Today I learned an interesting feature of JavaScript along with Firebug. Instead of using “alert” to display some trace information, you can use “console.log (“my message”);”. Together with the free web development tool Firebug, this information can then be shown in Firebug’s console window. This is extremely helpful when trying to debug some AJAX code. Please visit this website to get more information. Saved my day ;-)

An Evaluation Version for OLIVANOVA products is available for everybody on CARE’s website. CARE stands for Computer Aided Requirements Engineering and is the producer of the MDA product OLIVANOVA. OLIVANOVAEvaluation Version consists of: OLIVANOVA Modeler Evaluation Version setup OLIVANOVA Transformation Engines services available for 30 days A flash demo that explains the OLIVANOVA development lifecycle from scratch. A set of tutorials that explains how to model and generate a sample application. A set of howtos that explains how to deploy the obtained source code. The OLIVANOVA Evaluation Version is available from the CARE website. This site contains two tabs: ...

If you want to learn more about model driven architecture/model driven development in general and especially integranova/OlivaNova you are more than welcome to join us on two of the next roadshows in Munich/Germany and Düsseldorf/Germany. For more information and a detailed agenda please visit integranova’s website.

While playing around with some XMI (XML Metadata Interchange) importing/exporting functionality, I found this great blog: Modeling LAnguages (original URL https://modeling-languages.com). His service to convert from one XMI format to another is just awesome. Have a look at this site: XMI2 - A tool for exchanging UML models among CASE tools (original URL https://modeling-languages.com/content/xmi2-tool-exchanging-uml-models-among-case-tools).

Here is a nice conflict between Oracle products. I installed “Oracle Database 10g Express Edition” along with “Oracle Containers 4 Java” as the application server to run my J2EE app on. I installed the database engine first and then configured OC4J. OC4J needs an environment variable called ORACLE_HOME in order to run. This needs to point to the folder where you unzipped it. Everything worked just fine at this stage . ...

I finally managed to add this project on sourceforge … here is the link

I currently ran into an interesting issue when installing MS SQL Server 2008. During the initial checks at startup of the installation process I got the following error: “Restart required”. So I restarted my computer but without success. I got exactly the same error message again. I found out that this happens due to a wrong registry entry. In order to get the prerequisite-checks to succeed I had to delete the value of the following registry entry: ...

A couple of days ago I received an email from Steven Davis. He proposed some brilliant enhancements to the MySQL session state store provider. Thanks to him, I am able to provide a new release of it today. New features he incorporated into the provider are: added cluster db support: the ability to retry within a cluster of servers, the web.config can then use connectionStringList="," fixed timeout Minutes to TotalMinutes changed namespace to Kimpel.MySqlSessionDll to make debugging clearer Release v.03 now also supports MySQL Connector/Net 6.2. I also added a SQL script to create the necessary sessions table. ...

I really like the idea and hope to see some of it in the near future. Have a look at this video: (original URL https://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6712657&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1) 10/GUI from C. Miller on Vimeo.

I am using Microsoft’s Virtual PC quite heavily in all my development projects since it has lots of advantages in my day to day work … especially when working in multi-project environments. It is just until this week that I learned a very important lesson in this area. I can’t imagine how difficult and inefficient my setup has been. I found this very interesting blog entry “HOWTO: Use Virtual PC’s Differencing Disks to your Advantage” by Andrew Connell that makes life so much easier and in additon to that saves tons of space on my harddrive.