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Yearly Archives: 2007

Osmorc: OSGI support forĀ IDEA

I have published the first release of my third IDEA plugin called Osmorc. Osmorc is a plugin that enables development of OSGI based appllications in IDEA. Currently only some basic elements like Export-Package, Import-Package and Require-Bundle are supported, but those are the necessary building blocks for OSGI applications. Making those concepts work with IDEA’s module [...]

Movable Type 4

I’m now on my way to update my blogs from Movable Type 3.33 to Movable Type 4.01. The basic update was fast and easy. My templates still work and the sites can still be viewed after a total rebuild. At first the commenting functionality was broken, but that problem was resolved after the initial update [...]

Comparison : Java and K

OK, I know nothing about the programming language K. So I won’t criticize K itself. What I want to talk about is the comparison of Java and K. I don’t get it why people always think that if they need fewer lines to write a program in one language than in another that the said [...]

TiddlyWiki

TiddlyWiki is a wiki contained in one page. You can download an empty TiddlyWiki and put it anywhere you want — on a USB stick for example. It doesn’t need any database. It’s only one HTML page with lots of JavaScript and CSS. You simply add and edit tiddlers (that’s what the parts of a [...]

FileBrowser

I released my second plugin for IDEA named FileBrowser. As the name suggests it is a plugin that allows browsing of the local hard drives on a computer. The idea for this plugin came into my mind some two months ago when I realized how really inconvenient it is to open files that are located [...]