He Bauke, De content van die geweldige oude site van je is toch niet verloren gegaan he? Als in: gewist? Dat zou eeuwig zonde zijn.... Anyway, je kent me verder niet, maar ik ga je missen! Veel succes in Curacao!
hey BalusC. It would be nice if you post some examples on your blog for a springframework which includes presisting data in database, modelandview, etc...
I have been reading your post on java forums. You are the only one experience over there. Too bad you are not a spring developer. I guess with so many model, service and dao classes in spring its very hard to get a reply on the forum even in spring forums also.
Gook luck with your new job. Your CPU Types pages were unparalleled. They really came in handy a few months ago when I needed to figure out how to decode cpuinfos.
Is this part of the content sold to Tweakers.net? I couldn't find anything about it on their site. Do you know of another good reference for this information?
Good luck with your new job. I would like to know if you could distribute a copy of your "balusc.xs4all.nl" website even if it was sold (a simple text file will be welcome) ? I realize a hardware recognition software and your website was for me an information source that I can find nowhere else (except sandpile.org). I had never think to record it so this is why I ask you if you can share it. If you can't, it's not serious and I thank you for everything you have done. If yes, thank you both. A really good luck with your new life. And sorry for my bad English
Hi Bauke, Your articles are really great and helpfull, thanks a lot!
You are inspiration for all those people who struggle with JSF in their everyday life ;-)
Now, the burning question I have is following: does is pay off to have Google ads on the Website? Compared to potential revenue you might get from publishing a book on the subject or article in professional magazines how does Google ads fare?
I am contemplating about putting online some technical pieces I learnt hard way as J2EE consultant over the years, but being apparently much greeder person then you are, I am trying to figure out first if the whole writing effort worth more then just ooh and aahh from the readers.
I guess your blog is the great way to market yourself to potential clients/employers, but if this is not the case, would you still spend that much time and effort to do such a great job?
I understand the sensitive nature of this question, so it's perfectly fine if it goes answered.
The monthly payoff is less than my hourly fare. I've had much better payoffs with my previous site at balusc.xs4all.nl which got up to ten times more pageviews. But the CTR is relatively good, it is better than with my previous site.
This blog is not made available to sell myself, but just to share new and helpful knowledge which isn't available on the World Wide Web yet. It is a nice entry at my CV though.
Dear BalusC, thank you for this great site. We would like to be told some things about encryption, database backup strategies, clustering, scalability, servlets, jsp, struts, wicket and tomcat if you have time. Kind regards, Niklas R
I'd like to talk with you or your company (preferably you) about some outsourced JSF development for my company, including both digital imaging and medical applications.
I'm writing you because I've found your JSF hints and notes extremely valuable in my own work.
as James asked in January, and Neils mentioned in February, the Tweakers site has done nothing with your excellent compilation of CPU and Chipset information from the old BalusC.nl site... I know this is no longer your interest or focus, but your information was better prepared and displayed than the Intel spec finder, wikipedia, sandpile, or any other source currently online.
I wish there was a copy floating around, or they would put it up for a couple of days so we could access the information... Do you know if they have any intentions of using the data and your hard work? I had emailed before your move, and you were nice to respond then, but it seems like Tweakers has forgotten about the useful info they wanted so badly...
After checking your reply in Sun Forums and the way of your responce ("Didn't you learn things in more than 2 years? Unbelieveable."), initially I thought you feel great with your knowledge.
But after when I checked your posts in Sun Forum and your Blog page, I understood that, you are trying to educate the forum members in proper way. I felt I misunderstood you, specially after reading the message about roseindia.net.
I really thankfull to you because today I decided to learn any thing fully with out stopping it with my requirements.
As, I should not disturb the forum pages with personal information, I posted my openion here.
Just wanted to let you know that your blog truly is a treasure for every JSF / JEE developer and has helped me a great deal many a times. Keep up the great work! Many many thanks!
I appreciate the information. Java is one of the consistent player from the development industry which has been providing the wider scope for developers to come out with different solutions.
Hey BalusC, I absolutely love your articles. Question: Have you had a chance to work much with java mobile development. If so, do you have any recommended online tutorials or books that would be a good starter for a newbee? Thanks.
Hi, ik weet niet of je dit nog leest. Maar ik vind leuk om te vernemen dat je doof bent. Dat ben ik namelijk ook ;-) Enne, ik gebruik jouw java blog als studiemateriaal. Goed geschreven hoor. Maar ik sta pas aan het begin. Wellicht tot schrijf! Wim
Hi! I'm new to JSF and Richfaces and have been learning a lot about them in the course of upgrading a web app from JSF1.2/RF3 to JSF2/RF4. (It also uses Spring Webflow which really helps complicate things nicely.)
