Archive for May, 2006



Is werx dead?

Werx is a type safe intra-application message bus in Java. I’ve been a happy werx user for a while, but when I headed back to the werx website the developers obvisously haven’t renewed their domain (downloads can be still found on the werx sf website;). The developers aren’t answering questions, so is the project dead?

Lately I’ve been reading Just one thing. This is not only an excellent and enjoyable book about investing money, but there are some essays which are beautiful written and interesting for software developers. There is an essay about biases of investors. All those biases apply to software developers when they talk about their tools and […]

After some months where the source hibernated on my hard drive, I’ve packaged and shipped it at last. The first release of Messages is now available. Messages is a open source framework to make internationalization easier for Java applications. It supports locales for threads and bundles can be associated with different packages. This allows the […]

The rules for a sucessfull business are easy:
- The customer is the most important thing in your business
- The best business plan is to sell people the things they want
- Your business is successfull if your earnings are higher than your spendings
Sounds easy, most startups forget all three of those rules.




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Stephan Schmidt is the project manager for Reposita. He is one of the founders of SnipSnap and is the lead on Radeox. Stephan has been working as a project manager and CTO and is currently a team manager at ImmobilienScout24 in Berlin. He can be reached at stephan@reposita.org. All views are only his own.

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