As you might have guessed, I am into photography. At last a bit. I love taking pictures because of many reasons. One of them is the ability…

Another JavaONE followup. After I blogged about what's going to happen with Java EE , it is time to recall what was said by Chief Archit…

The JavaONE announcements about upcoming Java EE versions were anything but exciting. Nothing too concrete and nothing comparable to a road…

A few days after being back in Germany I finally found the time to do a review about this years mega Oracle and Java event which happened f…

I am at SFO and enjoying the 45min free wifi. Great service. Still some time left until boarding. Time to do a WrapUp posting. It was nice …

The last real JavaOne/OpenWorld/OracleDevelop day for me. And it was completely busy. Meeting people. All over the day. Appointments. It wa…

Sleept longer today. Seems as if I get adjusted to the new timezone. Right in time for the flight back, which is'nt that far away. Grea…

Being here for already five days, this was the first real conference day. And, to be honest, I am dead beaten after the last few days. So t…

Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud is the world's first and only integrated middleware machine—a combined hardware and software stack optimi…

Wow. Up after 6 hours of sleep again. Seems as if I have to catch up on sleep back in Germany. This is really tough. Anyway, it's worth…

The wifi at the hilton is expensive (if you can not use the free oracle wifi beeing up in the towers) and therefore here is the post about …

Second day in the states. Awake, as usual around 4 am. Not too comfortable. But this will get better over time. Today we had the second day…

Today was the first part of the annual ACE Director briefing at Oracle. An event that I was waiting for since some time now. The following …

Ok. I finally managed to get here. Starting around 4pm in MUC I arrived at SFO 7:00pm local time after a short and entertaining 12h flight …

You have probably already seen the great Java One page , refering to the outstanding developers who are passionate about Java technology and…

As always, the simple things in live make everything complicated. A co-worker came up with this and I would like to answer the question and…

It's here! The new magazin (Java Aktuell) from the german iJUG (Interessenverbund der Java User Groups e.V.). The iJUG was foundet righ…

Short notice: If you like to meet me and the following speakers: Ralph Soika (IMIXS GmbH), Michael Bräuer (Oracle), Frank Schwarz (buschmai…

You know, that I am "playing" around with the iPad recently. One part of the game is to look for suitable UI frameworks that assi…