'You have the following deployment options in Java EE (J2EE/5/6):

1. Deploying an EAR / WAR to a multi-project or dedicated server
2. Cluster deployment: deployment units get spread across the nodes, you get HTTPSession and @Stateful Bean failover
3. Cluster deployment, but no replication or failover. You get easy distribution and management (deactivating, disabling) of deployment units
4. Dynamic environment: your application is split across loose-coupled modules, which could be managed independently

And the mission critical strategy is:

1. Minimization of…

'It’s that time of the year again. Although it will be my fifth EclipseCon, it’s still as exciting as the first one, getting there, meet the community, discover and listen to the new stuff. Can’t wait to see you there! Oh and I’ll fly FRA-YYC-SFO this time because it will be SFO-YYZ-FRA on my way back with an overnight stay in downtown Toronto (Friday, March 26th). I’m really looking forward to meet old friends there. '…

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'EJB spec does not allow starting and managing threads ...in general. With @Singleton you can do whatever you want even: With Bean Managed Concurrency demarcation, the container allows full concurrent access to the Singleton bean instance. It is the responsibility of the bean developer to guard its state as necessary against synchronization errors due to concurrent access. The bean developer is permitted to use the Java language level synchronization primitives such as synchronized and volatile for this purpose. [EJB 3.1…

'Finally: Not quite 65 million years in the making (Jurassic Park, hint, hint), but it took about 15 months to get my first book to the printer. A few days ago Udo – my co-author – and I approved the final version of the MySQL Admin Cookbook for publishing. From what I see the book has not been added consistently to the online book stores around the net, but I will most certainly put links on here'…

'I will give a workshop - almost without slides, spending the majority of the (3h) time in the IDE (NetBeans this time, IntelliJ is also possible, but we will have definitely no time for the installation of all the nice Eclipse plugins :-)). It seems like this workshop is free for students. We will have 3h for develop something in Java EE 6 - its more than enough. We will need 10 minutes to install the IDE, application server and…

'Show Notes

• Alex Tkachman on LinkedIn
• Alex Tkachman on Twitter
• Bindows web framework
• Groovy++ Links
• Download Page and Mailing List
• A sneak peak into Groovy++ (with FAQ)
• Groovy.compareTo(Groovy++) Part 1 

New…

'I gave a talk at the Java User Group Karlsruhe last week on best and worst practices using OSGi for building business applications (thanks to David for inviting me). You can get the slides from the user group or directly here:

• OSGi Best and Worst Practices (pdf)

Thanks again for joining! The room was full of people and I especially enjoyed all the great questions and discussions during and after the talk. Thanks again, it was a pleasure to be a guest…

'Das Video zu meinem Vortrag  "8 Möglichkeiten Projekt mit Spring aufzubauen" von der letzten JAX ist jetzt online. In diesem Vortrag zeige ich einige Konfigurations-Ansätze für Spring mit den jeweiligen Vor- und Nachteilen. Dabei kommt neben den Klassikern "XML" und "Annotationen" auch einige andere Möglichkeiten zur Sprache. Hier geht es zum Video: http://it-republik.de/jaxenter/news/8-Moeglichkeiten-Projekte-mit-Spring-aufzubauen-054379.html '…

'Building modules and components is not that hard. You "only" have to encapsulate the internal component implementation and expose a clean and easy to use interface. ...at least on paper. In practice you will be confronted with the following challenges in the early iterations:

1. The external interface is too coarse and far less interesting for internal reuse, than you had thought.
2. The interesting things are residing inside the component. They are, however, well encapsulated and not accessible from the…

'Here in the Spring team, we are currently preparing for a busy next week: We have a three-day team meeting coming up from March 15th to 17th, immediately followed by the SpringSource S2G Forum Munich on Thursday, March 18th (overview, agenda, registration). The S2G Forum series is a new conference concept that we are giving a [...]'…

'In the very near future, SpringSource tc Server 2.0™ will be released including a new Spring Edition, representing some big changes for the product and a big step ahead for web application development. This also continues SpringSource's commitment to tc Server being a 100% compatible drop-in replacement for Apache Tomcat that provides the best place [...]'…

