Archive for January, 2009

  • Silverlight Controls for developers

    Friday, January 30th, 2009 by stevie

    I personally didn’t have the time or the need to use Silverlight in a project yet although it is very tempting to try. For those of you who are already in the business with Silverlight Tim Heuer collected a list of controls useable for Silverlight. The list seems to be very long but he added [...]

  • Why use version control for solo developers or small teams

    Wednesday, January 28th, 2009 by stevie

    Since I started using version control systems like CVS and later on SVN I can’t remember how I could possibly work before. You might remember sentences like “But it worked yesterday!” or “Why the hell did I change that and when?” which were common companions when I looked at code I wrote a while back. [...]

  • How I would like to have a key like that…

    Wednesday, January 28th, 2009 by stevie

    Sometimes, late at night, when you just want to go to bed but this one nasty bug is keeping you busy you’d wish to have a key like that, wouldn’t you? Link: Make your own personalized keyboard

  • JBoss releases RESTEasy

    Sunday, January 25th, 2009 by stevie

    JBoss released a project named “RESTEasy” which provides  help to build RESTful web services and RESTful Java applications. It is useable in any servlet container but – as you might already expected – it is built to work tighter with JBoss Application Server.

  • Using PHP5′s XMLWriter

    Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 by stevie

    The Class library of PHP5 offers a possibility to easily generate valid XML-files. Sadly the documentation and the usage examples are very poor on this topic so PHPBuilder Forum member iceomnia decided to do something about it and wrote a quick howto on this subject. With that information you can jump right into the code [...]