Author Archives: Reiner

I recently stumbled upon a problem within a NetBeans mobile project: The editor for the items within an application descriptor would no longer open. Instead a red light on NetBeans frame (all the way down and to the right) would … Continue reading →

Wondering about best practices on how to use HttpConnection with J2ME, I had a peek at the sources and to my surprise, I found out, that HttpConnection should offer both keep-alive and chunking without any additional application code (e.g. adding … Continue reading →

I encountered a tiny problem using Gmail Offline with Google Apps Premier, that might apply only to some non-US countries. The Create Desktop Shortcuts action does not create any shortcut at all (at the time of this writing and using … Continue reading →

I’d like to demonstrate GlassFish configuration settings that will cause GlassFish v2ur2 (aka SJAS 9.1_02) to to send alert emails on logging errors or warnings. A trivial task for an application server that implements a plethora of standards and offers … Continue reading →

Update (Vodafone) In Germany there is a saying “Don’t praise the day before dusk”. Two days after having published my praise for Yoigo here, they may have uncovered my “excessive” service usage. The bright coach has now turned into a … Continue reading →

Grails injects a log object for each artifact, but these loggers are not accessible within static methods. Here’s a quick-and-dirty code snippet sample that demonstrates how to log from a static method within domain class Account. The trick is to … Continue reading →

Half an hour ago I wanted to chat with a colleague of mine. I’m not that much into chatting, but into moving all and everything to Google Apps, so I’m on Google Talk (on my mobile as well), but my … Continue reading →