In the last edition of the German Java-Magazin was an ad about creating big, flexible architectures with OSGi. I'm one of the experts providing Eclipse/OSGi training. Let me know if you are interested.…

After I've listened to the latest episode about Google Gadgets from the Googles Developer Podcast this morning, I've decided to create my own mashup Gadget: The VRS-Info Gadget is actually just the PDA-Version of the…

I will be speaking at the Froscon, a small but neat conference on Free Software and Open Source. It will take place at my university near Bonn in august. My talk will be about Spring-OSGi.…

Flickr is censoring pictures in Germany. I've got an US account but this action from Yahoo is absolutely not acceptable. So right now I am testing Ipernity and 23hq. If you have any suggestions please…

Why does anybody think that Maven is the holy grail? These days wherever you go you find these installations instructions: "Just grab the source and enter mvn install". Guess what: most of the…