Wednesday, 31 October 2007

Halloween: Shows the Scary Side of the US Housing Market

We are living a little bit more than a year in a new development with a house that is not even 4 years old. Last year's Halloween trick-n-treat walk yield so much candy that the kids could hardly carry them home. Nearly every house was giving candy out. This year was quite a contrast. Many houses were empty especially the ones with a dying lawn in the front but also many houses with lights inside were not giving out candie. So the kids did not have to carry that much but had to walk quite more in order to get some candy. Even though our neighborhood is still quite nice the keep on reading here

Posted by schaefera at 10:12 PM in Personal

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UML is Only for Painting Nice Diagrams

I have a strong aversion against UML except for some of the diagrams. But for anything else especially code generation UML is completely useless. If a developer or developer team needs class diagrams to generate Java classes then they should attend a beginners class for Java. The only UML diagram I like are Sequence and sometimes Use Case diagrams. Yesterday I wanted to illustrate how a demo application works that uses ServiceMix as service bus. So first I had a look at ArgoUML even though my past experiences weren't that good. Along the way the bad experiences resurfaced and I abandoned it. Then I had a look a Poseidon and even though they call it their community edition they still want a user to register even for the trial and start immediately charging you every year after the trial except you cancelled it. I don't like that model and off I went. Finally I found a nice little tool called sdedit, an open-source, all Java Sequence Diagram editor.

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Posted by schaefera at 3:36 PM in Java

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