How to fool another person by asking many questions
Mean trick: If someone tries to nail you down in a dialogue, simply ask him a few silly questions and he will be lost. This entry
Shopping list for Enterprise Architects
Adrian Grigoriu wrote What an enterprise architect needs to know, a nice starting point for a shopping list about the basic knowle
Do you want to know who is near you?
Imagine you see „the most beautiful girl in the world“ sitting in the same restaurant, within 20 meters around you? Wouldn’t it be
Teaching Beethoven to blackbirds
Just found a wonderful piece of art this week: William Engelen, an artist from Berlin, started a new project in Bonn, Germany. He
The root of the word "trivial"
Today, I came across the seven liberal arts (artes liberales in Latin) which were the basis for the education of students in the m
OOP 2007: Patterns effektiv einsetzen - die Anatomie erfolgreicher Projekte
* Januar 2007 * OOP 2007: Konferenz für objektorientiertes Programmieren ICM Messe München Jim Coplien hat mit seinen „Organ
Found wget for Mac OS X
Today, I realized that my Mac OS X does not contain the useful wget utility. I found a blog entry that told me how to get it. Than
Groovy is groovy
For AndroMDA 4, I designed a plugin registry configuration language and a workflow language, both of them based on XML. After some
Parallels on the Mac: Where is my Insert key?
I am working with Parallels Desktop on the Mac which runs Windows XP in a virtual machine, directly on the hardware, without emula
Pretty cool Eclipse plugin for editing resource bundles
If you create Java applications for a lot of languages, this tool might be the right thing for you: the resource bundle editor plu
Subversion for the Mac: the tricks to make it work
Today, I installed Subversion and Subclipse on the Mac. It was a little tricky, so I’ll document it here. This is how I did it. I
UMTS for the MacBook (Intel)
When I’m on the road, I am connected to the world via UMTS. That way, I am online everywhere, independent of a WLAN hotspot. You m