'Cloud Foundry bietet basierende auf Amazon EC2, tc Server und Hyperic eine Cloud-Lösung an. Amazon EC bietet virutelle Rechner an, auf denen mit Cloud Foundry dann Linux mit tc Server, MySQL und Hyperic installiert wird. Man selber muss nur noch ein WAR-File auswählen, das deployt wird. In dem Video wird gezeigt, wie man eine Java-Anwendung mit der SpringSource Tool Suite ganz einfach in Cloud Foundry deployen kann. Test-Accounts gibt es unter http://www.cloudfoundry.com .Das Video ist hier:bzw unter http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mX7tagQbKOI .Viel Spaß…

'With the introduction of the security schema in Spring Security 2, it became much easier to get a simple secured application up and running. In older versions, users had to declare and wire-up all the implementation beans individually, resulting in large and complicated Spring application context files which were difficult to understand and maintain. There [...]'…

'For RSSOwl 2.0.5 Linux and Mac we plan a major update to the framework that is used for the entire user interface of RSSOwl. This framework has aged over the past years and we need to update it to not loose contact with the latest development in the Linux and Mac world. Download 2.0.5 RC1 for: Linux | Linux 64Bit | Mac The visible changes are not very obvious, in general RSSOwl should behave as before. Should you encounter any…

'Unter http://www.jugh.de/JUGH!/Dokumente/Eintrage/2010/2/25_Einfuhrung_in_SpringRoo%2C_Eberhard_Wolff_25.02.2010.html stehen nun die Folien zu meinem Vortrag bei der JUG Hessen bereit - viel Spaß beim Lesen. Neben ROO geht es um Spring Insight und Cloud Foundry. '…

'Wir planen dieses Jahr unser Consulting-Team in Deutschland weiter zu verstärken. Neben Spring geht es dabei auch um tc Sever, Tomcat, Hyperic, Groovy und Grails. Der Job ist sehr abwechselungsreich: Man sieht viele verschiedene Projekte und Einsatzkontexte der Technologien. Inhaltlich beschäftigt man sich mit der Beratung und dem Abhalten von Trainings. Außerdem gibt es Möglichkeiten, sich an unseren verschiedenen Projekten zu beteiligen. Außerdem hat man praktisch freie Wohnortswahl - unsere Organisation ist sowieso verteilt. Allerdings muss man reisebereit sein.SpringSource und…

'A rather short episode of the Grails Podcast, short and sweet. Show Notes

• Yes you CAN use Grails Video by Marc Palmer
• IntelliJ Idea and Grails Screencast
• Installing Grails on Mac OS X
• Using a Codec in a Grails Unit Test
• Fragment and Page Caching with the SpringCache plugin
• Building a Grails project with Gradle and Grails 2.0: Gradle for the win?
• GPars Overview
• Groovy End to End
• Groovy++ Web Console
• GR8 Conference home page

'…

'>матрациtended zTunes to handle VOB video files, and was able to push some tracks from DVD (ripped using DVDShrink) through zTunes to iTunes. Pretty nice, but I had to manually edit the ripped file names since ripping from DVD doesn’t include any metadata. Can anyone recommend a better way to rip from DVD to VOB, where one can more easily edit the track names before the rip so that the files get created with reasonable names? '…

'Another month passed and its time for a new release. RSSOwl 2.0.4 comes with quite some bugfixes and enhancements as you can see from the changelog. Existing users can easily update using the integrated update manager (Help | Check for Updates). There was a slight change in the way feeds are reopened on startup in case you have disabled tabs from the user interface. Please refer to this FAQ entry for more information.Read the full article'…

'Ein neues Feature von Spring 3 ist die Unterstützung von REST. Dieser Architektur-Ansatz für verteilte Systeme nutzt HTTP und die Ansätzes des Webs deutlich anders, als man dies zum Beispiel von Web Services gewohnt ist. Wie man technisch REST-Anwendungen implementiert sollte klar sein - eben mit Spring 3. Aber ist bei diesem Ansatz zu beachten?Genau diesen Bereich deckt Stefan Tilkov mit seinem Buch "REST und HTTP: Einsatz der Architektur des Web für Integrationsszenarien" ab. Es enthält eine ausführliche Darstellung des…

