We are famous …

Very funny. I created a Google Alert with some criterias so that I would get a message if there is something new about my ensemble Niederrhein Brass. I was very surprised that we were refered by Wikipedia.

Long time ago …

My last commit to Args4J was long time ago. But I was happy, that my environment works - and also my knowledge about the project itself And the pause was fine because I startet a new try to implement the setting of Map-entries …. with success. Now you can have a bean with
@Option(name=”-map” java.util.Map [...]

Google Summer of Code 2008

Cool - some years ago I got the idea that refactoring support for Ant buildfiles would be nice and opened a feature request on Eclipse. Now (three years later) this (maybe) could be done in a GSoC project because now it is proposed by the Eclipse team.

IT-News 2008.03.11

English announcement on OSnews: PCMag should have compared different OSes for Intel processors.

How to control the desktop

Magnus has a nice German article about a new scenario: you can control your computer by one or more (up to eight) fingers … Mmh … I think I have read something like that from Microsoft Surface or Apple iPod Touch or iPhone or Dell Latitude XT Tablet PC . But the difference is that [...]

Eclipse Spaces

Henrik Lindberg writes in his blog about Eclipse Spaces, which provides the ability to publish the current workspace as update site. With that you could easily provide tutorials or blogs. Sounds very interesting … I dont know if required plugins would also be published. So you could e.g. create an
XText editor and publish that example. [...]

IT-News 2008.03.10

German announcement of the free available German book “Internetrecht” (PDF)  about legal issues in the internet.
German announcement of a free book (PDF) with tips and tricks about Photoshop Lightroom. The author is an English photograph, so the book could be also in English …
German announcement of CUBiT  Sound interesting: environment of virtual servers for continous [...]

xAMP @ Mobile

Hooray - there will be an AMP-Stack for mobiles
As Golem announced Nokia works on a port of Apache, MySQL and PHP for Symbian S60 operating system.
Mmmh … what could you do with this? A SVN-Server with access over that Apache? A PHP based project wiki and bug tracking? Then just lay your mobile [...]

IT-News 2007.10.25

German article: Ruby on Rails - Deployment mit Capistrano
Capistrano is a tool for deploying RoR onto multiple servers - with rollback. I should read that … and what can I lean for my Java apps? We’ll see…

IT-News 2007.10.22

German Article: advocate forbid to see the HTML source of their homepage
But I am not sure how they would bind people to load their page with a browser …
VirtualAnt is released.
There is a free license for open source projects.
Web-Harvest 1.0 released.
It seems to be a nice project and I should spend some time on converting [...]