On a rainy morning I found myself sitting on the desk thinking about efficient working. Before I started as a freelancer I had some days were I worked lots but could look only back on a worse outcome. I started with Zen practice back in 2006. What clearly came to my mind before a good [...]
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The 10 rules of a Zen programmer
Friday, February 3rd, 2012How I select Open Source projects
Wednesday, January 25th, 2012Earlier this day somebody sent a image on twitter. Its title was something like, “how to choose Open Source projects” or so. It showed a flow chart. The first decision point was: is it an Apache project. If yes, so the creator suggests, don’t use the project. I was looking at this image and thought: [...]
Precompiling hogan.js/mustache templates on a Java server with Struts 2
Monday, January 16th, 2012Hogan.js is some kind of a wrapper around Mustache (for JavaScript). Mustache is a template mechanism I wanted to use, and Hogan.js provided me a nice interface for it. This means, when I now refer to “Hogan” templates in fact they are “Mustache” templates. In this post I will describe how you can compile your [...]
10 reasons why Dart is cooler than JavaScript
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012Dart is a new programming language from Google and after coding JavaScript for over one year now, I immediately felt in love with it. Coming from the Java world I had a good bunch of things I had to learn before I could use JavaScript. Some people say, you need to dig deep into JavaScript, [...]
Apache log4php 2.2.0 released
Wednesday, December 21st, 2011Dear all, The Apache log4php team is pleased to announce the release of Apache log4php 2.2.0. Significant changes in this release include: a full rewrite of the configuration logic which greatly improves error reporting inline configuration using PHP arrays a new web site with better documentation and more examples a new layout: serialized Release notes, [...]
Google Dart native on WebKit?
Thursday, December 8th, 2011It looks like Dart is going to become native on the WebKit Browser. On monday some Googlers sent message to the WebKit folks proposing to add Dart bindings to the software. Google Developer Vijay Menon said, native bindings might be preferred over “language X to javascript tools” because its quicker without compiling to javascript developers [...]
GTUG – Google Dart Talk (with Seth Ladd)
Thursday, December 8th, 2011Seth Ladd on Google Dart Seth Ladd is a “Google Advocate”. In this talk he speaks about Google Dart and explains why it is cool (and yes, I agree it is cool). This is a pretty nice brown bag with a size of 70 minutes. If you still have no clue on Dart look at [...]
Bookreview: Apache Maven 3 Cookbook
Thursday, December 8th, 2011In my limited spare time I was reading the Apache Maven 3 Cookbook by Srirangan. It is (as the title suggests) from the Cookbook series which aims to provide answers to commons problems. One could say, it some kind of FAQ, just that it goes deeper very often. After reading the great and very useful [...]
Android AutoComplete with JSON Data served by Struts 2
Monday, December 5th, 2011Recently I decided not to use Phonegap/Callback for my new Android app but to build it native. With IntelliJ the first steps were so straightforward and promising that I was excited to work in the Java language, which is more natural to me than JavaScript. So far I have not regret my decision, except that [...]
New Dart Editor Version 1910
Saturday, December 3rd, 2011Google just announced a new Dart Editor version. You can get if from here: http://gsdview.appspot.com/dart-editor-archive-integration/latest/ These are the improvements: Moved bundled libraries out of plugins into new “libraries” directory Indexer improvements including integration into builder Editor tab tooltip shows path of the files being edited Problems view sorting fixes New File wizard to opens created [...]
