some personal, more technical – by Thomas Einwaller
Whenever I got time to watch some cool youtube vids I visit bestofyoutube.com – today the following one was my personal “Best of”:
In: Blackberry|Mobile|Software
26 Oct 2007Opera just released a new beta version of there mobile browser. Go and grab it at http://mini.opera.com/beta I am using Opera Mini since version 3 now on every mobile phone I had in the last 3 years because it is the best in my opinion. The new version is much faster than the last version [...]
Today my ISP surprised me with tripling my bandwidth for the same money – now I got 25600 kbs down and 1536 kbs up. Wow! Thats a 25 MBit Internet connection. Thats a quarter of my LAN speed. I am limited to 40 GB traffic per month – pfu If I exceed this limit they [...]
Some days ago I was asked by a student if I knew a issue tracking system implemented in ASP.NET. He needed one for a study project. I told him that my favorite bug and issue tracking system is still bugzilla. Im am using it for every project since five years now. But maybe there are [...]
I am using the prototype library for Ajax in my application for nearly two years now. First I transfered XML date between the server and the client as response but then I switched to using JSON. Using JSON is much faster, less data has to be transfered and avoids multiple browser problems with parsing XML [...]
In: Blackberry|Mobile|Security
16 Oct 2007Today a version of KeePass was released that works on BlackBerry devices. KeePass is a free, OpenSource password manager. It comes with a desktop client and (thats the best part) can be synchronized with the BlackBerry. I am currently using MiniSafe Desktop which I purchased two years ago for 29 USD from Handango. I am [...]
In: Blackberry|Fun|Mobile
15 Oct 2007Today I released a new version of PokerClock. PokerClock is a Java application that runs on every mobile phone that supports Java. It allows you to keep track of blind levels when hosting a Poker Tournament. You can define small and big blind and set the time for each level It counts down the time [...]
In: Blackberry
11 Oct 2007Today I came across another “BlackBerry site”: www.berryreview.com and I added it to my subscriptions. One post there catched my eye: Beautiful Free “Berry Glass†Theme For Your BlackBerry 8300 Curve If you want Windows Vista on your BlackBerry Curve you should give this one a try! These two screenshots look nice:
In: Java
11 Oct 2007The response to my post about OutOfMemory PermGen errors in Tomcat with Sun JDK brought up some very interesting things. I learned a lot from Frank Kieviet’s blog about possible classloader memory leaks and jhat usage. One comment brought up that it could be a Tomcat bug and it should be fixed with version 6 [...]
Today I upgraded my Eclipse installation to the current stable version 3.3.1. I did this because this version contains a fix for a bug that caused me some problems in the last few months. The CVS command “Switch to Another Branch of Version” did not work as expected. It always left a sticky tag on [...]