Fix for slower startup and shutdown times since Snow Leopard 10.6.1
Ever since I upgraded to Snow Leopard 10.6.1, my MacBook Pro startup and shutdown was much slower than before. I searched for a quite a while on forums to find the solution, but nobody seemed to know a solution. I finally figured out what it was. It seems that somehow the ownership of my startup volume's root directory (/) wasn't assigned to the root account anymore, but to my account instead. This made the kernel prelinking fail since it requires that root is the owner. This is how you solve this after launching the Terminal app: sudo chown root:admin / sudo kextcache -system-prelinked-kernel sudo kextcache -system-caches

Terracotta 3.1: Introduction to Examinator
Terracotta 3.1GA was released a few days ago and sports some interesting new features that are specifically geared towards clustering Hibernate second level caches. I decided to create a series of video tutorials and presentations about Terracotta's new clustered caching capabilities and will demonstrate most of this from our Examinator reference application. The first video highlights how to install, setup and use Examinator as a basis for the next videos. Enjoy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y4_sTytFDA

My first YouTube video : Robert Plant cover song
I picked music back up after a loooong hiatus of 7 years. I decided to evolve together with the world and to broadcast myself . Did the first one last night. The song is "All The Kings Horses" from Robert Plant and the Strange Sensation. When I heard it playing last afternoon from my iTunes collection, I couldn't help picking up my guitar to figure out the chords and such. This recording is the result of a couple of hours searching and rehearsing. I'm considering adding it to a concert repertoire I'm preparing, as one of the few cover songs. Anyways, my YouTube channel is located