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A post by Randy Patterson on creating fluent interfaces in C# got me thinking. Randy shows how to create a Fluent Interface to build an object. He uses a Person class (POJO) with setFirstName and a PersonFluentInterface class with firstName. Creating an object and setting some attributes needs quite a lot of code:

Person person = […]

After Ilias comment on my last blog post about the open source IDEA license we solved the problem with my mail and I’m a proud owner of an IDEA license. Thank you very much IntelliJ. Some money saved and the hell of Eclipse prevented :-)
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I need a tough decision to make. I’ve been using and evangelizing IDEA from the first IDEA release several years back. Whenever I came to a new company I introduced IDEA as an IDE and kept using it for commercial and open source use since then. Because I’m less productive with other IDEs I moved […]

When you’ve got nothing better to do, take a look at Google Trends. Although it’s not scientific, you can gain some insights into trends. Today I was astonished: At last wikis overtook blogs on google trends. When I wrote about the future of Radeox one month ago, blog still overtook wiki as a search term […]

There is a national holiday in Germany and I’ve flipping through the Groovy book in search for regex examples and groovysh usages. When browsing through the index, I found Radeox was mentioned. Heureka. What a nice feeling. Thanks Dierk that made my day.
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I’ve rewrote some documentation for Reposita Messages. Currently I use Apple Pages. This allows for nice design and nice writing. I consider using DocBook as it allows others easier to contribute to the documentation process. But it’s hard to get DocBook working and create a nice Design for DocBook. Guessing that Hibernate and Spring use […]