Beagle in the Castle

I have coded a Beagle web interface for MonoRail. It let you search keywords inside documents, IM conversations and other files in your hard disk. Beagle rocks :-). It uses Beagle.dll instead of doing system calls and the code is pretty simple. It is based on...

SharpTranslator 0.1

I was an user of the i2e (english to spanish word translator; apt-get install i2e) and I wanted to support the project by adding new words but the project seems to be died. So I have taked the i2e dictionary and developed a little Gtk# application which is a new...

ActiveRecord and NHibernate second level cache

Wow!!! NHibernate second level cache rocks!. Before enabling the NHibernate second level cache in my Castle web application, a controller accesing several models in the database delayed about 40 seconds in process and render a request. This becomes the application...

Increasing Eclipse performance on Ubuntu

Eclipse package in Ubuntu Dapper depends on the GNU Java bytecode interpreter (gij-4.1) and the performance is extremly bad, is very heavy. Nowdays there are official Ubuntu packages for Sun JDK (sun-java5-jdk) and the performance is obviously greather, the difference...