The upcoming talk at the Java User Group Karlsruhe this Wednesday is kind of an experiment. It features Scrum, which according to Wikipedia: ... is an iterative incremental framework for managing complex work (such as new product development) commonly...

A couple of week ago, I saw a talk on Spring 3.0's MVC REST support. It's quite impressive how simple SpringSource made REST development by applying the proven concepts of the core Spring Framework. One of those great core concepts is Templates....

A little note upfront - this is not about software development, so if you are solely here to read about my take on coding, this blog entry is not for you! A little more than 2 months ago I pre-ordered Apple's new Mac OS X 10.6 aka Snow Leopard one...

During listening to Software Engineering Radio's Episode 148 - "Software Archaeology with Dave Thomas", I got quite annoyed by a comment made by one of the respected authors of "The Pragmatic Programmer". To quote Dave Thomas correctly, here's what...

This coming Wednesday Gregor Roth from 1&1, you might know him from his InfoQ article, is going to give a talk on RESTful applications at the Java User Group Karlsruhe. He will show how to implement applications leveraging a RESTful architecture and...