May 9, 2011

I just found this peace of code in a big java project i’m working on: public void testSomething() throws IOException { … catch (Exception e) { StringWriter sw = new StringWriter(); e.printStackTrace(new PrintWriter(sw)); fail(sw.toString()); } } Wtf? I changed it to: public void testSomething() throws IOException { … catch (Exception e) { fail(e.getMessage()); } }

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May 5, 2011

I did a talk about HTML5 & CSS3 at the Java User Group Karlsruhe. Here are the slides: HTML5 & CSS3 – Slides At the beginning of my talk I showed this awesome video: I wrote some code for preparing this presentation. The code is available on github: Simple html5 canvas bar chart Html5 form

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April 18, 2011

Nächsten Mittwoch (20.04.2011) halte ich einen Vortrag zum Thema HTML5 und CSS3 bei der JUG Karlsruhe. Abstract HTML5 und CSS3 ist Zukunft des Webs. Für neue Projekte ist es auch die Gegenwart. Es gibt heutzutage KEINEN Grund neue Anwendungen nicht mit HTML5 zu entwickeln. Die aktuellen Versionen von Safari, Chrome, Firefox und Internet Explorer unterstützen

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March 25, 2011

Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do. – Donald Knuth

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