OpenSolaris 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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