Just coming from having to push a Java Application out to the clients machine via Java Web Start. Everything went pretty well, after signing all the Jar’s. This, so they could sneak outside the “security sandbox” that Java Web Start plugs around downloaded applications. The (maybe) unusual thing in our setup was, that the jnlp [...]
Once again I went into the Skype Trap. Today, I decided to try out Elgg. Elgg is an open source version of a social network platform. The nice thing is, you can download it and host it on your own servers. This is particularly useful if you don’t want anybody else to mess with your [...]
I finally fixed the intransparent picture in the header of this blog. The picture of the “yellow marker”: This is a PNG. Only in Internet Explorer it looked like this. I changed it with Photoshop to a GIF: Now the header looks the same, and good, everywhere. I did not notice earlier, because I NEVER [...]
It has been a long time since my last post. I was very busy. Sorry for that. Here comes another technical article on a book: “Contributing to Eclipse: Principles, Patterns, and Plug-Ins”, published by Addison-Wesley. It is written by Erich Gamma (co-author of the “OO-Bible” Design Patterns, technical director of the IBM Research lab Zurich [...]
