Sunday, September 13, 2009

How Do You Welcome Someone In Spanish

Airplane Security and Explosives...

BBC had a brief coverage on the effect of a small amount of liquid explosive on a commercial airplane (found via Bruce Schneier ).

After viewing that, I'm pretty happy the EU and other countries Do not allow unidentified liquids on board ....

Gamefisher Outboard Motors

Geniales Rockerlebnis: Queen Kings

picturesquely situated in the forest pool, we had a concert special experience (!): The Queen Kings rocked incredibly close to the brilliant original, fresh, exciting and musically good. Almost three hours of music for 16 € admission fee (children and had free entry) - call the 'I value-for-money . Rarely have I enjoyed

a bass solo such as the entertaining presentation by Rolf Sander, the seamless passage of Smoke-on-the-Water in his cover of Another-one-bites-the-Dust: Stunning, congratulations!

The voices of Mirko and the backstage Dame Susan get under your skin, the guitar solos sound
masterly, and the drum part of Matti Schmidt was inspiring good, a instesamt compelling experience.

We go back out - no question!

Monday, September 7, 2009

Midnight Hot Uncen Sored

"Escheresque" 404...

I admire the folks from dropbox for their unobtrusive, reliable, high-performance and well-supported service ... While researching some

dict.cc updates for my MacBook, I found a link
to the Dropbox-404-Not-Found-Site :-)

Well done...



Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Disease Bruise Easily

I stopped using Eclipse...

Ever had hassle with your numerous Eclipse plugins? With update-manager complaining about missing dependencies, which nobody ever could resolve?

With re-installing your (free) development environment every now and then?

After giving the latest Eclipse ("Galileo") a try, I just dumped it: After configuring Spring, Scala, webservice, subversion and a few other plugins, the whole app did not even bother to start...

Having been Eclipse user for several years, I am really grateful for their contribution to (Java) software development. But it has become an overly complex monster in my (humble) opinion.

I lighthearted moved over to IntelliJ-IDEA - their slogan "develop with pleasure" became true within the first hour of using IDEA (I tried both 8.1.3 and their early-access version 9). Grails and Groovy support is excellent, Scala plugin working fine, subversion support the best I ever had, even Clojure working (ok - that one can definitely be improved, but true lisp programmers should stick to Emacs )

Proud user of The best Java IDE

Cost To Jointhe Weymouth Club

die "Vierte"...

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Yesterday is published by Hanser the fourth edition of my book "Effective Software Architecture . The current version has risen by 30 pages to 435 pages.

It is now available on 50 pages example architectures (I describe a system for data migration and a CRM product family, both real existing systems). This chapter to the publisher free download as appetizers ...

explain in another new chapter, I standardized curriculum for software architects ISAQB in short form. Other new features are found

under-the-cover . In virtually every chapter I have cleaned up, corrected and updated.

If you notice any errors, omissions or inconsistencies, I look forward to your feedback!