Hawak kamay...

Loving the 50mm!


shutternox
- be true to the 50, and the 50 will be true to you...

Girl succeeds having people buy her a macbook pro!

Lucky!

I remember Sacha Chua also did something similar (Ad Space) on her laptop. Only this time the idea was taken further. :)

Now, should I post my bank details for "Buy Nox a Canon 5D with a 24-105L lens" campaign. I'll advertise the sponsors name on the 5D, my blog, my ibook, and if the fund is big enough to buy a macbook pro, I'll find a way to laser etch em' too.

Too bad Paypal PH doesn't offer local bank withdrawals yet, that would make things like this a tad easier for international donors.

On the other hand, funding for a Tamron 17-50mm would suffice.


dreamy nox
- Canon are you listening...

50mm Fun!

Really loving the nifty fifty! Way sharper than the kit lens. Now if only they make something as optically as good as this, with a focal range of 17-200 with IS priced not more than $200! Then more people (consumers) can concentrate more on the art and not the tool. Wishful thinking...

Anyway, more shots of my two little kittens:

My volunteer assistant little boss/cameraman/director.


Tag team. Yey! Rojan won and bagged a medal.



daddy nox
- i love my kids!

My daughter rocks! and my cam is back!

Yesterday was good timing as Canon called to inform us that the 350D was fixed and ready for pickup. It took them 1 month to replace the sensor and a few other things. Here is to hoping that problem won't go back anytime soon. :)

Anyway, Rojan presented the "Three Litte Kittens" this at her school this morning. Wifey and I were so proud. Also got a chance to use the nifty fifty (Canon 50mm lens) and take my shot at family candids/events photography. Its a bit weird using a fixed focal length lens for this type of shoot. Quite challenging! The 50mm prime was awesome but I think I need to add one more walk-around lens with enough reach for cases where you can't go beyond set boundaries, like a school stage for example. But for portraits and low lights (school gym) wide apertures really helps. Also 50mm on a cropped sensor like the 350D is a bit short on the wide end on a crowded gym.

Time to make excuses to get the Tamron 17-50 or the Sigma 17-70. Am torn between the two. If money is not an object, the Canon 17-40L would be nice or the Canon 17-55 2.8 IS, but those are way too much for this hobby. Unless if Canon would be nice to give me one for Christmas of course. Thats shooting for the moon, hehehe, as most reviewers on the net mention that they rarely even lend one for review.


daddy nox
-proud/happy dad!

Shiny! Open source Java Rocks!

Rejoice, rejoice, rejoice!!
For now you have a choice,
yer FREE!!!

Like a bird on a tree...
Are you happy of me?



devnox
- Sun, you rock!

Picoo Z Micro RC Helicopter

This is pretty wicked! Damn Shiny!

Cost about $20-$30. Would make an awesome gift for myself my two year old boy.

Will order from a friend coming home from HK this Christmas. Dexter order na! :)


kidnox
- the kid within...

Its out!

Oh yeah! As I have told a friend who bought a macbook 2 weeks ago. Wait for this since the macbook pro line was just updated, and its predictable that the macbook series will follow by year end.

As for me, bookah wookah is still ok for my development needs. Albeit slow when resin and postgres fired up together with eclipse.

Ok, ok, this is a need. Not a want.

Oh well...


macnox
- i want you... i need you...

The official PSP™(PlayStation?Portable) Website

The wifi feature and with full netfront powered browser makes titillate the geek in me. Yes it can be it can be done on the treo and with Smart's flat per minute GPRS rate, but this thing has a freakin nice screen resolution! And last but not the least can play awesome games on the go.

Tempting...

Kiyosaki, Kiyosaki... If I had not read that book, I would buy this thing in a jiffy. But it wouldn't hurt to receive one from dear Santa this Christmas. I wish...

On another news, the PSP3 is out. But am not much of a couch gamer. Mobility is where the future lies.


playnox
- PSP dreamin, mobile indie...

Java Persistent Objects (JPOX)

This thing is sexy. Period.

Time to blog the adventures in JDO land. One baby step at a time.

devnox
- the simpler the betterererererer...

OpenDNS | Providing A Safer And Faster DNS

Hmmmnn... Some noticeable speed bumps.

Try it out! Shiny!

