MacBook is cool
Last week, I finally bought a MacBook Pro with Intel dual core processor. Wow! The machine is fast (6 times faster than my 4 year
How to become a hacker
This is a nice article by Eric Raymond. The hacker spirit has always intrigued me since I wrote my first moon landing simulation p
Gantt charts considered uncool
Again, I experienced problems with Gantt-chart based project planning tools in today’s IT projects. They do not scale, they are no
Wishes come true faster than expected
What did I say yesterday? I wanted a virtual Windows under Mac OS X? That was yesterday. One day later…
Windows runs on the Mac
The stock of Apple Computer, Inc. rose 6% today after Apple announced that Windows would now run on the new Intel-based Mac comput
Open-source projects fix their bugs fast
ZDNet reports that open source projects have a low bug rate and fix their bugs quite fast. I know that because I am part of a quit
Building A Calculating Machine Using LEGO® Pieces
Look at this marvellous piece of art! It is a difference engine built from a *whole lot* of LEGO pieces. Way cool thing. Must be f
Feed normalizer allows ATOM syndication in Joomla
My website is now based on the Joomla content management system. I tried to syndicate a few of my friends‘ blogs (Gernot Starke an
Architecting AndroMDA 4
At the moment, I am designing and documenting the architecture for the new release of AndroMDA. I’ll publish it as several section
OOP 2006: Medizin und Marketing - Die Rolle des Architekten in heutigen Softwareprojekten
* Januar 2006 * OOP 2006: Konferenz für objektorientiertes Programmieren ICM Messe München Die Aufgaben eines Softwarearchit
OOP is cool
I am writing this while I am at OOP 2006, the largest conference for modern software engineering principles in Germany. It’s reall
Pitfalls when localizing your app
This article by Microsoft describes a nice set of pitfalls to avoid when localizing applications. We tend to forget about these ni