Some things to remember

Years ago I wrote a page about Baggerseen um Karlsruhe and put it online . The page gets quite some hits (around 30 a day). When you now go...

Mike Hostetler writes in this weblog entry that Java does not need to be slow when you use the -server jvm switch. I once wrote an arti...

From the source code of one of our projects (anonymized): // TODO: IF YOU CAN SEE THIS IT MEANS THAT <name> DID SOMETHING STUPID AGAI...

In this blog entry , Hani Suleiman expresses about maven , what I was always thinking. I don't grok guys like Konstantin P., who cons...

My little nine month old son Orlando today did his first steps on his own. He pulled him self up at a chair and did some little steps holdi...

I recently bought a new mobile, a Samsung SGH-E 100, as my old one more or less broke down. I am really happy with its speech quality. ...

According to this press release (PDF) , is JBoss the first open source J2EE application server that passed the Sun certification. Congrat...

Today, we got a very interesting behaviour with building a larger application at work. We have an ant task at one place like this: <ja...

I recently read Microserfs by Douglas Coupland . One of the big players in the book are Lego stones. In the story they postulate, that ...

In this this press release, Sun renames what should have been Java 1.5 into Java 5.0 to emphasize that this is the most advanced release of...

We have been for a week in Bilbao, Espania. Very nice city. One of the hightlights is definitvely the Guggenheim Museum. We took a fligh...

In this press release , the Eclipse Foundation announces the availability of Eclipse 3.0. From the release plan this was not anticipated ...

Today I did the 7km running at the 11. Stuttgarter Zeitung-Lauf . The Stuttgart-Lauf is a mass competition: in total around 18.000 people w...

Mario Jeckle is dead -- this is very sad news. Unfortunately I only met him once (at the iX Conference last year). Mario was really a nic...

Heise online reports that JOnAS did their first J2EE 1.4 release, beating JBoss in that area. heise online - Open-Source-Server für Java 2...

Heise writes that Sun wants to put java into open source: heise online - Sun will Java-Quellen freigeben

There are various articles like Forums - EJB 3.0 steered by politics? that express that EJB 3.0 must be the result of a conspiracy or of po...

Just went out on our balcony to see if my wlan has access there. It hasn't. But I found an access point of one of the neighbours. No WEP...

My Ixus is broken and only shows a 'E18' error. There is a website that shows in many picutures how to fix it . After diassembling...

Marcus updated the freshmeat.net: Project details for XDoclet . I am curious how many people will have a look at it or if downloads and we...