'After two months of incorporating valuable feedback, it is my pleasure to announce the first Spring 3.0 maintenance release – addressing more than 170 reported issues. Get it from our download page. Since quite a few users asked for a dependencies distribution (as an alternative to grabbing dependencies via Maven or Ivy), we are providing a [...]'…

'Wie schon angekündigt findet am 18.3. das S2G Forum in München statt. Noch sind Plätze frei, so dass ich die Gelegenheit nutze, noch mal auf den Event hinzuweisen. Für einen recht geringen Betrag von 94€ gibt es die Möglichkeit, die erste Garde aus den Bereichen Spring und Groovy/Grails zu erleben. In dieser So viele hervorragende Speaker gibt es sont nur selten - dazu zählen verschiedene Projekt-Leads wie Jürgen Höller (Spring), Graeme Rocher (Grails), Guillaume LaForge (Groovy), Mark Fisher (Spring Integration),…

'Die dritte Auflage meines Spring Buchs steht nun vor der Tür - das erste Exemplar durfte ich schon in Händen halten. Das Buch behandelt nun Spring 3.0 und ist darüber hinaus inhaltlich erweitert worden - so gibt es jetzt auch Kapitel zu dm Server, OSGi, JSR 330, JSR 303 und Spring Web Flow 2.0.Die Web Site zum Buch http://spring-buch.de/ ist nun auch komplett überarbeite. Dort finden sich auch die Beispiele zum Download.Wer es gleich bestellen will, hier der Link:bzw.Spring 3:…

'Am 25.2. (Donnerstag) ab 17:00 findet bei der JUG Hessen ein Vortrag von mir über ROO statt und zwar bei:Micromata GmbHMarie-Calm-Straße 1-534131 KasselSiehe dazu https://www.xing.com/events/8-treffen-java-user-group-hessen-jugh-419282. Vielleicht sieht man sich... '…

'There are some common concerns of users of Spring Batch and Spring Integration, and we get asked a lot about how they fit together. Spring Batch Admin 1.0.0.M2 was released recently, and it makes heavy use of Spring Integration, so it is a good vehicle for looking at some specific use cases, and that [...]'…

'Show Notes

• Matthew Taylor's Blog
• Matthew Tayloron Twitter
• Grails 1.2.1 Release Notes
• Getting Started with Grails (second edition)
• My Groovy can beat up your Scala and Groovy vs Scala: We need closure
• YUI Theatre lectures
• YUI Gallery components
• Definitive Guide to Javascript (5th ed)

New Podcast Feed: http://feeds.grailspodcast.com/grailspodcast grailspodcast.com http://feeds.grailspodcast.com/grailspodcast twitter: grailspodcast flickr: grailspodcast '…

'A few weeks ago I gave a talk at the OOP-2010 conference in Munich about the lessons I learned from building business apps on top of OSGi during the past five years. Finally I put the slides online:

• OSGi - Lessons Learned (pdf)

Sorry for the delay!'…

'Doug pointed out yesterday how Eclipse startup performance isn’t great. I asked on his blog entry, wouldn’t it be great if we had something like bootchart — or Michael Meeks‘ work (FOSDEM presentation) — for Eclipse? Would this be a good Eclipse Summer of Code project? '…

'Hier ist ein Spring-Insight-Demo-Video: Oder alternativ führt dieser Link zu dem Video.Spring Insight erlaubt es einem, Spring-Anwendungen recht einfach zu profilen und dann ggf. zu optimieren. Man muss nur die Anwendung auf tc Server Developer Edition deployen und kann dann das Performance-Verhalten analysieren. In der SpringSource Tool Suite (STS) ist tc Server Developer Edition ebenfalls integriert.Viel Spaß mit dem Video! '…

'My friend Adam pointed me to Anatoly Zenkov’s generated graph of his mouse pointer movements during 3 hours using Eclipse: http://www.flickr.com/photos/anatoliy_zenkov/4160723711 The previous photo in his stream has a screenshot of his desktop in the background so you can see what lines up where. It’s more fun to guess, though '…

