Saturday, 14. October 12006
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campaign for real beauty.

because unilever wants you girls out there to feel more self-esteem. and to buy their products.

Saturday, 7. October 12006
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catfish. the advertisement from the deep.

Thursday, 5. October 12006
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a suggestion for even more comfortable skin rendering in helma.

Wednesday, 4. October 12006
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hello, mcfly?! anybody home?

biff's question song.

Sunday, 1. October 12006
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how rabbit is rabbit?

quite some time ago i've left my ramblings at helma's wiki about helma needing a little bit too much of preparation for some quick and dirty prototyping.

and since do-it-yourself is probably the only reasonable motto if you want to achieve change, i so did it myself – and started a new project to take some action regarding at least a few of my conclusions.

thus, if you're interested in a simple helper for kind of rapid hoplication development (ie. getting helma to automatically create prototypes for you including directories, type- and db.properties and – yes! – most of all: sql tables) then i'd like to encourage you to download rabbit-428 (text/html, 10 KB) and hsqldb.jar.

put the latter into helma's lib/ext directory. the zip file goes into your application's directory. (i recommend a virgin app for maximum effect.)

(note: a recent helma installation containing the modules directory is required.)

now (re)start helma, point your browser to localhost:8080, click the button and... fingers crossed!

(As usual, documentation is missing... But I will add some further notes about Rabbit as soon as possible.)

Friday, 29. September 12006
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what's your favourite all java database?

Open Source Database Feature Comparison Matrix.

rdbms datastores (which are compatible with jpox).

Wednesday, 27. September 12006
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so, there actually is a way to prevent disambiguity when calling overloaded java methods from within javascript:

new java.lang.String"(char[])";

(thanks to robert for the hint.)

Monday, 25. September 12006
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orf radchallenge '06.

mac os x keyboard layouts on windows: autohotkey and how to obtain an autohotkey.ini file.

it might sound ignorant, but i think just at this very moment i gained full understanding about why (typo)graphic designers theoratically cannot work with windows at all... or is there any other, easy solution to the basic problem of entering special characters under windows?

Sunday, 24. September 12006
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is the open source movement just a joke?

michael chrichton: "[...] the human genome exists in every one of us, and is therefore our shared heritage and an undoubted fact of nature. Nevertheless 20 percent of the genome is now privately owned. The gene for diabetes is owned, and its owner has something to say about any research you do, and what it will cost you. The entire genome of the hepatitis C virus is owned by a biotech company. Royalty costs now influence the direction of research in basic diseases, and often even the testing for diseases."

...or is it the necessary first step making ground for similar movements in other aspects of life?