The next big thing in my iTunes library

I just found this girl from the wonderful London. First I heard it on the local radio station and now I got on my iPod, yeah.

More about her.

SWT File Drag'n'Drop

Did you ever try to enable your Eclipse RCP application to handle file drops from the Explorer, Finder, or whatever your OS brings?
Here the solution:
http://alan.blog-city.com/swt_dragndrop.htm

Symbolic a Grails example

While I prefer Ubuntu as a Linux OS, there is a cool Open Source application available for administration of Fedora and RedHat Linux machines, called Symbolic. It's based on the awesome ils framework and it's defenitiv a good example, that an Open Source application can have a pretty looking homepage ;-)

Tiny URL for your app

It is a great idea to make big URLs more usable. TinyURL is such a service, who can do this for you. I use it a lot in Twitter, but what if you also want in your own app?

It's pretty easy since TinyURL provides a nice and small API.

http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=http://theurlyouwantmakesmaller

The result will be the TinyURL link, you'll want. Try this:

http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=http://www.timetoact.de/ttacms.nsf/id/EN_EmployeePages

It will create a TinyURL to a product presentation of my company. Copy the shown URL to your browser's address bar and you'll see, it just works.

To much snow for a wednesday

I can't belive, but this morning there were 10 cm of snow on my car. I like snow in my holydays, but today I'm working. Here some impressions from today's ride to work:

Enabling the cool developer tools in Safari

All web developers love Firefox because of the awesome Firebug Add-on. Sure, me too, but what is with all the other browsers?

Well, Microsoft will maybe offer real developer tools with IE 8. But for my favorite rendering engine WebKit (e. g. in Safari or Google Chrome), there are allready some cool tools availabe. On a Mac all you need to do is typing the following command into your Terminal:

defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitScriptDebuggerEnabled -bool true

Now open Safari's preferences and activate the develop menu on the advanced tab. That's all. You'll get a cupple of cool tools, which are as powerful as Firebug.

Here the network ananlysis of my iGoogle page:

Looking pretty nice, or?

More for Drosera (that's the name of the WebKit developer tool) can be found here.

Now it's official

Graeme has just posted it.
Congratulations to the G2One guys.

SpringSource has bought G2One

I just read it, but I'm not sure if it is realy true, what The Register writes today. G2One is the company of Graeme Rocher and the other guys behind Groovy and Grails. SpringSource is the company behind the awesome Spring framework, which is also the base of Grails.
Hopefully there will come a lot of benefit from this acquisition for Grails. My biggest wish is, that they will bring Grails to Spring Dynamic Modules for OSGi and thus onto a great OSGi infrastructure. This would also fix the most voted issue for Grails.

Girl Effect

There is chrismas coming soon. So start thinking, if buying much presents for all the people you know, is the best you can do with your money.
You can also give it to someone who can do much more with it:

GroovyMag, oh yeah!

I just read on the Grails homepage, that #1 of the GroovyMag is released.
You can buy it as a PDF online, which is great, since I come from Germany and a magazine printed for the US doesn't make any sence for me.
I'll give it try and tell you how it is.
So keep on grooving.