I have my iPhone for several months now and have to say that the hardware and parts of the software are really grate. Never the less several issues came up while I was using it and some of them are crucial for me. 1. I want to decide what application to install The current situation [...]
I am one of the luck people who has an Google wave account for some time now. At the moment, as nearly none of my friends has an account on the sandbox. Currently I am playing around with the system and following the developer discussions. It is really interesting how much work is already done [...]
As some of you might now I have started using Twitter for some time now and writing tweets since a view weeks now (http://twitter.com/goertsch). As most of the people I know I am not using the twitter website directly, further more I am using TweetDeck at the moment because it is the best application I [...]
This weekend i finally decided to move one of my domains (saurers.com) to Google Apps. The main reason for doing this was that several of my family members have used different mail services and i didn’t want to maintain them any more. I was playing around with Google Apps some time ago but my ISP [...]
I just mentioned that Google Reader got several new features. I was just trying them and mentioned some issues. Notes I think this was a feature that had to be added to the reader. Not being able to add content links to your shared items feed that is not available in form of an RSS [...]
I was playing around with the Java Web services Developer Pack and BPEL nearly the whole evening now and some stuff really drive me crazy. Dealing with all the different Namespaces and the strange handling of the NetBeans IDE. I can’t understand why you close an wizard and just print an error message if there [...]
I was posting about the JAOO 2007 several time ago and would like to share an other experience i had there. On Monday I had lunch with Wayne Fenton from ebay where he explained their deployment strategy to me. The concept they use is very easy but if you take a closer look it fits [...]
Our team is using the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 for nearly 2 Years now and I have to admit that its handling still surprises me sometimes. The application we are developing uses the database heavily for some scenarios and last week we had to recognize that some concurrent situations take the Server into an undefined [...]
Probably most of you know I am currently working for SENACTIVE and we are developing an Complex Event Processing System Called InTime in C#. Yesterday I had a meeting with an potential customer and he was asking what our platform target is. I said it is Windows as we are developed in C# and until [...]
In one of Alister Cockburns last posts he was writing about Using RUP to fix Scrum. As i read his small article one sentence attracted my attention. He wrote: The pendulum has swung too far from “too much planning” to “not enough understanding”. I have the same feeling for some time now. The picture on [...]