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Yearly Archives: 2003

Squareness: My First Open Source Project

My, my, that took some time, but finally I have made a first release of my first Open Source project. It is called Squareness and you can visit it at http://squareness.sourceforge.net/ It’s a suite of skins and its purpose is to create a uniform look on all supported platforms and applications. Currently I have only a skin [...]

The Humor in Kill Bill

It’s some time since I watched this movie. It was on the same evening that I thought about writing something about it, but I’ve been very lazy. So it took me some time to get to it, but at least here I am There are many critics who say that no bit of Tarentino’s humor is visible [...]

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

I have finished reading the fifth installment in the Harry Potter series. And I have to say, it’s again a very gripping book and fun to read. Although it is again fatter than it’s predecessor, there are no boring patches in it. I could tell you, who get’s killed this time, but I won’t. Don’t [...]

Windows XP Style Look And Feel

The new JDK 1.4.2 comes with two new lnfs. One of them is a look and feel for Windows XP. It uses the new theming engine build in into Windows XP. When using this look and feel Java applications look like native applications on XP. Well, at least that’s what it’s meant to be like. [...]

Switching to Movable Type

After one year with Blog I now switched to MovableType. The installation worked like a charm. Sticking to the installation notes brought me in no time to a working system. The good and clear site information system of domainfactory, my hoster, helped also in this I’m nearly finished changing all the templates to the style [...]