IT conservations

All my release versions of my Android apps are obfuscated with Proguard - which us quite usual. However, it is a bad idea in some circumstan...

While I was trying to implement (or rather suppoer) Dark/Light mode in one of my android apps, I needed to debug the view hierarchy , and th...

Yeah, not really news, but just fell into one of those traps, where you not only forget/fail to fully read the documentation, but also fall ...

 I've already shown how to create a year-month function in DB2, which - when it comes to date arithmatic - is quite straightforward, be...

So, as you noticed, I did not really blog a lot this year, i.e. 2015. Let me quickly recap what I was busy with in the last couple of mont...

So for various reasons (mainly the 64bit v 32bit problem with the native driver) I changed my DB2 JDBC driver to type 4, i.e. the Universal...

One thing that has annoyed me, since Sun started this, was that the Java Installer / Updater would not only have crapware like the Ask Tool...

While migrating some of my work stuff from my old WinXP laptop (ThinkPad T500... good old machine) to my new Windows 7 T430 (also fine iron...

Oh, yes, faux singletons... haven't we all had them. via Geek&Poke

Well, this kind of sort of in a way was to be expected. James Gosling left Sun Oracle, as he reported here .

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Qando is an excellent service for quering up to date (and realtime) information about the (mainly) Viennese public transport. I used to kno...

On Thursday we [1] hosted Austria's first major Java Developer conference [2] in St. Pölten on the FH campus - as I already reported . ...

I ran into this problem at least twice, so here is the solution (at least for my own reference in the future): If you want to use a DB2 (UDB...

Finally, Sun talks Java again in Austria. [1] On June 19th there will be a one day Java Conference called JavaDeus[2] in St. Pölten. Free ad...

Joel Spolsky has an excellent explanation on why you'd want closures ... without using the term "closure" at all. Can Your Pr...

The following fine print in the JSTL fmt:formatDate documentation just cost me about 45 minutes of my life: If this action fails to determin...

and I installed it a couple of days ago. Migration from 5.5 is pretty smooth (I only had to add the JAX-RPC WS plugin), and all projects com...

I just noticed that Glassfish (the Sun lead open-source JavaEE Application Server) has its first book. Java EE Development Using Glassfish A...

Boy, I thought I misread all the recent posts about James Gosling (godfather of Java , i.e. God and father of Java) declaring Java ME dead....