Stephans Blog

I thought about what I did in the past. In the 90s I was heavily into developing applications with dynamic languages. Mostly Perl and Python. And a lot of Ruby later. They were much easier and faster to develop than C. Especially Python had the best web frameworks back then. Other languages we used like […]

My former employer finally put SnipSnap to rest. A sad timefor me, I’ve put a lot of emotion and time into SnipSnap, but a clean ending - at last. The second act, after I left SnipSnap. Hopefully not the final one, as the comments to the SnipSnap blog post suggest. I wish them luck and […]

First let me congratulate the Helma team for their 1.6 release. Helma is an awesome piece of software with a long stable history. And the developers are friendly, innovative and clever. If you want server side Javascript, go for Helma. But I thought about how Helma does compare to other web application platforms? Especially to […]

After reading about new Groovy and Grails user groups around the world, I thought there might be Groovy and Grails users in Berlin. I would be interested in meeting to exchange ideas and experiences. Anyone interested?
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Hi, when the license allows this, would it be possible for someone (IntelliJ?) to provide a binary of the Groovy plugin? I need one :-) I couln’t get it working with the (excellent) how to which floated through the groovysphere for some time. Any help appreciated.
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Update to my black swan post. I found an excellent quote in a risk book about hedge funds, A demon of our own design (as always no partner link) which reflects my black swan post. Richard Bookstaber writes about risk management for financial instruments: “The types of risk that could be readily measured were better […]

As a project manager I’ve been doing risk managment in software projects for years and as an event manager in private too. And I’ve been to several workshops about project and risk management. It basically boils down to rating the impact and the probability of risks and then plan actions to prevent, solve or mitigate […]