Reality-Loop

  • May 09, 2009

    History of programming languages

    Exceptionally funny: A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages My favorite: 1842 - Ada Lovelace writes the first program. She is hampered in her efforts by the minor inconvenience that she doesn't have any actua...

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  • May 08, 2009

    JAXB Quicktip: XMLGregorianCalendar

    Assume you have the following type-declaration in your XSD: <xs:simpleType name="dateType"> <xs:annotation> <xs:documentation>Date without Timezone with the following format: YYYY-MM-DD</xs:documentation> ...

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  • May 06, 2009

    Dig your own hole ...

    Programming is the opposite of diamond mining. -- Charles Simonyi, SET 2009 In diamond mining you remove a lot of dirt to get to the diamond. In programming you start with a clear intent, then you bury it within a lot of co...

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  • April 15, 2009

    Moving into the cloud, loosing your freedom?

    I am a fan of the recent cloud computing hype. I have my own attempts to merge into the cloud. I am also a fan of opensource software, of which the FSF and GPL are important proponents. Google, Facebook, Twitter and friends, with all their f...

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  • April 13, 2009

    Google App Engine: Guestbook with Groovy Groovlets

    The web is soaring, since Google announced Java support on Google App Engine! People are getting ahead of themselves to try out their favorite piece of the Java ecosystem on the Google platform. I figured that I also wanted to experience thi...

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