Archive for the 'Development' Category

google app engine for Java ready for production? I don’t think so…

I am trying to build an application on the google app engine and I am trying to implement a recursive data structure (pages that itself can have pages as children) I used JDO as it seems to be the most advanced ORM mapper for the google app engine. But JDO refuses to save the entity. [...]

Google chrome API still lacks important features :-(

Today I’ll received chrome 5 via the beta channel and it’s strange that chrome still lacks certain features that are necessary to keep up with firefox… I’m a regular user of delicious and rss feeds that are used in the bookmark folder as “live bookmarks”. This is still not possible in the current API :-( [...]

Bad examples of commit messages

As we all should know by now, VCSs (version control systems) are pretty useful. Not only that you can use it to share and edit files with a group of people, you also have a history which lets you follow changes to your files. For this you need to commit to the repository. For each [...]

Collection of development related podcasts

So, additionally to the “not development related” podcasts, I’d like to present my podcast list that deals with my favourite topic: Software development OnSoftware (Video + Audio) http://www.informit.com/podcasts/index_rss.aspx?c=7 OnSoftware is one channel of InformIT. The casts are audio and video and deal with topics from Refactoring to trends in software development. I like the interviews with [...]

Eclipse Day at the Googleplex: Mylyn simplifies development

I’m a big fan of educational content that is related to software development. So I’ll post here some videos, podcasts or just links. Maybe someone finds them useful and/or gets educated on a certain topic. Todays topic is Mylyn and it’s integration in the Eclipse IDE. Bjorn Freeman-Benson explains the basic of Mylyn from a [...]

IT Conversations: Steve Yegge – How to Ignore Marketing and Become Irrelevant in Two Easy Steps

Pretty interesting podcast! Steve is talking about brands and what you have to keep in mind when you try to establish one. He also has some nice examples of brands that did not very well to show you how it shouldn’t be done. Check this out: IT Conversations | O’Reilly Media Open Source Conference | [...]