As I tend to forget the syntax of Oracle SQL commands, I will write them down here, every time I have to look them up. Beginning now: Turn off variable replacement in SQL+ set define off; Drop Column alter table <tablename> drop column <column_name> Also look here. Rename Column alter [...]

Recently I digged a little in the mechanism of our ID generation. One of our IDs was annotated like this: @Id @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.SEQUENCE, generator = “myIdGen”) @SequenceGenerator(name = “myIdGen”, sequenceName = “MY_SEQUENCE”) protected Long id; But seemingly the underlying (Oracle-)sequence remained untouched. On an empty DB, with a sequence [...]

Since I moved my hosting location I had some problems to schedule backups with the WordPress DB Plugin. Simple Task: I wanted to create backups of my DB and have it emailed to me once a week. This used to work great with my old hosting environment. Eventually I discovered [...]

So it’s finally done! I gave a talk about Eclipse RCP in our Form-based application last Friday (04-11-2011): Tickling the shoulders of giants. I was awfully nervous, but after all it was a great experience and everything went pretty well. Considering the time of the talk (Last day of the [...]

Recently I had to dig into JMS to implement some asynchronous behaviour in our current application. I haven’t used JMS thus far, but it looked quite promising and straightforward to me. I got the ConnectionFactory and queues working quite fast and the first messages appeared in my queue. Horray! To [...]

I managed to propose a session for the EclipseCon 2011 conference the last minute. The talk will deal with ouir experiences while implementing a Rich Client based on Eclipse RCP. The decision if it will accepted is announced on September, 1st. So keep your fingers crossed. I am excited already! [...]

Meinen neuen Artikel gibt es jetzt auch hier auf Slideshare.

Mein neuer Artikel wurde in der aktuellen Ausgabe des Java-Magazins veröffentlicht. Es geht um einen Vergleich verschiedener RCP-Frameworks hinsichtlicht der Erstellung formularbasierter Rich Clients. Eine Übersicht findet man hier. Vielleicht kann ich auch die Tage ein PDF des Artikels hier verfügbar machen.

Ich überlege, ob es nach wie vor eine gute Idee ist auf englisch zu posten. Vielleicht halte ich es so, dass ich SW-Entwickler Themen eher auf englisch verfasse, den Rest eher auf deutsch.  Da ich mich selber ärgere wenn ich ein hilfreiches Posting aufgrund der Sprachbarriere nicht richtig verwenden kann, [...]

As you might have noticed,  my site is more or less back again. Until now the relocation did not cause any major headaches, which is a good thing ;) I did a fresh install of wordpress, as my new provider offered me a one-click-install option. It wasn’t actually “one-click”, downloading [...]