XFCE 4.6: lean, usable, appealing.
It’s been quite a while… Apart from some short-term distractions (like playing with KDE2 for a short amount of time), I have been using the XFCE desktop pretty…
28. Februar 2009
enabling equinox osgi console on tomcat/linux
At the moment I am heavily into playing around with server-sided OSGi, mainly to get knee-deep into the Eclipse RAP plaform for a given use case, and I…
19. Dezember 2008
Songbird: 1.0
They’ve gone quite a long way: Songbird, the open-source cross platform music player based upon the technical foundation of Mozilla, finally has seen its 1.0.0 release, available for…
3. Dezember 2008
Glassfish V3 Prelude comin’ to life…
As of today, November 6, release V3 Prelude of the Glassfish Application Server is about to be officially announced, putting an end to quite a long period of…
6. November 2008
OpenSolaris 2008.11 and “the slider”
Whoever has a look at things to come once in a while noticed that, downloading and running the up-to-date OpenSolaris ISOs available at genunix.org, OpenSolaris 2008.11, the next…
4. November 2008
WebSynergy: portal development renewed?
Quite a while ago, there has been an announcement publishing a collaboration between Sun Microsystems and Liferay in order to create what eventually could be referred to as…
3. November 2008
OpenDS: serving LDAP in five minutes
While getting my diploma thesis done, I spent quite some time dealing with various implementations (both open-source and “proprietary”) of the LDAP protocol in order to get a…
28. August 2008
os2008.05#5: conclusions, continuity and chaos…
Ending a rather calm and productive week, I do have a rather clear impression of OpenSolaris 2008.05 by now. As to be expected, there’s some light, some shadow,…
27. Juni 2008