'Here are the GWT sessions on the upcoming google i/o 2010 to keep an eye on. Google usually publishes the sessions on youtube and uploads the slides to the respective session homepage. Ray Ryan is talking on two session, one of it is called “Architecting GWT applications for production at Google” – maybe it is part two of his last talk on gwt architectures best practices. I surely won’t miss any of those: Architecting for performance with Google Web Toolkit…

'I found this one here in the atlassian forums, unfortunately the link posted there is broken. Hi guys, We are announcing our end of life of Atlassian support for Internet Explorer 6 on JIRA. This will be effective from the launch date of JIRA 4.2 (target Q3, 2010). This means that JIRA 4.1 will be the last version of JIRA to support IE6. (From JIRA 4.0 to JIRA 4.1, all of the main functionality will work in IE 6; however,…

'This year is a great year for web development. We will witness the “end of life” of IE 6. And as far as I got it right from here, IE 7 is being trashed on the same day: 13-Jul-2010 Internet Explorer 7 on Windows XP Professional Service Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP Professional And sincerely: this is good. I just hope companies start upgrading soon, why should we wait until July? I just hope that Google, Amazon, Ebay and others…

'Im aktuellen Java-Magazin ist ein Artikel von mir über den JSR-330-Standard. Mit diesem Standard sind einige Annotationen für Dependency Injection vereinheitlicht worden - leider aber nicht alle. Neben Spring 3.0 gehören zu den Implementierungen beispielsweise auch Guice und der JSR ist auch Teil von Java EE 6. '…

'This time it's Sven talking to John Adelus from iTELL iSEEK, a startup levelling the playing field when it comes to wine reviews. I met John at JavaOne during Glen's book signing and then several more times during JUG meetings in the bay area. We talk mainly about CloudFoundry & Amazon EC2 and how you can push your next Grails app with no effort into the cloud + keep it cheap. We also talk quite a bit about bootstrapping your…

'Today I went through a set of changes the proof reader had made to the book’s preface. I could see his annotations in the document and was seriously wondering what the heck he wanted to tell me. I even went so far as to reply that I thought his changes would make matters worse. Turned out to be quite embarrassing, because apparently Mac OS X’s Preview.app does not do a very good job of displaying'…

'Are you interested in SWT API for the Windows Ribbon Framework? If yes please raise your voice in bug 293637. It looks like the Ribbon can’t be used in the SDK or any other Eclipse project at the moment. However, it’s still unclear if it can be part of the SWT API. '…

'Habs gerade erst gesehen. Aus den “release notes“:

• Standard.css missing new layout styles
• The CurrencyList/CurrencyData APIs are now public

'…

'The book is in its final stages. Right now I am putting the finishing touches to the illustrations and going through the editors’ most recent comments and suggestions. Takes a lot more time than expected, though… '…

' This is a nice little book about the history of mathematics and the 350-year quest for the proof to Fermat’s Last Theorem.  It was written by the fellow who wrote the BBC / Nova TV special on Andrew Wiles, but includes a lot more information than a one-hour show could.  It does a nice job at hitting many of the high points of mathematical development from Pythagoras to modern day, including the “discovery” of zero, then negative numbers, then…

'We’ve recently gone on an “energy efficiency” rampage at the house, replacing bulbs with CFLs, identifying devices that are unnecessarily left on all the time, wrestling with Windows to stay asleep during periods of inactivity, etc.  We also recently just installed a “continuous” or “on demand” hot water heater, replacing the 50G direct-vent tank heater we had (it was getting to the end of its lifetime and it was easier to replace it preemptively.)  Unfortunately, the state requires all newly…

'Feedback is an essential force and of priceless value for many things you do in your daily life. It is one of the central elements of agile software development and it is absolutely priceless to get honest and constructive feedback for the work you do. Sometimes its hard to get this feedback, sometimes not. Some of you might know that I am part of the podcast team at Software Engineering Radio, a podcast for professional software developers that publishes a…

