Some things to remember

Apple presented the new Safari version at WWDC yesterday. It is still a beta, but at least on the Mac it makes a great impression. It is bla...

Today I got an email with patch for x2svg from a user. I am really pleased that finally someone is providing feedback - and then even in su...

I am happy to anounce the first stable version of x2svg , a tool to render tree like structures in scalable vector graphics (SVG). Currently...

Marlene is now two month old. I have been at home for a month as paternitiy leave, as this is now quite nicely supported with the new Erzieh...

Yesterday I spent the morning at the kindergarden of Orlando. Parents have the possibility to stay there to lurk around and see what the kid...

A few days I wrote that I will release my dtd2svg tool as open source. Meanwhile I refactored the code, fixed some bugs and also wrote a pro...

In a recent post I wrote that Safari on the Mac does not know about svg natively. Inspired by a blog entry by Jeff Schiller, I just downlo...

Today we made an excurs to an abandonned iron mine in Aalen-Wasseralfingen (around 80km from Stuttgart). The mine itself has been shut down...

For quite some time now, we're getting each week a box delivered that contains organically grown fruit and vegetables. Our supplier is a...

Holger and Juliane have a cool repository of SVG related resources, nice drawings in svg and (gui) components done in XML, XSLT and SVG. Amo...

In a past article I wrote about drawing DTDs in SVG in order to convert them to PDF later. Recently I found some time to work on this matte...

Marlene is now one month old. She and her mom are all right. Nights are as expected 'shorter' than before. Currently Marlene wakes ...

Yesterday Red Hat Entreprise Linux 5 was released. And for this release, Red Hat also produced some nice new videos, that you can now find ...

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...