In one of my last posts I told you about some issue with OxygenXML and Eclipse 3.1 when doing Flex development. Luckily, Darron Schall just blogged about his efforts to use the Eclipse Web Tools Platform for Flex development and seemed to be pretty satisfied with it.
I gave it a try today and I’d [...]

My work-mate Michael posted a pretty detailled review of the website of the German major parties in his blog. Very entertaining to read, but just available in German…

Following my last two posts, here’s the final Flex app. If it takes a while to load and to start the reason is most probably not your line or Flex, it’s more or less because of my pretty slow server.
Well, comparing to yesterday’s screenshot, I changed a few things in the UI, applied a style [...]

Tonight, I’ve been slightly bored by no friends available, wife off for work over the weekend, lousy TV programme and dumb weather
So, following my last post on why CF developers should care about Java stuff, I built a simple Flex app to visualize Amdahls Law. Here’s a screenshot, I just have to make [...]

Just recently I was asked why one should care about JVM tuning, garbage collection and other “very low-level settings” (the latter from the point of view of the average CF developer). I mean, I’m talking and writing about that pretty often… so – a reasonable question.
Let me give you an example with figures… Let’s assume [...]

To mark that point very clearly: this if off-topic. It’s neither an official statement of bloginblack.de nor of Agent M, it’s just my private opinion of the general election rally getting started over here.
Well, to give you an introduction: This country is governed by a SPD/Green coalition. For all those people not knowing the SPD [...]

Back in the late nineties, a lot of companies burned their cash for…well…ideas, dreams of getting rich, Sun 450 servers, over-priced Oracle licenses, sushi for lunch, an expensive office and some more stuff. I used to work for one on those companies in 2000 and had some sort of timewarp experience just recently.
A former work-mate [...]