Stephans Blog

JavaRebel promises Ruby on Rails and PHP reloadability for Java. It is a library that works as an agent to the Java Virtual machine and helps the VM dynamically reload Java classes when they have changed. The setup I used was a fairly large application with dozends of modules, tomcat 6 and Eclipse as my […]

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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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 […]

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 […]

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% […]

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 […]

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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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 […]