'Dieses Jahr macht SpringSource wieder einen Event in München und zwar das S2G Forum. Wir haben dieses Mal drei Tracks: Einen zu Spring, einen zu Tomcat, Hyperic und Cloud und einen zu Groovy/Grails.In dem Spring-Track werden neben Jürgen Höller (Spring Projekt Lead), Mike Wiesner (Spring Security Guru) und verschiedene Committer wie Keith Donald (Spring Web Flow) und Mark Fisher (Spring Integration) auch ich sprechen. Der zweite Track wird unter anderem Tomcat 7.0 besprechen und einen Einblick in die Strategie rund…

'Show Notes

• Microsoft & Grails
• Groovy-Eclipse 2.0 released - Groovy Plugin for Eclipse
• Hacking Custom Authentication Providers with Grails Spring Security
• Interview with Graeme Rocher
• Generating UML Models from Grails Domain Classes
• Kissing PHP Goodbye for Groovy and Grails
• Grails 1.2 now running on Google's AppEngine using AppEngine Plugin 0.8.8
• Revisiting Groovy AST Transformation with AstBuilder
• Groovy and SnakeYAML
• How Clojure improved my Groovy
• BDD Video 
• Groovy-LAMP
• IntelliJ Idea 9.0.1  - groovy bugfixes
• CodeNarc 0.8 is out - static analysis…

'In my last entry, I walked you through several enhancements in Spring 3 for web application development. A number of you expressed interest in a follow-up entry focused on Ajax remoting. Spring 3 provides a lot in this area to take advantage of. Read on, and I'll walk you through it. Spring and [...]'…

'It is time for another release and RSSOwl 2.0.3 brings some nice new features. The most notable one is the new ability to import feeds from your Google Reader account using the import wizard. Existing users can easily update using the integrated update manager (Help | Check for Updates). Update: I just released a minor update to the 2.0.3 release that fixes a rare issue where some feeds would not display properly. Just in case you wonder why you get…

'I just spent some time on the GWT issue list, nice to see work being completed on the 2.0.1 release. Unfortunately, it looks like week numbers are not going to make it into 2.0.1. Since many issues are already marked “FixedNotReleased” it might be a good option to checkout and build GWT from the source. Unfortunately the standard layout for TabLayoutPanel isn’t marked fixed yet… Here is the issue list for the release 2.0.1 I have been looking at: http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/issues/list?can=2&q=+milestone%3D2_0_1&colspec=ID+Type+Status+Priority+Milestone+Owner+Summary&cells=tiles Some issues are…

'After our mad dash to the final release of Spring Roo 1.0.0 on New Year's Eve, many users have asked for an introductory screencast. In this 5 minute screencast you will see how to: Develop a simple "contact manager application" using the Roo shell Import and edit the project our free IDE, SpringSource Tool Suite (STS) Run the Roo-provided [...]'…

'In my previous post I promised to post follow ups regarding the missing Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) compatible drivers for the HP ScanJet G2410. Today I got a response to my support case, including a download address which I would like to share. On the website you still cannot find the software directly. HP ScanJet G2410 Mac OS X 10.6 driver download page I have not yet tried to install it,'…

'When a few weeks ago my Canon LIDE70 scanner died, I went and looked for a Snow Leopard compatible replacement. I found the HP ScanJet G2410 which is labeled compatible with 10.6. Little did I expect what “compatible” means in HP’s terms. So I went ahead and bought one at a local electronics store. Inside the box there was a leaflet informing me about the software on the CD only being suitable '…

'Some of you might know, Matthias and myself are working on a new kind of presentation tool, called Sessionfire. After a period of private alpha testing we are pretty happy that it has left this period just a few days ago and started its public beta stage. So everybody is invited to grab a copy of it and give it a try. Its not open source (maybe it will be some day in the future), but its free to download…

'As Adrian mentioned, today is the day for dm Server 2.0 and I'm delighted to announce that dm Server 2.0 is now available. Thank you for all of the feedback that we've had during the development of 2.0, it's helped to shape it into what we believe is a big step forward for enterprise OSGi. [...]'…

