Some time ago as I was looking into JavaScript frameworks for the development of mobile web applications I stumbled upon Google Closure. Compared to jQuery and jQuery mobile Google Closure is a somewhat underhyped toolset for the development of client-side web applications. Several features of Closure made me take some time to dive into it: [...]
It’s been nearly 5 years since the last redesign of my blog. Time to change it again. This time a lot of things change. Naturally the design is the most apparent change. It’s very minimalistic now. There are no images in the header and the footer and no boxes around the individual posts. I’m using [...]
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 actually did work, was a great pleasure. And people actually used it. Though there was [...]
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 bundling of Osmorc has several effects on Osmorc. One of the effects is that the [...]
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 positive and helpful feedback from its users is already a great motivation, the recognition and [...]