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 :-( [...]

Rooting of the Samsung Galaxy – use sudo on ubuntu…

[update] I succeeded to install the new recovery image. fastboot only recognozes the phone when the phone is in fastboot and you have to (or i had to) be root! [old Text] I am trying to root my samsung galaxy. I tried to follow http://www.nodch.de/howto-root-samsung-galaxy-mit-ubuntu/1138 (german blog). I have tried this on Ubunu 9.10 32Bit [...]

Added next spambot protection plugin…

The problem with automatic user registrations is really annoying. So I added a small plugin that forces you to solve a captcha and a small math test (just something like “What is 3*6+7?”) Sorry for the inconvinience.

Linux multimonitor and different workspaces

I just retired my old desktop pc and decided to use the free monitor to do “dual monitoring” with my laptop (again). While it’s really nice how you can arrange and use the second monitor, it’s not as good as I’d like it to be. ;-) Wouldn’t it be nice to have the choice to [...]

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 [...]

Removed Spamusers

Recently suspicious usernames appeared in my new user folder. Now I had the time to delete them. If I have deleted your account and you are not a bot or spammer, I apologise. Please register again and tell me as comment to this blog post. As I am switching jobs to a job much closer [...]

Microblogging – Alternatives to twitter whales

Microblogging is “en vogue” now. Twitter started to attract many many users and has a big variety in tools around it. But twitter suffers from the exponential growth. Whale sightings (site outages are displayed as a whale on the site) are a common problem and features get disabled like the jabber interface. So the people [...]

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 [...]

My favorite non-coding web-/podcasts

I’d like to present my favourite podcasts (audio+video), because many people still got no grip at the whole podcast stuff, so maybe the like some of the casts I view/hear. I am splitting the list in two blogposts, because I’d like to handle the development related casts in a seperate posting.