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...
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