A little note upfront - this is not about software development, so if you are solely here to read about my take on coding, this blog entry is not for you! A little more than 2 months ago I pre-ordered Apple's new Mac OS X 10.6 aka Snow Leopard one...

During listening to Software Engineering Radio's Episode 148 - "Software Archaeology with Dave Thomas", I got quite annoyed by a comment made by one of the respected authors of "The Pragmatic Programmer". To quote Dave Thomas correctly, here's what...

This coming Wednesday Gregor Roth from 1&1, you might know him from his InfoQ article, is going to give a talk on RESTful applications at the Java User Group Karlsruhe. He will show how to implement applications leveraging a RESTful architecture and...

This week I had to trace a bug in a legacy application, I'm maintaining at the moment, which drove me up the wall. The application uses a class from JDK's tools.jar, to determine the JVM instances currently running. Unfortunately, there are...

In my new company one of the main communication channels is IRC. Unfortunately, I'm not able to hang out on IRC all day. That means, I'm not only missing interesting discussions, but I'm also always the last to get to know about interesting...