Stephans Blog

I’ve been wondering for some time, when it’s best to post to your technology blog.
There are several factors

aggregators like javablogs.com or groovyblogs.org
different times zones like US-west, US-east and Europe
different times of day where people read
weekdays or weekends
social news sites like reddit or digg
article sites like artima, the serverside, infoq or dzone
different audiences

I’m not sure […]

Dion wrote about SLF4J and how only the Java community can make such a fuzz about logging. His captcha is broken, I can’t comment there so here is my thought on the issue:
From my impression into Rails and Erlang land, others have not reached the problem of proper log configuration, deployment and the need for […]

Beware of the class loader. I recently had a major testing problem with some code because I didn’t take the (sometimes ugly) Java class loading mechanism into account. There was a small class where I wanted to unit test the calculateAge method.

class AgeCalculator {
public int calculateAge(Person person) {
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After some debate of getting the rights to Radeox and a some negotiations I decided to fork Radeox. Radeox is an open source wiki render engine for Java which turns wiki markup into HTML and which is successfully used in several wikis. For years I was the lead developer for Radeox but that changed when […]

Just to keep you updated, I’m still negotiating the Radeox rights but after lots of requests I’ve put the SVN up again.
http://www.radeox.org/
http://svn.reposita.org/svn/radeox/
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Reading the post at contekst.org about “Why did Java succeed ?” I thought to myself, there will be no next Java. The post mentions some ideas people have about why Java succeeded. Copying Smalltalk, the J2EE standard, Java is mediocre (Paul Graham is so funny sometimes), WORA or Eclipse.
My comments on why did Java really […]

I’ve switched! After using Parallels for some time to run Windows applications I’ve tried the VMWare Beta. And I was astonished how polished the Beta already was. It felt much more stable and professional than Parallels. And when with Parallels I had troubles even after I upgraded to 2gb of memory and it captured 100% […]

The IconFinder website is pure genius. Highly appreciated. With icon finder you can search with keywords through free (CC and LGPL) icon libraries. I often find myself searching through the clear or famfamfam icons which are in different directories or on different computers. I hope IconFinder will grow to other collections. I’ll stay tuned..
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Catchy title. But the guys from ALTERthought have some - much needed - numbers. Their numbers show Grails to be more productive than Rails, which is in turn more productive than Spring and pure JEE. As I’ve argued for years, there is no science in computer science. We need to put facts back into computer […]