I’m very happy to let you know that I pushed today a new update for jboss-as package to Fedora. New stuff The 7.1.1-4 version includes a lot of new modules as well as some design changes, let’s go briefly over them. Stability The most important change from a RPM/build stability POV is the move from building minimalistic to default profile. This let me know to drop about 60 (sic!) patches from the jboss-as.spec. ...

I have at home a pretty nice server: HP ML350 G5. My model has one Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processor X5355 (2.66 GHz), 8 GB of RAM and 4x 250 GB SATA II, 2.5’’, 5.4k disk drives. I have this HW for over three years now, but never really tried to do anything besides installing an operating system and grinding some boxes. Recently I decided to run some quick tests to see the actual performance of the disks. ...

Yesterday we had JBoss AS Test Day. Since the early morning hours we received help with testing the RPM packaged JBoss AS. And what’s the general impression? It works! Almost all test cases we prepared were successfully finished by our community members. We found one issue with not preserving the permission on files when adding new users to JBoss AS management interface. I’ve created a fix for that and sent a pull request. Expect to have it fixed in jboss-as-7.1.0-4 package. ...

We’re going today to test the (very) fresh JBoss Application Server which was packaged into Fedora. I hope you have some time to join us! Where I can read more about the test day? Most recent information you can find on the JBoss AS Fedora Test Day wiki page. How should I prepare? Make sure you have a Fedora 17 environment somewhere (VM preferred) with latest updates installed. This is very important. ...

Below you can find my latest song I made with Makul over the last year. We planned to do a song together since a few years, but it always failed because of lack of time. Finally in April this year we met at Makul’s house, had a couple of beers and started the work. This is the output of our work. Melody line and part of beat is Makul’s work whereas I arrnged and finished the whole thing. A few days ago the song was mastered. ...