Ever wondered why Eclipse (or any Java app) is still pointing to your old Windows profile (eg. after renaming or copying it)? It’s a known JRE bug. They use a Windows registry entry for setting the user.home property.

I just had that upps effect with RSSOwl. All my blogs were gone after removing the old profile dir which I haven’t used for months (I moved out of a Windows domain severel weeks ago).

I found the following in my inbox today.

A young executive was leaving the office at 6pm when he found the CEO standing in front of a shredder with a piece of paper in his hand. “Listen,” said the CEO, “this is important, and my secretary has left. Can you make this thing work?” “Certainly,” said the young executive. She turned the machine on, inserted the paper, and pressed the start button. “Excellent, excellent!” said the CEO as his paper disappeared inside the shredder. “I just need one copy.”

I can’t help but I do have a strong picture in my head.

Who else read RFC 124? It has a really funny title: “A Component Model for OSGi”. Yeah, that really speaks for itself. Just repeat it a few times and let it settle for a while. So, RFC 124 wants to create a component model for a component model. Funny, eh?

But is that really what people need? Maybe I just don’t get it but I thought the real problem was that programming OSGi is too verbose.

Well, I’m certainly not arguing against that. Programming OSGi is verbose. When creating services you need to write additional code to maintain their registrations. When consuming services you need to write additional code to track available services. Last but not least you need some plumbing around. Read the rest of this entry »

I previously blogged about this. It wasn’t possible to select EPL as your project license when hosting your project at Google Code. Yes, no typo … it wasn’t.

They changed their mind. Hooray!

Yay! Ralph Mueller is in town so it’s time for a Stammtisch! Some weeks ago, I invited Ralph to Jena - the eCommerce captial of Germany.

Monday, July 14th @ 7pm

Cafe Stilbruch, Wagnergasse
(Google Maps)

Ralph will have a talk about the Eclipse Foundation and Open Source in general. I also invited him to get to know the TowerByte e.G. TowerByte is a consortium of 22 companies here at Jena all working together in the Jena Tower doing some crazy cool stuff with programming.

The talk will be in the 29th floor of the Jena Tower at 4pm. After that there will be time for a nice Q&A session. The Stammstisch is scheduled for 7pm at the Cafe Stilbruch.