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Have a look at Google Trends to see who’s likely to survive 🙂 Ok, I’ll admit to be a Maven fan – because it’s the only one that has a holistic concept. …that will never make it into the heads … Continue reading →

Working on a Grails project that needs to access a legacy database, I’ve used the Hibernate Tools for Eclipse and Ant to create annotated EJB3 entity classes. As the database model uses some peculiar concepts (e.g. char(1) for booleans), I … Continue reading →

Z.B. bei heise mobil – 11.05.09 – Vodafone und T-Mobile: Kein Streit mit Nokia wegen Skype-Handy liest man darüber, dass Vodafone und T-Online zuerst jegliche Skype-Nutzung verbieten und blockieren wollten, nun aber doch plötzlich wieder vom Monopol-Saulus zum kundenfreundlichen Paulus … Continue reading →

When you google for Google Chrome and Java you’ll find poor souls that are driven to distraction by Chrome insisting that there is no Java 6 Update 10 or later installed. Maybe, there are no problems on a clean virgin-like … Continue reading →

As I’ve just learnt from Benjamin’s Blog, the Nullpointer discussed yesterday that causes various NetBeans dialogues to fail almost silently when running NetBeans 6.5 with Java 6 Update 12 (6u12) has now been fixed. And yes, I’m now again able … Continue reading →

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 →