http://beeger.net/ en-us 2010-06-29T22:54:41+01:00 http://beeger.net/archives/2010/06/reading_ebooks_on_the_ipad.html The iPad is a great device for reading ebooks. The bigger screen is a big advantage over the smaller screen of the iPhone. On the iPhone I always used a small font and small margins to get as much text... robert 2010-06-29T22:54:41+01:00 http://beeger.net/archives/2010/03/rainbows_end.html When I first read about this book, I thought that there must be some typo in the title. Surely it should be “Rainbow’s End”, shouldn’t it? We all have read stories about rainbows’ ends and all the wealth that awaits... robert 2010-03-21T15:30:52+01:00 http://beeger.net/archives/2009/11/im_leaving_osmorc.html After two years working on Osmorc, I’m leaving this project. It’s been an exciting time. Especially at the beginning working on Osmorc was a very rewarding task. Finding out, how OSGi could work with IDEA and then seeing that it... robert 2009-11-27T17:33:19+01:00 http://beeger.net/archives/2009/09/ereadercom_now_practically_una.html I’m an eBook fan. I started reading eBooks at the end of 2003. I was searching for a good English dictionary that would run on my Palm Tungsten T. Back then I was reading books made of paper and most... robert 2009-09-20T13:31:44+01:00 http://beeger.net/archives/2009/06/osmorc_becomes_osgi_support_in.html Yesterday JetBrains released the first milestone of the next version of IntelliJ IDEA - codenamed Maia. One of the new features of Maia is “OSGi Support”. The OSGi support in Maia is provided by a bundled version of Osmorc. The... robert 2009-06-27T11:13:18+01:00 http://beeger.net/archives/2009/01/osmorc_wins_a_prize.html Osmorc, a plugin that enables development of OSGi based applications with IntelliJ IDEA and that is developed by Jan Thomä and me, won a “Honorable Mention” prize in the “IntelliJIDEAL Plugin 2008 contest”. Although working on Osmorc itself and the... robert 2009-01-31T13:19:21+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