When you build a software system, something can go wrong. You have to plan for that. It can be a programming error, an operator error, or a situation you haven’t planned for. I’m pretty sure you have seen web pages giving you cryptic error messages, thus indicating that something went wrong. In many cases, [...]
Author Archives: Thomas Weitzel
A night at Frankfurt airport
2006-12-30 – 21:00
Yesterday, I received a phone call from someone who asked me to meet aircraft N279WA in Frankfurt on a cargo mission. It came from Chicago and went back to Atlanta. This aircraft has been converted to a cargo plane only recently. And it has a new livery now.
iPod in the car
2006-12-14 – 19:00
For our family car, a 2006 Mercedes-Benz C-class station wagon, I wanted to be able to connect a MP3 player to the car audio system. We have an iPod and the girls have some other MP3 players as well. Although the CD player in the car can play MP3 CDs, it doesn’t always work. It [...]
All GWT components now Open Source
2006-12-12 – 22:30
The Google Web Toolkit team has announced Google Web Toolkit Version 1.3 Release Candidate on the Google Web Toolkit Blog and the Official Google Blog. There have been no code changes since GWT Version 1.2, but all of the source code for GWT has been released under the Apache 2.0 license. This means that the [...]
Microsoft is terrified
2006-11-23 – 11:55
Linux continues to penetrate their markets. Other Open Source projects do it on the Windows platform as well. It’s not the current situation but the trend that worries them. And they don’t seem to have a working strategy against it. Immediately after the recent Novell/Microsoft deal, that included a patent covenant, Steve Ballmer said something [...]