Last week I had the pleasure attended Heinz Kabutz Java Specialists Master course to sharpen my Java skills. Java Champion Heinz, is a great trainer who manages to combine anecdotes, hard facts and deep Java knowledge with engaging exercises to a well done course. The scope was the whole spectrum of Java, but focusing on the details you normally do not use, or know how to use. Some of the material he already published as part of his newsletters, which are read all around the world.

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“Dr. codecentric und seine kranken Pfleger”, (codecentric, M.D. and his sick attendants) the codecentric board game team, Andreas Ebbert-Karroum, Torsten Rodemann, Marc Clemens and Fabian Lange (left to right) competed in Dinslakenhighly motivated for the qualification for the national board game championship this Saturday. After having been quite successful last year at our first attempt, our expectations were high, despite the lack of proper training.

Every player had to play one round of each of the games: Agricola, a pretty complex strategy game, Stoneage, a round based resource gathering game, Dominion, an interesting card game, in which players compile a custom card deck according to the available cards and their strategy, and Heckmeck am Bratwurmeck, a pretty simple dice-rolling game, which trains you calculating probabilities.
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Last week I had to change a webservice-client in such a way as to be able to configure a timeout. The webservice is implemented with spring-webservices and uses the WebServiceTemplate class. read more…

2009 has passed a few days by now, so I think it would be appropriate to look back on what has happened last year. Just recently I said to somebody: “Well I am with codecentric for only a year and a half so far”, but in fact we did quite a lot in 2009. So there is a lot to look back. Like the 85 blogposts published. And there is a lot to look forward to. I am very proud of our achievements and our spirit. read more…

In the near future I have to write my thesis. So I bought the book “Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware” from Andy Hunt who authored “Pragmatic Programmer” as well. read more…