Archive for February, 2008



Opening my mailbox - those for letters not the one on my Mac - revealed a letter from my old energy provider Vattenfall. I’ve changed the provider last year from Vattenfall Europe to Lichtblick because the Vattenfall service was bad, I didn’t want to support nuclear power any longer and because their prices increased sharply. […]

How to PUT binary data with REST?

Base64 in XML? Multi-mime? See the question, add a comment if you have an answer, the Google results are not very satisfying. Someone clearly solved the problem. But all REST discussions I’ve found do not adress the problem. Even the “RESTful Web Services” bible is mostly silent on the topic (And I don’t want to […]

While playing with Web Beans I thought it would be nice to add Web Beans support to Jersey. Jersey is a JSR 311 implementation for RESTful web services in Java. Though it has taken some flak, I - and others - think it’s easy to use. Because it’s easy in Jersey to control the creation […]

Playing with JSR 299 - Web Beans

You can play with WebBeans! WebBeans looks nice as a web-layer-aware IoC container. I’ve been starring at Seam and Gavin to get my hands on a WebBeans implementation. Waiting. Consider my astonishment when I found the working Resin WebBeans implementation.
It’s easy to get started with the JSF example. There are also example implementations for Wicket […]

5 years Scrum experience talk experience

Lately a colleague sent me an interesting note about a Scrum talk: “5 years of Scrum experience”. Because facts are scarce about Scrum and real world, big company experiences are even more scarce, I thought “Excellent!” and went for it. So yesterday after work, I jumped into the high speed train from Berlin to Hamburg […]

My bash shell scripting has gotten very rusty lately (and ugly), but it’s still good enough to have some fun. For my photo site I need a short program which creates a description string like “Shot with Canon PowerShot S3 IS at 63.9 mm (383.4 mm), 1/320 s, 100, Matrix, F3.5, Auto” from an image. […]

GMail rising to 6404 MB

Last time I checked Gmail, I had 4758 MB space on my GMail account. This time I have 6404 MB. Thanks again.
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Did Guice Development stop?

I’ve been considering Guice for a project, but I’m not so sure anymore. Development seems to have stopped. There are no new releases, no SVN activity. What do you think?
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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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