IT conservations

Finally I found a Thunderbird extension that allows me to select the Fcc folder on the compose/reply panel. Not only can you control which ...

With SOA and/or the concept of composite applications we will see an increase in ready-to-use business-services as well as technical-servic...

wikiCalc (by softwaregarden ) is a cool AJAX application that combines the "public" or rather collaborative editing approach of a...

well since everyone talks about AJAX all the time, I might as well do so, too. Here's a good resource (hub) for it: ajaxian

In the world of SOA, webservices and (generally) loosely coupling systems and applications, monitoring gets a new quality. And I really me...

First of all, I don't think there is a real "vs." there, but anyway, its a catchy title. Look here at what Tim actually has t...

In a recent discussion a customer (or rather: a prospect) said that a certain price for a given piece of software was to high for him, becau...

From a recent discussion with former colleagues of mine: What are the consequential costs of a bad architecture, a wrong decision, a bad des...

Had a conversation with a customer recently on AJAX . Without telling me what the had AJAX in mind for, they wanted to know whether AJAX wou...

A very cool extension for Firefox : view all tabs at once in the browser window... check out foXpose here.

excellent information and thoughts on XML can be found here . And it's by someone who really knows what he's talking about ... Tim B...

Looking for ways to ftp (put) files in Java, I found the hidden sun.net.ftp classes which come with the jdk anyway. Thanks to a javaworld ar...

To not only do palm bashing , I'd just like to say that the WiFi integration in the T|X is a lot (really "a lot") better then ...

The folks at Sun created a nice little helper class called SwingWorker. It was designed to help with the pain with Swing and working in th...

As christoph chorherr reports in his blog : in Vienna the governing social democrats just signed a working paper with the greens for 33 proj...

I know that Palm (palmOne for a short time) did have a bad reputation when I came to service (and quality). I, however, never suffered from ...

A couple of days ago I finally discovered that Firefox has an RSS/Atom feed "reader" feature called Live Bookmarks. (At least in ...

Now Google Earth is supposed to allow vCards do be dropped onto it and then jump to the location/address given in the vCard. It just doesn...

While migrating a little thunderbird extension to 1.5 I decided to use the new preferences system introduced by FF/TB 1.5, which is quite g...

So I finally decided to do a blog on my thoughts on IT, opensource, mobile, web, etc. My programming/hacking experiences and pitfalls, etc. ...