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My MAC is Sick

This morning my MacBook Pro just remained dark when I switch it on. Nothing, nada, nichts was showing up - neither on the internal screen nor on th...

Back to Halo 3

After having my family sick for 5 days I eventually found some time to play a few hours and went back to Halo 3. Coming back after quite some t...

Hibernate: Update or No Update - That is the Question

This week I was confronted with a challenge to figure out when Hibernate does update a record and when not. The problem was that we had to know...

Liferay Presentation and Path Finder 5

Tonight I will give a presentation about Liferay on the Pasadena JUG. It will tackle how to setup a website using Liferay 5.1.2 including creat...

I crave a Good Piece of Bread III

Well, this week I tried to make a bread in a form, let it rise there and then put the loaf inside the form into the cold oven and then start to...

Spring Security and XML Namespace

The first project I used Spring Security (formerly known as ACEGI) the setup was so complicated that we used the Spring Bean format from the be...

Is Open-Source Dying because of the Economic Downturn?

In a piece of Wired.com the self-proclaimed 'hater of all free' Author Andrew Keen says that the economic downturn will pop open-source. It see...

I crave a Good Piece of Bread II

Yesterday I tried to back another piece of bread based on the same dough as on Sunday which is white flour with enough water to make a good dou...

I crave a Good Piece of Bread

Since I am living in the US I crave a good piece of bread and every time I am in Europe I cannot get enough of it. Since a while I try to back my o...

Bankers == Bandits ?

Back when I was young there was a sarcastic saying: What is a bank robbery compared to an opening of a Bank. Even though then this was more lik...

Battery Problems with Blade 400 3D RC Heli

I am flying with that heli for a few weeks now and then I decided to buy another LIPO battery to be able to fly twice as long. Unfortunately a ...

Are Americans too Tools Geil

Growing up on a farm in Europe I could enjoy the food and preparation processes from earlier days and so I tend not to use as many tools in kit...

No New MacBook Pro for Me

Apple announced yesterday their new line of MacBook Pro laptops and I am not going to buy one. First the ugly glossy screen which is hard to re...

Hibernate and Criteria

I am not an Hibernate hacker but I know enough about relational databases because of my past Oracle DBA experience and enough about OO...

Another Try / Heli Update

Lately I did not post a lot and it is not because I did not have material to talk about but I just did not have much time. That is mostly d...

Who is Cadillac kidding?

Lately I saw the TV ads about the new Cadillac Hybrid. Wow, Detroit is in deep sh...t and the only thing they come up is to put a hybrid onto a ...

Who dares to go to the ER

What I learned from my 8 year stay here in the US is that whenever possible stay away from the ER as far as possible. But with 4 young kids that...

RC Heli 1 & 2

Since I was a boy I was fascinated by RC air planes and a few years later by RC helicopters. Back then flying such a helicopter was one of the m...

Work or No Work

By the end of last month my contract ended and I was again in the situation to find a new contracting gig. Even though this ...

Java Service Wrapper on a Mac OS X Server

Because of issues with the Layout of the Blog I moved the content of this blog entry to this Wiki page. Have fun - Andy

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