The second part of my German article series on heise.de/developer went online today. A little bit late as I hoped it to see yesterday already, but I know the reasons and if you are reading this: Keeping my fingers cross for you! The second part is about fo…
Continue ReadingJava 7 was released yesterday and some guys from the Apache Lucene & Apache Solr community quickly came up with a couple of issues which lead them to the point where they are actively rejecting Java 7 and advice anybody else to to likewise. Even a genera…
Continue ReadingWhat a day. All started roughly two hours ago. Don't know, if it was Mark Reinhold or Henrik Ståhl or Terrence Barr or even the Oracle press release . But no matter who was the first to push the news: Java 7 is now GA. The last build 147 was the only r…
Continue ReadingOSCON 2011 is going on at the moment. One of the conferences I would have loved to visit. This did not work out this year, but today I stumbled upon a video of Steven G. Harris Java Keynote there. The title is a theme we had back in the days of the beginning…
Continue ReadingWe all do software development for a living. And we most often hit the day where we have our latest project up and running and the first customers using it. Not a big surprise, that something goes wrong. Has never been tested or is slow in general. The best p…
Continue ReadingAnd it is rapidly approaching. 106,560 minutes or 1776 hours or rounded 10 weeks until the industry meets again in San Francisco! If you were waiting for the content catalog , it is finally there, too. With over 400 Sessions in 8 tracks this will be a huge e…
Continue ReadingHave you seen the JBoss AS7 being released yesterday? Nice work! My congratulations to the whole team! Looking forward to the full Java EE 6 profile. There is one thing I am jealous about: They have those fancy wallpapers up in different resolutions. And to m…
Continue ReadingWow. What a day. The Java 7 launch event generated a lot of buzz around Java again. Finally. Java is breathing again and we all enjoyed it, right? But the main Java event is still going to happen. And it's web-pages have been updated, too :) This will be …
Continue ReadingIt would have been awesome :) 7/7/7 or something similar. But even if I believe, that the Oracle marketing guys fought until the last minute against M.Reinhold and A.Messinger they obviously lost. The final GA date for Java SE 7 is and will be the 7/28/11. Bu…
Continue ReadingA short information for my German readers. A new article series of mine started at heise developer channel. This is all about Java 7 and it's new features. Some might think, this is a good timing :) it is :) Read through it: It's free and available o…
Continue ReadingIt's conference season. At last to me it seems like this, reading through my own blog or even looking at the Aquarium or over to Arun's Miles to Go blog. So many stuff to see and learn. Coming back from the recent KScope 11 conference in Long Beach I …
Continue ReadingI made it back to Germany. After the outbound flight took about 12,5 hours the inbound one was shorter with 11,5 h. Both not very comfortable time frames to be on a plane in general. But this is the price to pay if you are attending conferences on the west co…
Continue ReadingDon't get me wrong: I love the new Duke Screen Saver and I really don't want to break Java's new marketing campaign, But I still don't get how to find the URL of the download pages if you are already following @Java and I<3Java . Back in m…
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