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I was recently running FindBugs over some Java5 based code and found some places where FindBugs was complaining that two Objects compared w...

Recently we at JBoss ® received licenses for JIRAClient . It is a cool desktop app (written in Java) that serves as a frontent to Atlassians...

PgAdmin for postgres has a nice feature called "Server status". It is great if you sit in front of a GUI. But if you want to do so...

One of the nice features of Java 5 is autoboxing. I guess everyone remembers the hassle of calling Integer.intValue() to convert from Integ...

Project x2svg just released a new version, 1.2-beta1 Changes are * Documentation updates * Changed handling of the property file. See prop...

Over two month have now passed since my last post. Both Kids are doing fine. Marlene is much more moving around (but still not crawling). Ar...

This blog entry contains a review of the XO (the One Laptop Per Child, OLPC) machine. Interesting read. I wish I could get my hands onto on...

As you know I am a regular qyper since end of last year. Recently I got asked by another qyper from outside Germany what are the must sees ...

Hi, project x2svg just released a new version that now contains a simple graphical user interface. You can download it from Sourceforge .

Today version 1.1 of x2svg has been released. Notable changes are: * x2svg can now be run as ant tasks * more output file types (eps, jpg, ...

Sun submitted results of the SpecJAppserver benchmark running on Glassfish and Postgres. Josh Berkus discusses the results at his blog: http...

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...