withered walls
Withered walls. Some more peculiar post-industrial points of view. Mirrored on Flickr.
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Soundtrack: Halgrath – “Twilight Mist Feelings” www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUAQAuehMKk Shooting with the Android apps (most notably Vignette) made me want to play a bit with less heavily processed...
View ArticleSAP MaxDB with Python
By now it should be known we’re notorious users of SAP MaxDB in a “non-SAP environment”, and, for that matter, we have done rather well throughout the last seven years. By now, we gained quite some...
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Prototyping think project! SOAP clients with Jython
Though I mostly use (server-sided) Java technology in my day-to-day work, I am then and now intrigued by Python as a straightforward, accessible scripting language which is easy to learn, easy to teach...
View ArticleKDE, Kubuntu, and a bit of rant.
So much for that. Again. A while ago and in quite a verbose way I announced my move to KDE 4.x, specifically in the Kubuntu 13.04 distribution which I adopted in early alpha, as most of the time....
View Articleconcrete flowers
Soundtrack: Sava Marinkovic – “Argemone” (the full album, highly recommended, can be found at acustronica). Inspired by the perception of flowers, blossoms, trees making their ways through urban...
View ArticleYahoo! – Tumblr, Flickr and then some… ?
If you think Facebooks acquisition of Instagram involved an incredibly large amount of money, think again: As of yesterday, Yahoo! has announced to acquire Tumblr for an amount of money even larger....
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Soundtrack: Bartois – “Blossom” – exploring an abandoned entertainment park, discovering a quiet place right in front of a stage (abandoned, too, of course). There’s a certain quietness in such places…
View Articlewrap-up: neo4j meetup, Dresden, 2013-06-25
I’ve been for quite a while into what they use to call “NoSQL databases” these days, even while we still heavily rely upon infrastructure which is anything else than NoSQL – not a bad thing, overally,...
View ArticleAltaVista: Mountain nightfall…
As of today, altavista.com has been officially shut down and is just another redirect to your “local” Yahoo! starting page. Who cares? Not many. Which possibly is one of the problems, considering...
View Articleelementary OS “Luna”: Linux UI, revisited?
After making it through the usual social media channels for quite a while now, elementary OS 0.2 “Luna” has been released a couple of days ago. There is an in-depth article on that on the elementary OS...
View Articleempty streets
Searching for silence in things. Lying down on a cool morning road feeling the city waking up. Few hours from now this place will be hopelessly crowded, with this hours quietness hiding somewhere...
View ArticleRebuild.
Just wanted to post a couple of lines on the current state of this blog. And I want to keep it short, as good as I can. First post on here dates back to September 30, 2005. Eight years on the wordpress...
View Articlereboot
Well not reboot, in a literal understanding. But also not a “relaunch” as changes that happened here are as superficial as a theme switch can eventually be. Maybe this, however, will make this page end...
View Articlelink / leaves
Soundtrack: Tetarise – ‘wide contemplation’, particularly ‘Reminiscenses (Chillout Mix)’. Netlabel ambient for the win. In some ways, back to a (visual) theme I then and now enjoyed playing with, and...
View ArticleProfiling OSGi applications using VisualVM
Recently been into working with OSGi modules built on top of Apache Felix using the Eclipse bndtools. This ain’t fun all the time, but it works. However, I am then and now using visualvm for profiling...
View Articleunirest: cross-platform REST client.
Stumbled across unirest last nite while ultimately feeling a bit unhappy with Java EE / JAX-RS frameworks. These folks in some way got my mind re-sorted a bit. I am still playing with this, yet there...
View ArticleJetty, Micro Services and re-shaping things.
Last week, the Java part of our system went productive after a major runtime update – and it did so not on top of the Glassfish application server we’ve been using so far but rather re-structured into...
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