Soul Power

I’ve just been calming down a little after almost two weeks of travelling conferences. Right after W-JAX one week ago in Munich, some colleagues and me took a trip to Antwerp to visit Devoxx 2009. I was supposed to give a talk on Hades on Monday what aligned perfectly to the factthat we released version [...]

Right now I’m sitting in the train back home from Düsseldorf to Mannheim. It’s been two exciting days at the GearConf, a conference centered around software development in teams. Thus the spectrum of talks ranged from rather process oriented ones to tool oriented ones.
Thursday began with a talk on whether a dayly release is really [...]

The first two days are over, time to wrap up the first half of it. The actual conference started on Tuesday but the day before there was a Hackathon on alternative languages on the JVM. But let me start from scratch.
My flight to the states was actually quite nice although it took me almost 24h [...]

2 more days and I will make my way to Crested Butte, CO to join this year’s Java Posse Roundup. Not having attended an “Uncoference” before I really look forward to this style of conference as the concept sounds promising. The week will be packed with geek activities but also leave room for leisure as [...]

As i twittered a few days ago, I stumbled over a subtle issue in the core Java library. Not as extreme as here but one to raise ones eyebrows, too.
I just wanted to write a small method to access an enum value by its String representation or use a default, if the conversion fails:
public static [...]

A few minutes ago I once again stumbled on the strange fact, that every now and then I unconciously apply development concepts to my everyday life or at least detect concepts or violations of ‘em. Just now, we decided to order lunch at the chinese restaurant round the corner. Rummaging through the restaurants brochure, guess [...]