Kalesa Transit

man without a cam

The Canon 350D is undergoing sensor replacement surgery due to this annoying horizontal banding problems right smack at the center. If post processed with photoshop's unsharp mask this problem is accentuated and can be visibly seen as white lines running across the entire frame. This only happens at apertures 3 and below and iso 400 and above, so you would need a lens like the nifty fifty (Canon 50mm 1.8) to check if your sensor also exhibits the same problem.

Fortunately, the unit has local warranty. And with the kind help of tekgik at pipho was able to escalate the problem to a very helpful Canon exec. Else it might take till december for the unit's sensor to be replaced instead of a promised mid november timeframe.




shutternox
- missing the sound of a clicking shutter...

How Much Is My Blog Worth

My blog is worth $4,516.32.
How much is your blog worth?

wooooot! $4K! Thats worth a 5D, a 24-70mm and trip to HK with the family. :D :D :D

Aspect, oh Aspect...

Not all is peachy at aspectj land.

If you are using hibernate, you are in for a nasty circular dependency surprise once you inject an object/service/dao to your domain object which has a hibernate session factory injected via spring. The session factory object tries to load your entity/domain, which will be intercepted with aspectj and try to configure using your spring configuration, which will again call on session factory....

The solution is including an unsaved-value="null" into your primary class (use xdoclet to make your life easy).

Am currently using load time weaving using the AJDT tool. And its a bit slow on bookah wookah. A much nicer/lightweight approach is to mock your objects for unit testing and use ajc on the final jar build.

Is it domain dependency injection worth the trouble? It depends, but it truly helps make your model more object oriented. Makes mapping meatspace problems easier. You could treat your domain object just like a real object.


devnox
- binding aspects to the jar output...

Allergic to annotations?

If you are like me, still allergic to annotations, but would like to inject stuff to your domain objects to keep them from becoming anemic, you cant rely on the spring docs (ATM) to give you a more simple explanation on using AspectJ for domain injection. The problem is magnified if your only use of aspects is for domain injection and nothing else (K.I.S.S. philosophy).

There is another way. You still need to download the usual AspectJ installer and the eclipse AJDT. Then create an aspectj project with a class like the code below.


package com.mobileindie.spring.utils;

import org.springframework.beans.factory.aspectj.AbstractBeanConfigurerAspect;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.wiring.ClassNameBeanWiringInfoResolver;

public aspect DomainObjectConfiguration extends AbstractBeanConfigurerAspect {

public DomainObjectConfiguration() {
setBeanWiringInfoResolver(new ClassNameBeanWiringInfoResolver());
}

// the creation of a new bean (any object in the domain model)
protected pointcut beanCreation(Object beanInstance) :
initialization(com.mobileindie.domains..new(..)) &&
this(beanInstance);

}


Take note of the initialization line, this is where you define which objects you would like to inject your dependencies whenever a new instance is called. This also assumes wire by prototype mode. But the beans are configured just like a normal bean in your spring application context xml.

devnox
- ano nga ba ang aspect kung meron kang aspect?

Apple - MacBook Pro

Core 2 Duo based MacBook Pro just out!

The time has come to drool again. Imagine the boost in productivity with that machine. A core 2 duo compiling my java apps! If the current crop macbook can cut my compile time in half, imagine the speed on this sweet bugger.

Back to G4 reality.

macnox
- dreaming ang drooling...

The Aspects Blog: Tips for using Eclipse effectively

Aha!

I had been using eclipse for quite a while and didn't know that there is such an option such as Fast Views, which really helps reclaim much needed screen state on my 1024x768 resolution challenged bookah wookah.

Just right click on the title bar of the view and select the Fast View. It minimizes your view to a single icon on the bottom (default). But you can place it either on the left or right portion depending on your preference.

dev nox
- hopping around...

Alapaap

iPhoto Diet 3.1 - VersionTracker

Woot! Just what I need!

Need to swap the larger drive soon tho. With barely 1 gig free disk space, things are slowin. Can't give up both my music and photo collection either. Wonder if those shops are oven on tuesday...

XStream

POJO to XML? Check. XML to POJO? Check.

Yummy clean XML generation... Whats not to love?

Spread the love...

devnox
-- still buried in the xslt regime.