Anyway, I wanted to say thank you so much for all your writing here and your answers on Stack Overflow. Time and again you've helped me figure out how to get things done!
I don't know how many times you have helped me, and you don't even know about it. You have taught many Java developers a lot. I respect you man. You hold a high regard in my eyes. Just wanted to say thank you for all your efforts and you are truly a legend - despite your physical constraint (Just read about you in wikipedia). Maybe someday I will have the luck to work with you. :)
You have mentioned in one of your answer in stackoverflow forum, that Question : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10786042/java-url-encoding
'You only need to keep in mind to encode only the individual query string parameter name and/or value, not the entire URL, for sure not the query string parameter separator character & nor the parameter name-value separator character =.'
Can you please help on how can I able to identify the specific parameters in the URL need to encoded.
I really enjoy the way you answer questions posted on Stack Overflow. Greetings from far away of the Caribbean sea I love.
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What is this blog about?
This blog was originated at a site called "The BalusC Server" which existed since May 1999. That site ran on a privately hosted webserver at home and was available at some IP address until June 2001 and then on http://balusc.xs4all.nl until August 2007. That site was primarily targeted at hardware geeks (and was served by an IBM Netfinity 8500R with Octa PII Xeon and 12 SCSI disks in RAID ;) ). That site was shut down at 31 August 2007 because of among others the emigration plans of BalusC and his family from The Netherlands to Curaçao.
The two most valuable content groups of that website were the "Hardware" and the "Development" groups. The first one covered very detailed technical specifications of all CPUs and chipsets which were ever released in mankind to date. But it costed too much time to be maintained and the area of interest has been moved, so BalusC decided to stop definitely with that. It was sold to Tweakers.net BV. The second one is moved to this blog. You can find them in the Articles bar at the right side. It's all about Java and nothing else.
What is the main language?
This blog will be a mixup of English and Dutch articles. The choice of the language will be based on the availability of comparable content somewhere else on the Internet. If there is lot of them then the article will be written in Dutch. Generally those are the "basic" Java articles (tutorials and knowledgements) which are mainly already available at oracle.com. The more "advanced" Java articles (best practices and useful snippets) which aren't available widely on the Internet will be written entirely in English.
What does 'BalusC' mean?
It's a concatenation of the first two characters of each name part of his full name Bauke Luitsen Scholtz. It was invented at 1995 when he as being a teen created a small ANSI DOS Batch program to select DOS games out of his collection and directly run it and wanted an as unique as possible author name: "Gamemenu made by BALUSC". It had a blue Norton Commander like UI with keyboard navigation and the games were definied as name=executionpath pairs in an ini file. It was for personal purposes only. Later when he for the first encountered Internet and joined the IRC chatrooms at 1996, this acronym was used as nickname to identify himself. After quickly becoming more familiar with the netiquette and having learnt that CAPS == SHOUTING, he decided to lowercase the middle characters so that the nickname 'BalusC' was created. The last character is still uppercased, because 'everyone did it also', referring to the so-called good old l33t speak. Up to now this nickname is still unique and practically all Google hits refers uniquely to himself and/or his (former) website (only those Twitter and Youtube accounts are not his, it was likely coincidence or hijacked).
3000?
Yes, the welcome page which you're facing is posted at 1 january 3000.
It's a little trick so that page will be kept on the top of the blog forever =)
It's actually posted at 31 august 2007.
"Welcome"
43 Comments -
Veel succes in Curacao !
Heb veel gehad aan de Win XP RAID1 tweak
August 31, 2007 at 10:04 PM
Ik wist van niets! Compleet out-of-the-blue voor mij. Had ik dit geweten dan had ik je nog effe geknuffeld afgelopen weekend!
:'(
We zullen je missen!
September 3, 2007 at 2:05 AM
Hey Balusc,
Succes op Curacao!
Je site zal gemist worden!
En jullie natuurlijk ook.
Barend // endless
September 3, 2007 at 2:59 PM
Hola,
Where is your forum archive?
September 19, 2007 at 4:04 PM
He Bauke,
De content van die geweldige oude site van je is toch niet verloren gegaan he?
Als in: gewist? Dat zou eeuwig zonde zijn....
Anyway, je kent me verder niet, maar ik ga je missen!
Veel succes in Curacao!
