I have heard of Google Chrome for the first time on September 1st. A comic strip about Chrome was leaked on the Internet. At that time, there was no software download available. Rumors soon followed about the early availability of a beta version and a Google press conference the next day. This press conference actually [...]
Author Archives: Thomas Weitzel
Enough Talend for the job?
2008-05-26 – 22:55 CEST
I’m part of a team that builds a data warehouse for our client, an international recognized car and motorcycle manufacturer. Right now, the data comes from various sources, most of it is provided in CSV files. As a first step, these files are loaded into a staging area. It has been decided to accomplish this [...]
Wicket first contact
2008-01-06 – 20:45 CET
While working on an AJAX web application a couple of weeks ago, a co-worker asked me what I know about Wicket. Not much at that time. I knew it was some kind of component based web framework, but only in the sense like everybody knows that Porsche is a German car brand.
During the recent holidays [...]
Why I upgraded to GWT 1.4.61
2007-11-08 – 21:05 CET
The previous version GWT 1.4.60 came out on August 27th, 2007. A couple of days later I had upgraded all my applications, the expression calculator demo too. None of the applications suffered from a strange bug except the demo. It appeared only when Microsoft’s Internet Explorer was used. A message box was displayed that told [...]
Trac for a team of one
2007-09-10 – 22:50 CEST
Even the smallest development team (one developer) needs a source code repository with versioning like Subversion to track all the changes made to the source code over time, and to reproduce the revisions software releases were based on. The ability to create branches is necessary to maintain software releases in the field, while continuing with [...]