'Today we will be releasing version 2.0 of the dm server. This represents a major milestone for the project, and for enterprise application development with OSGi in general. I’m delighted to now be able to reveal the next step in the dm Server journey: we have submitted a proposal at Eclipse.org to continue development of [...]'…

'Just a heads up that upcoming RSSOwl 2.0.3 will support importing your subscriptions from Google Reader. This is the first step of synchronization, expect more to come in the future.Read the full article'…

'As promised in yesterday’s entry, I’m releasing my digital media management software (ztunes) to the world.  It’s hosted at github: http://github.com/briangoetz/ztunes.  It is written in Ruby and based on “rake”, the Ruby equivalent of “make”.  It currently has a long way to go but already does a lot.  You can download the Ruby gem here: http://github.com/briangoetz/ztunes/downloads.  (It is not currently in any sort of gem repository.)  It defines its gem dependencies, but you’ll also need the Unix tools ffmpeg, flac,…

'This is out first episode of the Grails Podcast in 2010 - Happy (belated) New Year to everyone! Special thanx to G2iX, a great company which continues to host our little Grails Application on their cloud. We love you guys, hosting is easy and pain free!Show Notes

• Groovy 1.7 released
• Grails 1.2 released
• Significant Software Developments 2009 - Javaworld Article
• Spy plugin released
• Gaelyk interview with Andy Glover
• Upgrading Grails 1.1.1 to 1.2 blog post
• Using GMock to…

'Since I’ve been working way too hard, of course I decided to spend my XMas break…programming.  (http://www.answers.com/topic/busman-s-holiday).  I had two goals: rewrite my digital-media handling software, and learn Ruby.  I’m pretty happy with what I accomplished on both counts. The motivation to rewrite my digital-media scripts came from having too many conversations like the one below with Stuart Marks: SM: Hey, you wrote a bunch of scripts to manage audio and video files, are you willing to share them?BG: Well,…

'Thanks to Rene for his hard work on providing Ubuntu and Debian repositories for RSSOwl 2.0.2 (32 and 64 Bit). Point your browser to http://packages.rssowl.org. For more information about the installation please see the README file. Read the full article'…

'Continuing the Spring 3.0 "simplification series" started by Keith and Chris, I would like to provide a quick overview of simplifications in scheduling and task execution enabled by Spring 3.0. I will be walking through a basic sample application that you can checkout from the spring-samples Subversion repository. It has been designed to be as simple [...]'…

'Others have done it, so why shouldn’t I do it, too? Well, usually that’s not my line of thought, but when today I read David Linsin's blog post about his stats I thought I might follow along. Overall stats The overall visits to my blog – and countless others with no doubt – display the workday/weekend jagged line one would expect. The summer months seem to be a little lower on average, but that'…

'Following our one month schedule for maintenance releases, RSSOwl 2.0.2 is now available with 30 bugfixes and enhancements. Existing users can easily update using the integrated update manager (Help | Check for Updates).Read the full article'…

'If you have ever wondered (as I have years ago) why the text rendering on Linux usually looks inferior to both Mac OS X and Windows text, no matter how much you try and tweak the settings, there is a great and very in-depth article at http://www.antigrain.com/research/font_rasterization/index.html. It is quite long, but it contains excellent background information, theoretical and practical '…

'If you look at my EclipseCon 2010 submissions:

• 1443 Declarative UI sucks? Create your own!
• 1480 Extensible EMF Switches
• 1483 Annoyed by all those similar looking interfaces: IMemento, IConfigurationElement, IPreferenceStore, IDialogSettings, ILaunchConfiguration...
• 1484 JFace/SWT Tables turned upside down

It seems that I am contradicting myself, because in 1443 I propose to create your own (copy) of a declarative UI and in 1483 I whine about all those similar looking interfaces. How does this go together? Well, in the case of all…

'I just came about this Star Wars – The Phantom Menace Review on Daring Fireball. Yes, the movie has been out for years, so why a review? Well, go see for yourself (it is 7x10 minutes long!). Be aware that if you loved it (who would?) you might be offended by the heresy against George Lucas’ creation, but I for one mostly agree with it. You might have to get used to the guy’s voice, but the '…

