“Night’s Dawn” is a Science Fiction trilogy by Peter F. Hamilton. Some day more than 2 years ago, it was offered in an ereader newsletter for a special price. The plot sounded interesting and so I bought it. At the beginning of this year, I finally began reading the first book. Now that I finally [...]
NaviActionPad is the first plugin I developed for IntelliJIDEA. I was playing around with IDEA’s plugin system several times before, but never produced anything worth publishing. Then three weeks ago the idea for NaviActionPad came into my mind and only two days later I had finished the first rough version. NaviActionPad is firstly a navigation [...]
When Windows NT was released and with Windows NT the NTFS file system, everyone said “NTFS doesn’t fragment”. When the first defragmenters for NTFS were released, we got to know how untrue that statement was. Back in the Windows NT era I bought Diskeeper and was quite satisfied with it until it destroyed one of [...]
I’m using Firefox since its RC1 release. In the meanwhile RC2 was released. The theme has changed a bit. It has more gradients now, but that’s OK for me. A nice addition is that the icon for closing tabs is now on the tabs themselves and not on the right side of the tabbed pane. [...]
A List Apart is like they say themselves “For People Who Make Websites”. It’s an online magazine which is published once or twice a month with articles from various masters of CSS and other aspects of web design and coding. I rarely read the issues as they come out since I’m not that deeply involved [...]