One of the most impressive talks for me at WWDC 2010 was session 306 – “Automating Use Interface Testing with Instruments”. I’ve been wanting to check it out ever since…

Today, I tried to install parts of the SpringSource Tool Suite into Eclipse Helios SR1 via update-site. After finding the right update-site of the STS for version 3.6 of eclipse…

OpenCms ships with a shell script for accessing the virtual file system from the command line. This is useful for a lot of administrative tasks like importing modules or exporting…

Solr is a search server that bundles a lot of useful Lucene modules and provides an HTTP interface for querying and updating the data. The index and most of the…

This year in November three of my colleagues and I were visiting the best Java conference ever – Devoxx in Antwerp (blogs here: 1,2,3). Now, since more than a month…

… Und es war ein erfolgreiches Jahr! Um gemeinsam darauf anzustoßen, noch bevor uns die Weihnachts-Urlaubs-Welle erwischt, veranstalteten wir letzten Freitag ein zum Jahresende traditionelles Raclette mit, zur kalten Jahreszeit…

OpenCms stores all its content like JSP-templates, images and CSS files in a virtual file system which makes it impossible to use normal development models. As we are using it…

Sometimes even the simple things take quite some time. For a special application log I’ve been searching for a way to write log calls for one package to a separate…

So this is the second part of my experiences with Devoxx 2010. I’ll still stick to not writing about the talks in detail but telling my thoughts as a “first…