Michael Vorburger's Old Blog

An archive of this blog, which you can still comment on, is now located at http://blog1.vorburger.ch . You will be automatically redirected...

A visiting family friend of ours pointed me to Pranav Mistry's SixthSense . If you haven't seen this already, do watch the Videos -...

An object has references to other objects. A row in a relational database table has foreign keys (FK) to rows in other tables. While this ...

Recently I received one of the more fascinating emails in quite a while. Quite an experience, really. With Bill's permission, here it is...

I vaguely knew there was something like a W3C Geolocation API , had earlier read about the Google Gears Geolocation API , figured Yahoo had ...

Here is a list of some links to learning websites & software for kids which others may find useful, from my delicious.com bookmarks . Mo...

I have been playing with xText , a very interesting framework for development of textual domain specific languages (DSLs). My interest is ar...

Apache Commons Lang has a ToStringBuilder which is sometimes handy . The other day I needed something like this which "reflects...

I am currently designing something around FetchGroups in OpenJPA , and being a good Agile / Test Driven architect, I wanted to write a JUnit...

I am at the Venture Night of the lift conference in Geneva this evening. It's an interesting change from the sort of things I think ab...

I had heard about the new "Street View" in Google Maps earlier but just tried it for real tonight... To "walk" from my p...

Running JUnit tests from an Ant build script - piece of cake? Welcome to Classpath Hell. Read the Ant FAQ for a taste of what to expect.....

XFire includes a ws-security example , which demonstrates how a SOAP Header with a Web Service Security (WSS) UsernameToken can be inserted...

Hand writing WSDL (Web Service Description Language, stop reading here if that doesn't mean much to you?) is a pain. The GUIs I have see...

If you develop SOAP-based Web Services, there is a tool that you will not want to miss once you have tried it. It's soapUI , an open-sou...

Machine translation seems to have made impressive progress in the last few years. Running e.g. a Wikipedia Article article through Google ...

I just realized that you CAN read Gmail offline... via Google Desktop! (You have to enable that "Search Gmail [X] Index and search emai...

From: Michael Vorburger Subject: Proposed new XFire example: Use of wsgen/xfire (contract first), and Spring To: user@xfire.codehaus.org Hel...

Yesterday the morning newspaper carried a (very short) article about new Electronic Passports being hacked or something like that. I wanted ...

I recently wanted to set up Tomcat for two-way (mutual) SSL. It turns out this is fairly easy, particularly with Java5 since it now provides...

Posted snaps of some LEGO constructions I made with Dév...

Imagine a set up where a team A provides Web Services to Team B. The service team A uses a "contract first" SOA approach, so they...

The other week-end Dév and I made an animated movie of his current favourite toys , including soundtrack. He loved it - almost as much as ...

Just for fun (well, almost), I wrote my very own simple HTTP server in Java ( download 100 KB ZIP ) the other night. It uses Java5 features...

Recently a needed to get the number of days between two dates in Java. Easy, right? Quite a few pages & articles suggest, and I admit my...

I first really heard about the $100 Laptop by the One Laptop per Child initiative (OLPC) from news coverage of the World Summit on the Info...

I have been using a Tablet for about 3 months now, and wanted to write down a few notes about the experience so far. This article is not a r...

LIFT06 might be an interesting conference... happening in Feb, right next door! Going?

I switched to using FeedBurner . Still have to work on vorburger.ch integration and visual...

Just briefly various three notes of the last few days: I am still searching for a good RSS aggregator, see my article from last week (Out...

Uh yeah... how did that work again, to run a UNIX command that shows both its STDOUT and STDERR on the console as usual, as progress report,...

Ok ok, this was long overdue... ;-) Ta ta ta taaaa! Happy to announce: http://www.flickr.com/photos/vorburger/ - for you!

So Kaboodle is what Keiron has been up to lately... Looks interesting! It's basically a very simple "blog", specialized for ...

Actually... in my mind a somewhat related topic to Outfoxed & Co. is one "ranking", but more in the context "information ...

Wow! This (and this ) didn't take long... "comment spam" is what they call it apparently. (I hope by simply enabling an optio...

I thought it was fun to notice that somebody blogged a page on my homepage (now very old) a few months ago... Actually, that's not a bl...