Some things to remember

The (German) slides from my yesterday talk at Java User Group Stuttgart are online at bsd.de/e3fu/ as PDF.

I was recently complaining that Eclipse is taking a nap after a right-click before displaying the context menu. When looking for an updated...

Yesterday a colleague of mine ran into a problem where code like this produced a ClassCastException: .. av.getEndTime().compareTo(someDate);...

Now it is official. Marc Fleury, founder of JBoss has retired from his position as SVP JBoss division at Red Hat. Many suspected this when h...

As most of the project I am working on are using IntelliJ IDEA, I thought to give it a try as well. This was not easy, as I am a long term E...

While in the past big blue was not too enthusiastic about EJB3, they now have an alpha version of EJB 3 support online. It only works with ...

After I have my first copy of the EJB3 book since the 23th and I got my box of author copies, even Amazon now lists it as available :) Ma...

I just got a copy of my EJB3 book in my mailbox. It is again a great feeling to actually have the printed copy in the hands. One can get so...

When pepole asked me why star imports are bad, I didn't really know what to answer. Usually I was talking about parsing time and so. And...

My EJB 3 book will probably be in stores starting on 26th of this month. Within the next month, the Java User Group Stuttgart will host tw...

Recently I was struggling with printing from Win*. Samba was set up nicely, but Win users were not able to print. I tried lots of different ...

Do you remember when you first found out that your dad does not know everything or that Santa Claus does not exist? I hat the same experienc...

It's nearly done .. last night I finished to work in the results of the spell checking. Now the book is in the typesetting phase after w...

As I wrote before, the final draft of my book is at dpunkt. They now also have the final cover design online. Unfortunately, Amazon is no y...

I had the luck to be in Berlin at JBossWorld for the last three days. This was a great event. I met many of my colleagues. The party at the ...

Parallels Desktop for Mac is a great piece of software. You can run every other operating system for i386 architecture (yes includig vista)...

I just sent the final draft of my book to the publisher. Next steps are professional spell checking, type setting and printing. So I expect ...

Good article about Java EE on 64 bit systems. http://www.onjava.com/lpt/a/6781

Java SE 5 has introduced Annotations, amongst other @SuppressWarnings. This posting on an Eclipse mailing list shows possible values for it...

I just submitted the draft of my upcoming next book to the publisher to start the review process. You might wonder what it is about. Well it...