I wanted to remove the “author” tag from my RSS feed from WordPress lately and couldn’t find an appropriate plugin. The reason for this was that I am co-writing for a blog but we don’t want to show individual authors. When reading a feed in e.g. Google Reader, you either get to see the title, [...]
Today I was driving home from the Alps. My iPod was playing random songs from its 60 GigaByte repertoire. Shuffling is a great feature when you are not really sure what you want to listen to… Of course I had to skip quite a few songs. When you carry 60 GigaBytes of mp3s around, obviously [...]
Users tell you “this should be easy”, “you only have to do x”, “just another button here”? Give them the direct experience of their fallacy: **Throw the source code at them!** Today, a colleague from the sales department, an internal user of one of our IT products, said he could not imagine that the app [...]
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Sometimes it is the little things that make the biggest impact. So here is a quick solution to a common problem when using the maven archtype plugin. If you want to run the plugin with x:>mvn archtype:generate and get the error that the plugin could not be found The plugin ‘org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archtype-plugin’ does not exist or [...]
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Saturday, September 25, 2010
In this short post, I’m going to share my thoughts on why I think it is neccessary to align your software project portfolios growth with that of the development department headcount. This sounds logical enough but not actively managing this can lead to an unwanted team erosion that you will only discover when it is [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Sunday, December 17, 2006
A few years ago, when I started to work at a new company, I asked for a certain password I needed to access some systems I had to work with. One of my new colleagues told me it was “enirstuda4711″ and that it apparently was the best password ever! The reason why it was so [...]
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