useful tools: sqleonardo
Being heavily into messing around with SQL databases lately, I’ve spent quite some time in anger about the fact that the powerful open-source database MaxDB (formerly known as SAPDB and now distributed...
View ArticleDoin’ the HOP
Über den schockwellenreiter bin ich gestern auf helma aufmerksam geworden, einen JavaScript – basiertes Web-Anwendungs – Framework, auf dessen Basis wohl auch die Weblog-Plattform twoday.net aufbaut...
View ArticleLinux, developers and users…
Ralf has literally been asking for a flame war writing about “Why aren’t we all using Linux?”. Since I’m also a GNU/Linux enthusiast and administrator of Windows XP desktop machines, since I also used...
View ArticleJEE 5 – having a “first cup”
So here we go… JEE 5, the web application framework / environment / platform /whatever based upon the Java programming language, is slowly gaining speed, and indeed it is a technology worth spending...
View ArticleEclipse 3.2 vs. NetBeans 5.5
Very well I remember the days I used to do my very first experiments using the Java programming language, utilizing a plain installation vim text editor (which still rocks, but preferrably for purposes...
View ArticleSame procedure as last year?
Same procedure as every year, James… Or, at least, somehow it seems to me like at least once each year I decide goin’ through the tedious procedure of choosing the mail user agent utilized to handle...
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[german]wtp+tomcat – Tutorial #1: Ein leeres...
[german] Ich bin seit Jahr und Tag begeisterter Nutzer von Eclipse zur Entwicklung von Web-Anwendungen in Verbindung mit Apache Tomcat und den Web Tools, einem Gespann, das so beeindruckend...
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wtp+tomcat – Tutorial #3: (Tag-)Libraries und Präsentation
Rückblick: In den vorangegangenen beiden Teilen dieses Tutorials hatten wir eine grundlegende Dynamic Web Project – Struktur auf Basis einer Apache Tomcat-Umgebung angelegt, Code in Form von JSPs...
View Articlewebdev’s “holy Grail”?
[english]After having built a set of both internal and public applications making use of standard JEE web tier (servlets, JSPs, tag libs), I got back to dealing with the Grails framework again, an...
View Articletranslated wtp tutorials…
Just a short note as I have seen this very article attracting quite a bunch of visitors lately: This weekend I took the time to translate the first of the “wtp+tomcat” tutorials available on this site...
View Articlemove#1 : NetBeans 6.0
Well… I wasn’t sure I’d do it, and yet I am almost through: Quite a bunch of weeks ago I spent quite some of my spare time moving most of my work projects to maven2 as build / dependency management /...
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move #4: taggin’ the tag
Being into writing XML documents as well as XML schema definitions once in a while during my work days, so far I’ve enjoyed playing around with the Eclipse XML authoring tools, and by now after moving...
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Solaris XDE 1/08, Nexenta Core 1.0
For the first time in 2008, the Solaris Express Developers Edition has seen an updated release which is available both for download (*.iso and VMWare image) and as a DVD kit to be ordered free of...
View ArticleNetBeans: Beta, once again…
Oh yeah, time passes quickly… Seems it was only yesterday to deal with the prerelease builds of NetBeans 6.0, by now things are already “beta” once again, steadily heading for the 6.1 release supposed...
View ArticleMeshCMS: lightweight Java cms
Let’s get it straight: Most of the time, I hate dealing with content management systems in my professional environment, as so far I haven’t found the right solution to that: Either they don’t team up...
View ArticleUbuntu 8.04 LTS: Stable desktop and Java developers best friend.
“All operating systems include stuff you’ll never use. For example, Ubuntu 8.04 LTS includes an easy uninstall feature. We know – completely redundant. Ubuntu 8.04 LTS for desktops – you’ll never go...
View Articleos2008.05#1 : a week with OpenSolaris
Well, what do you know… Time has passed rather quickly it seems ever since I dealt with OpenSolaris here for the first time, and by now, the first “official” release, 2008.05, is available for you to...
View Articleos2008.05#2: working, tweaking, sharing files and paper…
The second day of my “working-with-opensolaris” week mainly happened to be a day of almost undisturbed / uninterrupted work, not really reminding me that I am working with a different environment right...
View Articleos2008.05#3: supporting “another” world and some more devices…
Overall insight of this day: If wanting to use OpenSolaris on a daily basis, I need more disk space; 12 GB isn’t just enough so far… While generally being sufficient, as soon as something like...
