I’ve been using the old “PlainTextBlog” theme since 2006, when i started writing this blog, time for a change, i guess. I was very happy with the free template for michael-simons.eu by html5up.net, so i gave Pixelarity i try and bought access for some months. This theme here is now based on Archetype and I’m […]
Geertjan Wielenga (read his bio here) from Oracle comes to Aachen on August 25th for giving a presentation about NetBeans titled “Free Open Source Tools for Maven, HTML5, IoT and Java EE” at the EuregJUG. After writing my own NetBeans testimonial some days ago, i’m very happy to meet him in person once again. The […]
If you upgrade your Tomcat installation to 8.0.24, released on July 6th, and all your POST requests suddenly starts to fail, check maxPostSize of your connectors. The Tomcat team actually fixed it’s behavior: The meaning of the value zero for the maxPostSize has also been changed to mean a limit of zero rather than no […]
Earlier this year Stefan Pfeiffer aka @dl1ely approached me, if I would be interested in a Java User Group (JUG) in Aachen, set up as a cross-border, english-language JUG. My spontaneous reaction was something like “sure, great idea”. Becoming a group member of the iJUG was pretty straight forward, something i wanted to do as […]