Apr 25

This just made my day:

When you’re in Eclipse (IDE), press Ctrl+3, then enter the name of a view, editor, preference, command, menu etc. or previously opened resource (e.g. a Java class), select the desired match from the list and voilà – Eclipse navigates you there. You can also enter the initials of the words you are looking for, e.g. “pe” for “Package Explorer”. That’s really a cool feature and available since Eclipse 3.3. It brings kind of a “spotlight feeling” to your development work ;)

Good bye, “Show View” and “Open Perspective” ;)

Apr 21

For some impressions of the JAX conference 2008, check out my Picasa Web Album JAX 2008.

Apr 20

We are going to leave Bayreuth in about two hours. Tomorrow will be the first day of this year’s JAX conference. While the main conference starts on Tuesday, there will already be several so-called “Special Days” on Monday. We are going to attend the Agile Day. Here a little overview of the topics:

  • Comparison of several agile methods (eXtreme Programming, Scrum, Crystal and Feature Driven Development)
  • A guide to becoming agile
  • Collaboration in Java Projects (IBM Rational’s Jazz)
  • Scrum roles and their meaning for agile teams
  • Field report of a Product Owner
  • Agile project management with contracts for services

I think it is a good start to see the different methods at the beginning of the day to have a better understanding for the following more specialized topics. I hope to get a very good insight into agile methods and agile project management as everybody is talking about it and there are often also very controversial interpretations of what agile really is. Of course, there are and must be always different opinions about such things. After all, it’s not about the name or definition of a method, it’s about the success that the applied strategy is supposed to deliver…

Apr 19

JAX 2008: The journey starts tomorrow

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Tomorrow, I will travel to Wiesbaden together with Andreas to visit the JAX 2008. Since we took advantage of the “very early bird offering”, we can join the Agile Day on Monday (April 21) for free. This is a bonus for booking the main conference that takes place from Tuesday to Thursday.

I’m looking forward to the atmosphere and knowledge that is present at “Europe’s No. 1 conference for Enterprise Technology and Strategy” in Wiesbaden’s Rhein-Main-Hallen. Last year, we didn’t follow the whole conference but joined in only on Wednesday for the second and third main days. Additionally, we attended the workshop for model-driven development with Eclipse and openArchitectureWare which was very interesting.

However, this year we decided against a workshop in favor of attending the whole main conference. What we didn’t change is the hotel where we will have dinner and sleep: Hotel Rheineck.

Stay tuned for more information about the conference: The hotel provides free internet access via Wireless LAN ;)

Apr 19

My FriendFeed is up and running

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Those of you who know FriendFeed can now follow me online. After being invited by Alex and reminded by Thomas, I decided to set up an account.

Currently, I’m sharing/using the following services:

So perhaps, see you on FriendFeed, too ;)

Apr 08

I really enjoy my MacBook and OS X, but I neither want to install nor use Safari on Vista (I don’t even use it on the Mac due to some vital Firefox Add-on ;)).

Always having to uncheck Safari when there are Quicktime updates is not very user-friendly…

Thanks Lifehacker for pointing out how to permanently stop safari on my PC

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