'In one week, on December 24th, it will be exactly one year since I was first contacted by Packt Publishing. After reading several posts from this blog they asked me if I’d be interested in writing a MySQL administration cookbook with hands-on recipes for those among us who have to make sure the MySQL servers are kept running and in good shape. Funny thing, I almost deleted their email, because '…

'Let's hear a bit what our listeners want to achieve 2010 with regards to Groovy/Grails/Griffon. Have a good one! poll by twiigs.com '…

'Thanks to Oliver for this awesome cartoon. Source: http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/geekandpoke/2009/12/from-hype-to-hype.html '…

'Erster Platz Ich möchte Ursula Lohrey für den ersten Platz in dem Plakatwettbewerb GOTT IST ALT… ABER VIEL BESCHÄFTIGT! Plakatwettbewerb zum Thema „Generation 50+ und Arbeit“ gratulieren. Lohrey habe ich unter anderem mein Logo zu verdanken. Der regionale Beschäftigungspakt fünfzigPLUSarbeit rief zu einem Plakat-Wettbewerb zum Thema Arbeit und Alter auf. Der KulturPackt führte dabei die Ausschreibung durch und organisierte die Jurierung. Zur Beteiligung aufgerufen waren Grafiker, Zeichner, Maler, Fotografen, Bildhauer und Objektkünstler. Zu dem schwierig umzusetzenden Thema bewarben sich 19…

'There are things that must not get lost in time. Best thing to do is backup. So here is my backup:

• DOS Airlines Everybody pushes the airplane until it glides, then they jump on and let the plane coast until it hits the ground again, then they push again jump on again, and so on.
• OS/2 Airlines The terminal is almost empty, with only a few prospective passengers milling about. The announcer says that their flight has just departed,…

'There are things that must not get lost in time. Best thing to do is backup. So here is my backup:

• PL/1 Mainframe Air: You arrive at the airport. It’s not really an airport, but actually an old wooden building next to the river. You ask why there isn’t a real airport. A very old man answers you that they have been building with wood ever since the beginning of construction, so it must be good. You ask where…

'Yesterday I read a tweet that deserved more than a simple RT:

• Asshole Driven development (ADD) – Any team where the biggest jerk makes all the big decisions is asshole driven development. All wisdom, logic or process goes out the window when Mr. Asshole is in the room, doing whatever idiotic, selfish thing he thinks is best. There may rules and processes, but Mr. A breaks them and people follow anyway.
• Cognitive Dissonance development (CDD) – In any organization…

'Bisher kannte ich folgende “Management-By”-Arten:

• Management by Babysitter Man kümmert sich um die Angelegenheit, wo jemand am lautesten schreit.
• Management by Champignon Die Mitarbeiter im Dunkeln lassen, gelegentlich mit Mist bestreuen; und wenn sich ein heller Kopf zeigt: abschneiden!
• Management by Moses Er führte sein Volk in die Wüste und hoffte auf ein Wunder.
• Management by Alphüttli Hoch oben angesiedelt, aber furchtbar primitiv eingerichtet.
• Management by Jeans An den wichtigsten Stellen sitzen die größten Nieten.
• Management by Ping-Pong Jeden…

'While preparing a talk on module systems and architectures I remembered some old talks I listened to talking about architectures and arguing why an explicit software architect is necessary within professional projects. Many of them used the analogy of building a dog-house versus building a cathedral. For a small dog house, you don't need an architecture. But for the cathedral you do. Hm, agree, but where is the point?I think the world has changed. Today for most software systems the…

'Last friday I was invited to give a talk at the Meet-the-Experts event in Solingen. I talked about my view on architectures in an agile world and how module systems drive those architectures for a flexible future. Here are the slides:

• How Module Systems Drive Architectures (pdf)

Enjoy!'…

'Show Notes

• Grails 1.2 RC1 release notes
• Programmatically Scheduling Jobs in Grails
• Mr Haki's Mocking Configuration objects in Unit Tests
• The Dyn Solutions blog have launched grailscertification.com
• Log into your Grails app using your Twitter credentials
• GPars 0.9 Beta 1 released with a snazzy User Guide
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