October 5, 2007 at 11:22 PM
hey BalusC. It would be nice if you post some examples on your blog for a springframework which includes presisting data in database, modelandview, etc...
Just a thought
January 9, 2008 at 7:49 AM
Chris: unfortunately I am a JSF developer, not a Spring developer.
January 9, 2008 at 10:52 AM
I have been reading your post on java forums. You are the only one experience over there. Too bad you are not a spring developer. I guess with so many model, service and dao classes in spring its very hard to get a reply on the forum even in spring forums also.
January 10, 2008 at 6:20 AM
Gook luck with your new job. Your CPU Types pages were unparalleled. They really came in handy a few months ago when I needed to figure out how to decode cpuinfos.
Is this part of the content sold to Tweakers.net? I couldn't find anything about it on their site. Do you know of another good reference for this information?
January 11, 2008 at 8:55 PM
If it comes online, I will post a link as well.
Another reference is Wikipedia. Not as specific as mine was, but it's better than nothing :)
You can also check Intel Processorfinder and AMD Compare.
January 11, 2008 at 8:59 PM
hi BaukeScholtz, Within 2 years, you have crossed more than 10,000 posts at Sun Developer Forums. Congrats buddy.
--SKP71.
January 14, 2008 at 4:35 PM
Good luck with your new job.
I would like to know if you could distribute a copy of your "balusc.xs4all.nl" website even if it was sold (a simple text file will be welcome) ?
I realize a hardware recognition software and your website was for me an information source that I can find nowhere else (except sandpile.org).
I had never think to record it so this is why I ask you if you can share it.
If you can't, it's not serious and I thank you for everything you have done. If yes, thank you both.
A really good luck with your new life.
And sorry for my bad English
February 3, 2008 at 1:02 AM
Hi BalusC,
I saw your article on tailoring Eclipse for J2EE application development, it was really good and lucid!!!It was very helpful.
It would be good if you publish some articles on how to use JAAS with JSF with illustrations.
Thanksyou
February 26, 2008 at 4:32 AM
Hi Bauke,
Your articles are really great and helpfull, thanks a lot!
You are inspiration for all those people who struggle with JSF in their everyday life ;-)
Now, the burning question I have is following: does is pay off to have Google ads on the Website? Compared to potential revenue you might get from publishing a book on the subject or article in professional magazines how does Google ads fare?
I am contemplating about putting online some technical pieces I learnt hard way as J2EE consultant over the years, but being apparently much greeder person then you are, I am trying to figure out first if the whole writing effort worth more then just ooh and aahh from the readers.
I guess your blog is the great way to market yourself to potential clients/employers, but if this is not the case, would you still spend that much time and effort to do such a great job?
I understand the sensitive nature of this question, so it's perfectly fine if it goes answered.
Thanks!
VladS
e: vsaddr-in6 at yahoo....
February 28, 2008 at 2:27 AM
I meant UNanswered ;-)
February 28, 2008 at 2:29 AM
The monthly payoff is less than my hourly fare. I've had much better payoffs with my previous site at balusc.xs4all.nl which got up to ten times more pageviews. But the CTR is relatively good, it is better than with my previous site.
This blog is not made available to sell myself, but just to share new and helpful knowledge which isn't available on the World Wide Web yet. It is a nice entry at my CV though.
February 28, 2008 at 7:10 AM
Dear BalusC, thank you for this great site. We would like to be told some things about encryption, database backup strategies, clustering, scalability, servlets, jsp, struts, wicket and tomcat if you have time.
Kind regards,
Niklas R
April 5, 2008 at 9:06 AM
This is really great blog...
Thanks to Balusc ...
April 11, 2008 at 8:10 AM
Bauke
I'd like to talk with you or your company (preferably you) about some outsourced JSF development for my company, including both digital imaging and medical applications.
I'm writing you because I've found your JSF hints and notes extremely valuable in my own work.
You can contact me thru LinkedIn ...
Best,
-Robert Patt-Corner
April 23, 2008 at 11:19 PM
as James asked in January, and Neils mentioned in February, the Tweakers site has done nothing with your excellent compilation of CPU and Chipset information from the old BalusC.nl site... I know this is no longer your interest or focus, but your information was better prepared and displayed than the Intel spec finder, wikipedia, sandpile, or any other source currently online.
I wish there was a copy floating around, or they would put it up for a couple of days so we could access the information... Do you know if they have any intentions of using the data and your hard work? I had emailed before your move, and you were nice to respond then, but it seems like Tweakers has forgotten about the useful info they wanted so badly...
July 16, 2008 at 5:24 PM
Very nice page. I havent found anything more useful regarding JSF. Thanks!
