Updating the Galaxy Mini to Android 2.3.3 under Linux

The Samsung Galaxy Mini S5570 comes with Android 2.2 and can easily be updated to Android 2.3 if you are running Windows on your computer and if you get Samsung's fragile Kies application to run. If you have been following this blog you know that any Windows installations reside safely banned inside Virtualboxes so my … Continue reading Updating the Galaxy Mini to Android 2.3.3 under Linux →

Non-blocking JDBC with the Asynchonous Mysql connector

Event driven application architecture If you've been following Hackernews or my favorite, the Highscalability blog, you can't have missed the trend towards event driven server applications which are inherently different from the request-per-thread based design of traditional web applications. Event driven applications evolve around asynchronous, non-blocking APIs and use few threads, typically around the number … Continue reading Non-blocking JDBC with the Asynchonous Mysql connector →