Stephans Blog

Inspired by a post on Coding Horror I’m dropping advertisements here.
“I am no fan of advertising. I hate the fact that most websites are plastered with obnoxious, barely relevant ads. I’ve considered advertising before, but I rejected it. I don’t want to be part of the problem.”
I too hate the fact that most websites are […]

Paul Graham is a funny guy. From one point in history, where he wrote an unmaintainable (they had to drop it) and unsuccessfull (Amazon has beaten them) piece of software which he sold to someone clueless (Yahoo will go down in flames) with too much money (they again buy companies without clue), he extrapolates (from […]

Just to let you know: Since my departure from my old employer three months ago I’ve tried to get the Radeox rights for further development through several different channels. But no final decision from any channel. As it currently looks I won’t get the rights for future developements which is quite sad. I will still […]

The biggest problem with tales about software success is that they only show the survivors. This problem is independent of the domain, be it Rails, Scrum or CMMI success stories. Survivor bias is when you only look at the survivors of a process and then attribute the success of the survivors to some attributes like […]

There is a lot of discussion about concise code. Comparing Java to Ruby, obviously Ruby has more concise code (This article contains code examples, which could be written better and which experienced Java and Ruby developers would write in differently. But the examples were chosen to illustrate points).
Compare this Ruby code taken from the Pragmatic […]

I thought about open source and had lots of discussion in the past few years about open source in general, business models, different and superiour licenses, pragmatic open source and stuff. As I’ve been also developing open source software for the last twenty years, I’m interested in the state of the open source developers.
Some […]

After fiddling around with the security framework Gabriel I wrote some time back and which I need for Reposita. I thought about combining Gabriel with Google Guice for fun. The only problem was that Gabriel can be used with interceptors to protect methods. How could I get them working with Guice?
I was using Dynaop, […]