September 24th, 2009

Eclipse Galileo SR1

I just started downloading the SR1 release of Eclipse Galileo. According to bugzilla, there were 241 bugs fixed with this release.

Can’t wait for the download to finish to check if Eclipse is working better on Snow Leopard…

July 20th, 2009

Fundstück zum Thema Patente

Habe ich in Twitter gefunden:

Erst wenn der letzte Programmierer verhaftet
und die letzte Idee patentiert ist,
werdet ihr merken,
dass Anwälte nicht programmieren können!

April 27th, 2009

Creative Commons

Man kann es toll finden.

Oder auch nicht…

Why Photographers Hate Creative Commons

Bin über Twitter drüber gestolpert.

August 30th, 2008

Stop this “my support is better than yours” discussion!

Ok, someone is making money with support.
Ok, someone is not contributing to OSS.
But wait – is offering support not exactly that? Contributing to OSS by doing the dirty work no one wants to do?

That’s why I do not agree entirely with the label “parasites”. It is not easy to offer support, IMHO it is a [...]

May 5th, 2008

SpringSource announces an application plattform

SpringSource recently announced the Spring Aplication Platform, and this announcement is generating a lot of fuss. Google has recently launched the Google App Engine. From an Java enterprise developers point of view it is shamelessly easy to use, deploy, etc. Well, unfortunately it only takes Python apps for now, but it is stated that there [...]

April 29th, 2008

GPL, GWT, GXT, FSF, confusion

I really believe that switching to GPL did more harm then good. A forum thread of more than 50 pages is no good sign…

It is quite hard to tell how GPL works for web applications. Does sending html/css/javascript code to a browser mean I am conveying the application to the user?

What is the application in [...]

April 27th, 2008

LGPL, dynamic linking and Java

Just came across this one:

It has always been the FSF’s position that dynamically linking applications to libraries creates a single work derived from both the library code and the application code. The GPL requires that all derivative works be licensed under the GPL, an effect which can be described as “hereditary.” So, if an application [...]

April 27th, 2008

MyGWT ist no more…

Maybe some of you already visited the project homepage of MyGWT in the last days. Yes, MyGWT is gone. The project got finally “moved” to the extjs project, something that was announced long ago.

I was surprised to see GXT getting GPLed. Or better, dual licensed. There is the open source license (GPL), and there is [...]

April 22nd, 2008

Analysing trends

After Rod Johnson demonstrated “Job Trends” with indeed.com, here some nice tools…

GWT and JSF….

http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=gwt%2C+jsf&l=

http://www.google.com/trends?q=GWT%2C+JSF&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0

http://markmail.org/

Unfortunately markmail does not support comparison, you will have to do it by hand.