View ArticleWebSynergy: portal development renewed?
Quite a while ago, there has been an announcement publishing a collaboration between Sun Microsystems and Liferay in order to create what eventually could be referred to as a “next-generation web...
View ArticleOpenSolaris 2008.11 and “the slider”
Whoever has a look at things to come once in a while noticed that, downloading and running the up-to-date OpenSolaris ISOs available at genunix.org, OpenSolaris 2008.11, the next (and second) release...
View ArticleGlassfish V3 Prelude comin’ to life…
As of today, November 6, release V3 Prelude of the Glassfish Application Server is about to be officially announced, putting an end to quite a long period of development, testing and documentation...
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XFCE 4.4.3 on OpenSolaris 2008.11 pre-release
Playing with OpenSolaris once again, I surely also wanted to make use of my favorite desktop environment XFCE on that platform. Unfortunately, so far there are no up-to-date XFCE binary packages...
View ArticleSongbird: 1.0
They’ve gone quite a long way: Songbird, the open-source cross platform music player based upon the technical foundation of Mozilla, finally has seen its 1.0.0 release, available for download for...
View Articleenabling equinox osgi console on tomcat/linux
At the moment I am heavily into playing around with server-sided OSGi, mainly to get knee-deep into the Eclipse RAP plaform for a given use case, and I already had to experience quite some pain...
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NetBeans 6.7: still the only (maven2) IDE you’ll ever need…
Now that NetBeans 7.0 6.7 is just around the corner and comes with a set of interesting improvements, I wanted to take a few moments again reflecting what has eventually been most important to me in...
View Article“Dafür zahl ich nicht!”
An sich bin ich bekennender Unterstützer der Idee öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunkes, weil ich der Meinung bin, daß auch in der Welt von Radio und Fernsehen, die ja als Medium immer noch vorrangig die...
View Articlesmall-time SOA: lessons learnt so far…
Some time ago, in the midst of migrating at least parts of our application from an all-integrated proprietary monolith to a more “open” approach, we quickly came to embracing at least parts of the SOA...
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jvisualvm: analyzing NetBeans and beyond…
As I am usually doing day-to-day work using daily builds of the NetBeans IDE, then and now I happen to run into, let’s say, peculiar situations in which figuring out what actually happens is pretty...
View Articlecyrus imapd: shared folder hierarchy recovery
Fought a half-day fight battling with our local Cyrus IMAPd installment. And talking complexity again: We’re using right this mail server implementation because it provides extensive support for shared...
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stunned: CentOS 5.3 VNC installation
Having been a merry Ubuntu GNU/Linux user for a couple of years now and, lately, kind of “flirting” with OpenSolaris for some reasons, these days once again I experienced what I like about technology,...
View Articleeclipse+maven2: still a rough ride…
Once you get back to trying… After using NetBeans IDE for the past couple of years mainly (even though not only) for its excellent support of projects based upon the maven2 build tool, right now I am...
View ArticleSAP, open-ness and moving to Oracle?
There have been a couple of different posts in various SAP related blogs recently, as well as some responses by non-SAP(?) folks, dealing with Java technology (especially in light of the ongoing...
View ArticleJava EE “bulk update”: NetBeans 6.8, Glassfish V3, Java EE 6
“Get Tomorrow Today” is what, these days, one can read while visiting the NetBeans web site. Well. Indeed. Today, a major update of Suns Java (Enterprise) environment for development, deployment,...
View ArticleUI tooling and beyond in NetBeans and Eclipse(4)
Whoever is reading this weblog more or less regularly will have noticed that I am an enthusiastic user of NetBeans for most of my development needs, and this holds true even now that, given a current...
View ArticleC# and mono: getting some feet wet…
Well, some of the readers of these pages will have noticed that, carefully speaking, my enthusiasm for Microsoft technology is pretty limited. “Limited” indeed is the right way of putting it: While I...
View Articledigging into the Palm Pre…
After being with my K800i for more than three years, indeed I wonder why actually get a new cell phone, why bother dealing with syncing contacts, configurations, … between two devices again? Well,...
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a better mouse trap #1: persistence, document storage and couchdb
Ever considered building a better mouse trap? Well. I do, actually, each and every day anew. I will leave out most of the more in-depth considerations related to this, as for now they don’t matter –...
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services monitoring, flap detection and mail flooding
There are features in software which you learn to estimate just the very moment you understand why they are there. By now, running nagios internally for monitoring the availability of server hardware...
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