Monthly Archives: May 2008

Build Your Startup on Ruby on Rails Philosophy

Today, I studied the blog of maybe the most well-known blogger in Germany, the first time. It’s Robert Basic, who’s an IT professional, too. Digging in some of the German posts I found a hint on a presentation that was held by the inventor of Ruby on Rails. There’s a lot of discussion about the… Continue Reading

Grandmaster, There's a Human Beatbox in my Kitchen!

I’m a Hip Hop fan since 1983. Those days it was pretty difficult to be a German hip hopper. What a difference today. Although, I’m not active anymore I still get this itching in my legs when listening to a scratch beat. YouTube is full of it and it’s fantastic to even have a look… Continue Reading

Lessons Learned From Spring’s @Autowired

Last November we got Spring 2.5 and with it the possibility to use annotations for dependency injection (DI). Annotations can be used instead or mixed with the classic application context file(s) based on XML. If you compare the former more complex XML configurations with what you still have to keep, after using annotations, it’s quite… Continue Reading