http://www.karstenvoges.de/blog/ Hi, I'm Karsten Voges and here you will find my thoughts about Java, travelling, clubbing, books, music, etc. en-us 2008-09-02T16:07:18+01:00 http://www.karstenvoges.de/blog/archives/2008/09/02/started_to_bleeper_opensource_twitter.html Just a couple of days ago I started to bleeper. This is the German version of identi.ca which is an OpenSource based Twitter service. The great thing about the OpenSource Software is that you can open up your own server... Karsten 2008-09-02T16:07:18+01:00 http://www.karstenvoges.de/blog/archives/2008/03/04/first_opensource_enterprise_architecture_management_tool_iteraplan.html We just released the first open source EAM tool called iteraplan. Enterprise architecture management creates transparency about your current and future IT landscape and provides instruments for the analysis, creation, planning and control of the application landscape. The enterprise architecture... Java/J2EE Karsten 2008-03-04T12:50:38+01:00 http://www.karstenvoges.de/blog/archives/2008/01/03/software_to_build_open_source_communities.html I wonder why there is no real "community" software out there for open source software projects, especially if you want to have an integrated experience for a user. If you look at big open source projects you have a diverse... Java/J2EE Karsten 2008-01-03T16:40:25+01:00 http://www.karstenvoges.de/blog/archives/2007/12/13/javapolis2007_ejb_31.html Secification lead Kenneth Saks was updating the JavaPolians about the status and the news of EJB 3.1. So the focus of this JSR is on two themes, one is to improve on the ease of use, which was already the... Java/J2EE Karsten 2007-12-13T13:17:58+01:00 http://www.karstenvoges.de/blog/archives/2007/12/11/javapolis2007_thinking_in_flex.html So after JSF got a bit boring, I went to look around at the other talks and finally stayed at thinking in Flex, which was again a presentation by two presenters, but this time Bruce Eckel and James Ward played... Java/J2EE Karsten 2007-12-11T22:27:15+01:00 http://www.karstenvoges.de/blog/archives/2007/12/11/javapolis2007_be_productive_with_jsf.html Again a talk of two presenters - Ed Burns and Yara Senger. Like in tennis a double is more difficult to play than a single and although both are good and experienced presenters the talk had some hiccups. What I... Java/J2EE Karsten 2007-12-11T16:33:31+01:00 http://www.karstenvoges.de/blog/archives/2007/12/10/javapolis2007_day_1_hudson.html The last talk of the day that I went to was about Hudson, the continuous integration system. Hudson ... seems to get momentum, if you look at the increasing mailing list traffic, 35 plugins at the moment, and it is... Java/J2EE Karsten 2007-12-10T23:40:12+01:00 http://www.karstenvoges.de/blog/archives/2007/12/10/javapolis2007_day_1_the_zen_of_agile_management.html This was an overall nice talk given by David Anderson with a couple of group exercises in between. Although it is difficult in a pretty anonymous audience to collaborate a few groups tried it and even on your own the... Management Karsten 2007-12-10T22:25:42+01:00 http://www.karstenvoges.de/blog/archives/2007/12/10/javapolis2007_day_1_seam_in_action_part2.html The second part of this session was delivered by two guys from Lunatech, so no Seam Commiters or JBoss employees. Unfortunately one of the guys was hardly understandable since his French English was hard to follow. The talk first started... Java/J2EE Karsten 2007-12-10T15:00:00+01:00 http://www.karstenvoges.de/blog/archives/2007/12/10/javapolis2007_day_1_seam_in_action_part1.html In this talk Peter Muir, who is a Seam committer, gave a quick intro to JSF, EJB3, Seam and JBoss Tools. Since many people knew already about JSF and EJB3 Peter only quickly introduced JSF and EJB with an example... Java/J2EE Karsten 2007-12-10T13:30:00+01:00 http://www.karstenvoges.de/blog/archives/2007/12/09/javapolis_2007_around_the_corner.html Javapolis starts tomorrow and I am looking forward to it. Hope it still is as good or even better than two years ago. This time my wife and our little one Jonathan is coming with me, so the evenings are... Java/J2EE Karsten 2007-12-09T00:31:56+01:00 http://www.karstenvoges.de/blog/archives/2007/07/04/java_ee_6_proposal_sounds_good.html Yesterday the Java EE 6 proposal (JSR 316) was published and Rod Johnson did a nice commenting, why Java EE 6 Gets it Right. Besides the necessary updates and improvements the biggest accomplishments would be deprecation/removal of old features and... Java/J2EE Karsten 2007-07-04T12:08:29+01:00 http://www.karstenvoges.de/blog/archives/2007/06/25/whatwg_to_start_work_on_bible5.html Hilarious "June Fool" I found on a mailing list. WHATWG to start work on "Bible5" Silicon Valley - June 2008 After their successful work on HTML5, CSS5, XML5, SVG5, and Web5, the WHATWG has announced that it has started work... WWW Karsten 2007-06-25T09:00:19+01:00 http://www.karstenvoges.de/blog/archives/2007/06/20/orchestra_is_the_new_seam.html Apache MyFaces announced the availability of Apache MyFaces Orchestra and it sounds like a real great integration tool: JSF - Spring - JPA Although they are not positioning it directly as a Seam killer (see Orchestra and Seam) IMO it... Java/J2EE Karsten 2007-06-20T09:44:42+01:00 http://www.karstenvoges.de/blog/archives/2007/06/20/update_on_firstlife.html Hello everybody, this is just a short notice about my life and what change in the last couple of months. I know I haven't blogged a lot about my private life lately but there have been quite a few big... Diverse Karsten 2007-06-20T09:24:21+01:00