Links for 2009-05-29

There is a new Windows 7 Blog by Microsoft MVPs
On DrBacchus is also a short article about the PHP MVC framework CakePHP. And a list of top-10 php frameworks on mustap.com
On MSDN there is a five part webcast series about programming with the task parallel library which will be part of Visual Studio 2010.
In his [...]

Links for 2009-05-12

On 14.May there is free webinar about JSF 2.0 by Ed Burns.
Pearl provides with Tape2PC a hardware solution for copying from MC (music cassetes) to your PC (mp3).
With CamSpace you could control games, windows an applications via webcam. There is foto galery by chip.de.
Saros is a free available Eclipse plugin for pair programming. A demo [...]

Links for 2009-01-28

I read a blog about „How to log“ which refers to the logging checklist. If you want to get benefit from your logs, you should have a look at them.
According to Testticker.DE and ZDnet.de Microsoft gives software to students for free.
Another blog gave me the link to Java To C# Orange Book, which I’ll read [...]

Vista looses monitor settings … (no more)

I have two notebooks (Dell Lattitude D510 + Acer Aspire 5920G) connected via KMV-switch conntected to a 28″ monitor. It is nice to switch between the two notebooks. But while switching to the Dell (with WinXP) works fine, switching to the Acer is a pain: Vista always looses the monitor settings. The external monitor should [...]

I found an overview article …

On JavaWorld John Ferguson Smart wrote a nice article about some of the most interesting Java evolutions in 2008. He discovers tools for Build automatisation (Hudson, Bamboo, Maven, Ant, Grant, Gradle, Subversion), Testing tools (JBehave, easyb, Selenium, WebTest) and IDEs (Eclipse, NetBeans). Conclusion: a very nice read.

Hot to get GPS location data for a given adress?

I wanted to update my Apache FOAF-file. Especially I wanted to add geo data <foaf:based_near><geo:Point>. But where to get that information? From Google Maps? I havent found any „Get GPS“ button so I had to search … and found a short article. Basically it is easy: the location is stored in the ll-Parameter of the [...]

Software Engeneering Radio

Cool. A new episode was released: 55 Refactoring Pt. 2 [1]. It seems to be a follow up to the first episode [2]. I’ll burn them onto CD for my car. It’s a long journey between home and office
[1] http://www.se-radio.net/index.php?post_id=205444
[2] http://www.se-radio.net/index.php?post_id=172668

NoClassDefFound – but it’s _definitely_ there …

A collegue had a problem: the JUnit test failed. But not with a „normal“ error – it couldnt find a class. But the class was compiled in MyEclipse. So where is the difference between compile and test? It’s the run configuration. But … the jar containing the class was there. And I could find that [...]

MS Vista

I need an operating system that manages all my hardware resources. Not one that consumes all of them …
End of last year I got an offer. Vista Ultimate and Office Enterprise (or how the big one is named) for very very little money. Last week I got the DVDs and tried to install them onto [...]

Firefox PlugIns

There are some plugins for Firefox I would to recommend:

Web Developer Extension: If you write html pages and want to have an overview about your pages. WDE will help you …
DownThemAll: With this plugin it is very easy to download multiple link targets at once. E.g. if you have a page with a TOC [...]