Eclipse Ganymede and Subversion (Subclipse)


Picture:Clock Published on August 28th, 2008 in General

Eclipse Ganymede is the new Eclipse distribution which is supposed to facilitate the dependency-hell problem many eclipse users face. Don’t get me wrong here, it’s fine release with numerous improvements, but they’ve totally failed with integrating a Subversion client like Subclipse or Subversive.
To solve this problem, simply add the following update site for the Subclipse [...]

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Benchmark: mod_rails vs. Mongrel


Picture:Clock Published on April 23rd, 2008 in General

A guy nicknamed “s2″ benchmarked mod_rails against Mongrel. It’s not really scientific, but shows that at least for small sites, mod_rails definitely is a good and easier to setup alternative. I’m planning to do my own benchmarking soon on my shiny, new SUN Ultra 24 Workstation that comes with great Ruby & Rails support out [...]

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Breaking the silence


Picture:Clock Published on March 11th, 2008 in General

It’s been quite a while since my last post. Ok, I admit it, I even haven’t found the time to post this year so far. There’s a lot of stuff going on that I would like to share. I’ve been digging into Java, Rails and OpenSolaris (incl. ZFS). I’m planning to post in great detail [...]

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Looking for Sponsors


Picture:Clock Published on April 10th, 2007 in General

Due to increasing hosting costs, I’m looking for a few sponsors willing to place a text link onto this blog. Your text link will appear on the sidebar of every post above Google’s Ads, so it really is the best spot to place an advertisement. Yet another Tech Blog is a PR4 site and has [...]

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How to synchronize the Nokia N73 with iSync


Picture:Clock Published on February 26th, 2007 in General

So I have recently bought myself a new cell phone, more precisely the N73 by Nokia. It’s been quite a while since I have bought my last Nokia handset, I started to hate their new designs, firmwares and other stuff. But I have to admit, I quickly fell in love with the N73. It has [...]

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Open source VMWare work-a-like


Picture:Clock Published on January 22nd, 2007 in General

The model of open-source software really seems to catch up. German developer InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH, decided to release its powerful virtualization software as open source. Virtual Box is a worthy contender to VMWare Workstation. It offers the same features, more or less, although they’re implementation might be a bit buggy at the moment, like the [...]

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The new year


Picture:Clock Published on January 10th, 2007 in General

Hi everyone and a happy new year. Yes, I know, the new year’s already a couple of days old and I haven’t written a new post for quite some time now. I know and I’m sorry! I was really busy the last couple of months, but I’m planning to post on a frequent basis again [...]

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DbVisualizer Error


Picture:Clock Published on October 29th, 2006 in General

I downloaded Minq Software’s great DbVisualizer to do some stuff with a MySQL database. I configured the MySQL database driver properly, but DbVisualizer wouldn’t connect to the database with the following error: “Unknown initial character set”. Taking a look at MySQL’s configuration file (located at MySQL/bin/my.cnf), showed that the “character-set-server” property was using latin1 as [...]

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From your Big Idea to your own Company


Picture:Clock Published on September 15th, 2006 in General

Business 2.0 has done it once again. They managed to compress the utterly complex process of creating your own start-up into an understandable, cute graphic. It kinda reminds me of Monopoly and some other board games. You can get the whole, step-by-step guide on how to start your own company as PDF here. Every step [...]

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Calling the helpdesk…


Picture:Clock Published on July 18th, 2006 in Fun, General

This is just so true: “Foamy the Squirrel” just wrecked his Windows installation. Now he’s calling tech support just to find out it was outsourced to India and they can’t help him no matter how hard they try.
A funny look at the outsourcing trend in IT. I wish some big company executives could see this.

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