Some things to remember

In Eclipse when you press Command-Shift-R (Open Resource), you end up seeing the same resource a few times -- when it e.g. gets copied into ...

Much of an application on a Mac is configured by a file called Info.plist . You can find the file when you right click on an application and...

Since Mac OS X 10.3 there is a new "Binding" mechanism. The idea behind this is to e.g. have an observer pattern for the enablemen...

Sometimes you want to save some user preferences for your app. Luckily there is good support for this in Mac OS X. Perferences are key-value...

Sometimes one wants to run a job a regular or scheduled times. One option would be to start a loop that runs until some abort condition is r...

I did some coding on Mac OS X lately. Basically the first time some real stuff besides just firing Xcode and InterfaceBuilder and closing th...

I recently put my Mac mini into a server room and am running it headless now. As this one also has the iTunes library and the connection to ...

Marlene is growing well. She is eight months old now and since three weeks, she is able to sit up on her own. She is not yet able to crawl o...

I was hunting an issue where inserting an empty string (not null in Java, but with String.lenght()==0) resulted in a constraint violation ex...

About one and a half years ago I bought myself a Canon Digital Ixus i Zoom. After two weks, the camera was broken, as the lens protection li...

Red Hat / JBoss built the JBoss ON 1.x product on the base of code from Hyperic. Now the two companies are going to collaborate on that. Wh...

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 .