http://beeger.net/ en-us 2008-11-08T14:27:00+01:00 http://beeger.net/archives/2008/11/anathem.html Neal Stephenson has written another great book — Anathem. Visit the website of the book for a short summary of what it’s about and some nice videos featuring the author himself talking about the book and reading some passages from... robert 2008-11-08T14:27:00+01:00 http://beeger.net/archives/2008/07/waiting_for_iphone_3g.html Some time ago I ordered an iPhone 3G at T-Mobile. My current contract with T-Mobile ended this month, so it was a perfect occasion to get an iPhone. Unfortunately it wasn’t delivered, yet. I called T-Mobile ServiceCenter today and after... robert 2008-07-28T15:16:49+01:00 http://beeger.net/archives/2008/06/halting_state.html “Halting State” is a funny nerd-book by Charles Stross. The setting: In an online role playing game a bank is robbed. Three people, a cop, an insurance accountant - both women - and a game developer investigate the case. The... robert 2008-06-08T14:00:00+01:00 http://beeger.net/archives/2007/12/osmorc_osgi_support_for_idea.html 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... robert 2007-12-12T23:09:17+01:00 http://beeger.net/archives/2007/10/movable_type_4.html 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... robert 2007-10-01T11:22:00+01:00 http://beeger.net/archives/2007/07/comparison_java_and_k.html 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... Rant robert 2007-07-08T19:06:38+01:00 http://beeger.net/archives/2007/07/tiddlywiki.html 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... Rant robert 2007-07-06T09:46:51+01:00 http://beeger.net/archives/2007/05/filebrowser.html 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... Dev robert 2007-05-04T19:38:48+01:00 http://beeger.net/archives/2007/03/naviactionpad_07.html After 3 months of inactivity — at least concerning this plugiin — I have made a new release of it. While using it whenever I worked with IDEA, I noticed that it behaved a bit unpredictable. The problem was that... Dev robert 2007-03-12T19:50:01+01:00 http://beeger.net/archives/2007/02/delicious_firefox_bookmarks_ex.html I have been using the del.icio.us Firefox extension for some time now. It’s OK, but it is not really a replacement of Firefox’s bookmark functionality. While browsing through addons.mozilla.org, I found another extension that integrates del.icio.us into Firefox. It’s called... Rant robert 2007-02-16T15:35:31+01:00 http://beeger.net/archives/2007/02/enso_launcher.html I came across Enso Launcher and had to try it out. Enso Launcher is an application launcher similar to Quicksilver, Launchbar or Find And Run Robot. You press some key, type in some characters and the launcher shows you a... Rant robert 2007-02-02T16:13:22+01:00 http://beeger.net/archives/2007/01/three_secrets.html Martin asked me to tell the world three personal secrets. Well OK, I won’t tell you any real secrets, but here are some facts that are not generally known about me and may be fun to read about: My first... Rant robert 2007-01-03T14:58:37+01:00 http://beeger.net/archives/2006/12/nights_dawn.html “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... Books robert 2006-12-23T19:12:40+01:00 http://beeger.net/archives/2006/11/naviactionpad.html 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... Dev robert 2006-11-03T22:42:05+01:00 http://beeger.net/archives/2006/10/perfectdisk_8.html 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... Rant robert 2006-10-14T15:18:44+01:00