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The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 100,000 times in 2011. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 4 days for that many people to see [...]

I had the possibility to join an amazing group of people to deliver talks at EclipseDay at the Googleplex. I have to admit it feels extremly cool getting to the google campus. Thanks to Lars Vogel accepting me as a co-speaker and the Eclipse Foundation and Google Open Source Program Office organizing the event. I [...]

If you plan to submit a proposal for EclipseCon Europe 2011 you should consider doing it today so that you are can get part of the Early Bird Selection. I’m part of the Program Committe this year and so I’m looking forward to your proposals.

I’ve been hunting a deadlock in an application of a customer we support with our RCP, EMF and OSGi know-how and turned out be a class-loader problem because Hibernate uses Class.forName(). The application is a pure OSGi-Application acting as an Application Server which is used to process database informations in an asynchronous fashion and heavily [...]

I’ve blogged a long time ago about my problems with Subversion + Certificates and Java with a version higher than u17. Today the author of SVNKit added a comment to the ticket talking about the problem. The solution is so simple once you know about the following resource. All you need to do is to [...]

At the end of the year it’s always good to look back on what has happened the whole year and sometimes you get suprised because your current impression on things you did doesn’t really match with the one you really did when digging into code-repositories, mailing lists, bugzillas and such. My Eureka moment was when [...]