October 13, 2008 at 4:12 PM
Hi BalusC,
After checking your reply in Sun Forums and the way of your responce ("Didn't you learn things in more than 2 years? Unbelieveable."), initially I thought you feel great with your knowledge.
But after when I checked your posts in Sun Forum and your Blog page, I understood that, you are trying to educate the forum members in proper way. I felt I misunderstood you, specially after reading the message about roseindia.net.
I really thankfull to you because today I decided to learn any thing fully with out stopping it with my requirements.
As, I should not disturb the forum pages with personal information, I posted my openion here.
October 23, 2008 at 3:24 PM
Hi BalusC!
I was wondering what are you using to format the code in your posts?
Thanks!
March 29, 2009 at 11:48 PM
I use a (privately) modified java2html plugin for Eclipse.
March 30, 2009 at 3:50 AM
Thanks! I was really struggling with code formatting...
March 30, 2009 at 9:30 AM
Hey Bauke!
Just wanted to let you know that your blog truly is a treasure for every JSF / JEE developer and has helped me a great deal many a times. Keep up the great work! Many many thanks!
Best regards,
- Torben
November 6, 2009 at 12:12 PM
its best help for ever for JSF
February 22, 2010 at 2:39 PM
You're awesome! Thank you!
March 17, 2010 at 12:50 PM
thank you for you to make me learn more,thank you∩０∩
March 23, 2010 at 6:39 AM
I appreciate the information. Java is one of the consistent player from the development industry which has been providing the wider scope for developers to come out with different solutions.
March 30, 2010 at 12:09 PM
Thank you for your blog. I found it to be one of the best JSF websites that I have found. I would like to know if you still work on your blog.
April 5, 2010 at 5:10 PM
Hey BalusC, I absolutely love your articles. Question: Have you had a chance to work much with java mobile development. If so, do you have any recommended online tutorials or books that would be a good starter for a newbee? Thanks.
Brian
May 19, 2010 at 4:56 PM
@Tuomas: I plan to post some JSF2 articles later, but I'd like to wait until Eclipse Helios and Tomcat 7 are launched.
@Brian: sorry, I have not been involved in mobile development.
May 20, 2010 at 3:48 AM
Hey cool pic on stackoverflow :-)
June 15, 2010 at 8:07 PM
Was aan het zoeken naar, intel CPU lijst :)
November 22, 2011 at 7:41 PM
I can not express how much I appreciate your blog - Thank you!
December 22, 2011 at 4:49 PM
Hi, ik weet niet of je dit nog leest. Maar ik vind leuk om te vernemen dat je doof bent. Dat ben ik namelijk ook ;-) Enne, ik gebruik jouw java blog als studiemateriaal. Goed geschreven hoor. Maar ik sta pas aan het begin. Wellicht tot schrijf!
Wim
April 6, 2012 at 11:34 AM
So you don't plan to keep the blog running until the year 3000?
Because if you are, this won't be the first article at a certain point in time.
Ok, this useless comment was my way of saying thank you for your enthusiasm and help in teaching us JSF.
March 26, 2013 at 8:16 AM
Hi! I'm new to JSF and Richfaces and have been learning a lot about them in the course of upgrading a web app from JSF1.2/RF3 to JSF2/RF4. (It also uses Spring Webflow which really helps complicate things nicely.)
Anyway, I wanted to say thank you so much for all your writing here and your answers on Stack Overflow. Time and again you've helped me figure out how to get things done!
September 9, 2014 at 6:44 PM
I don't know how many times you have helped me, and you don't even know about it. You have taught many Java developers a lot. I respect you man. You hold a high regard in my eyes. Just wanted to say thank you for all your efforts and you are truly a legend - despite your physical constraint (Just read about you in wikipedia). Maybe someday I will have the luck to work with you. :)
September 17, 2014 at 6:00 PM
Awesome 3000 concept..... Loved it.... good creativity dude... :P
October 17, 2014 at 8:05 AM
Hi,
You have mentioned in one of your answer in stackoverflow forum, that
Question : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10786042/java-url-encoding
'You only need to keep in mind to encode only the individual query string parameter name and/or value, not the entire URL, for sure not the query string parameter separator character & nor the parameter name-value separator character =.'
Can you please help on how can I able to identify the specific parameters in the URL need to encoded.
January 30, 2015 at 12:41 AM
I really enjoy the way you answer questions posted on Stack Overflow.
Greetings from far away of the Caribbean sea I love.
August 20, 2017 at 1:07 AM