DigitalHobbit

Here is a very nice collection of weblog and RSS submission sites.

IntelliJ IDEA 4.5 was released a few days ago. For those of you that haven’t used it: IDEA is a truly awesome IDE - lightweight and quick, extremely intuitive and smart, and with great refactoring features, as well as solid integration with external tools such as Ant, JUnit, and various source control systems. It is [...]

Out of curiosity I just did a Google search for “digitalhobbit” to find any references to my site (not that I really expected any…). One of the links that was returned among the top search results was this one. It points to a site called All Consuming, which apparently monitors blogs for Amazon book links [...]

I have recently had a chance to look into several XML object binding frameworks, including JAXB, Castor, and JiBX. As usual, each framework has its strengths and its weaknesses. I should add that our requirements are pretty special, as the classes that are bound to XML will form part of an SDK and therefore [...]

The third book in the Pragmatic Starter Kit series, “Pragmatic Project Automation”, is now available, either from Amazon or from the Pragmatic Programmer website. I have read and can thoroughly recommend the other two books in the series, “Pragmatic Version Control” (Amazon link) and “Pragmatic Unit Testing” (Amazon link). All books in the series are [...]

Even though the Amazon Plog initially did not show up for me when this feature was first launched, it started to show up a few days ago. The name definitely seems like a poor marketing idea, since this feature has absolutely nothing to do with a blog, other than its blog-like layout and the reverse-chronological [...]

Here’s an interesting site: Bitoogle, a BitTorrent search engine (via Boing Boing).

It’s funny how BitTorrent, which was really just implemented to speed up downloads of large files and not for filesharing, turned into a popular and efficient filesharing application…

Mark just published a Wiki plugin for WordPress on his Weblog Tools Collection.

This is great news, and I can’t wait to install it on my blog. I am a big fan of Wiki servers as collaboration tools and for simple knowledge management tasks, and even though the collaboration aspect would not really apply in case [...]

I would apologize for the recent lack of updates if anybody besides myself was actually reading my blog…

Anyway, we moved to our new house in San Francisco last weekend, and overall everything was pretty smooth. Of course, with two little kids it takes a lot longer to unpack everything and settle in, so [...]