. It is just a reminder for all of us to stay focused on things that matter - the title says it all.

Joel is an inspiration for many of us (he doesn't like Java, although he never had the chance to use JPublish), and while browsing (again) through his older articles, I found an advice that's so accurate:

"Listen to your customers, not your competitors."

Words of wisdom for days like these!

Pebble, Pebble, where Art Thou?

Tue, 08 May 2007 02:02:32 GMT

Found my Pebble :)

All mysteries solved and all my entries are all back again, no glitches and no mysterious invisible articles.

As instructed by Simon, simply removing the DATA_DIRECTORY/blogs/default/pebble.version file re-triggered the auto-upgrade utils and restored my entire article set.

Welcome back Pebble :)

Guess what? ... is time to upgrade and bite the bullet, let's see :)

PAST TENSE:

I still don't get it :(

I was spoiled with a very robust application in the past, Peeble 1.9 being solid as a rock ... Pebble 2 is also supposed to be great and better, but during the recent migration from my old and trusty Pebble 1.9, something mysterious happened.

All my articles from 2006 are not showing up (the files are there you can still see them in the search results), ~~the main links for the RSS and ATOM feeds are broken~~, God knows what else?!

Thanks to the support I received from Simon, the ATOM and the RSS feeds are restored now, yay :) He correctly pointed me to a Pebble on Jetty mail list post which shows you how to fix this type of error if encountered. The full link is here, thank you Simon!

All the files I can't see (throwing 404) are in place, the file permissions are sound .. I don't know what else I should check..

I'll continue to browse the Pebble mailing list ~~but so far I am out of luck :(~~ ... Debugging?? I guess :'(

Please let me know if you are aware of anything that may cause something similar.