Here it comes, first occurence: one of my VM's BSOD-ed on me yesterday. To be completely fair, I did have experienced an occurrence of something similar twice in last moths: after wake up from sleep, the screen was collection of the color pixels, completely unreadable. After reboot, everything was normal. I found out that the issue may be related to the "safesleep" mode. For now, I disabled the mode by

I did not even notice that the visit counter left the 16 bit domain sometimes during last few days. Now it shows about 67 000 visits. Honestly, I am pleasantly surprised how many people found this blog worthy their time :-). Thanks to you all ... Next boundary is of course 128K, 256K, 512K hits and finally a "Megahit". But that's far far away.

Akita published two part tutorial that leads you through building the famous 15 minute blog application in Rails 2.0. Read the parts one and two - or follow the screencast by the same author. Thanks a lot, Akita - very nicely done !

I have first time encountered the error: ORA-29907: found duplicate labels in primary invocations after testing the change request we have implemented recently. The error message was not very helpful - I was not exactly sure which labels and which invocations ;-) - and as Oracle guru who actually does understand fine details of Oracle Text was visiting sunny India, I was on my own. The change addressed an issue in repository search: users were asking for more flexible processing of full text search phrases: instead of e.

After some break, I got back to Rails land. The return is not as smooth as I hoped: since Rails 2.0, many things work differently and quite a few steps learned from "The Book" do not work any more. The issues are more often than not quite easy to fix, but there is quite a few of them. All the following is related to NetbeansRuby build 6327 from Jan 26th with JRuby 1.