Christoph Jahn

There is a great online book available for Solaris, called ‘The consolidated “Less known Solaris Features” tutorials‘. It is constantly being extended and at the time of this writing contains almost 400 (!) pages.

Release It!
Michael T. Nygard. Pragmatic Bookshelf 2007, Paperback, 326 pages, $19.99

I bought this book about a year ago and -shame on me- only just read it. It’s really great for everyone that is interested in designing and developing robust software. So in that sense a must-read for all of us.
The book is organized in four general sections: Stability, [...]

When David A. Fisher wrote this paper in 2006, the hype around Web Services and SOA had just begun. The point that struck me most when reading the executive summary, was that Fisher does not limit his thoughts to technical systems. Instead he accepts the fact that the involved people are also an important part [...]

When you look for a great selection of free material around management you can hardly avoid this website. It contains a lot of material from Marshall Goldsmith and you should also check out the blog. The latter contains a lot of posts one could call philosophical and it is one of the best blogs I [...]

The Smithsonian National Musuem of American History has set up a special website dedicated to innovation. What I found particularly interesting are the stories of some inventors you probably don’t know (although you certainly know what they invented, e.g. Kevlar). Please look here

Scottish music is more than just bagpipes. Probably the most well-known band is Runrig, although I sometimes get the impression that they had their greatest success in the 1990s. But the CD I want to recommend today is not from them (although I have some of their stuff and certainly like it).

Rough Guide to Scottish [...]

SOA in Practice
Nicolai M. Josuttis. O’Reilly Media 2007, Paperback, 352 pages, $27.54

A colleague recommended this book (link to amazon.com and amazon.de) to me and I was not disappointed. On the contrary, this was one of the most interesting IT books I have come across so far. The author is pretty well known in the SOA space and a [...]

My favourite podcast is Manager Tools, that offers an incredible amount of tips and useful background information on many aspects of management. A friend told me about it some 2 years ago and since then I’m hooked. The really cool thing is that all shows have actionable content. They typically last about 30-40 minutes, [...]

If you spent your teen years in the middle to late 1980s chances are you owned a Commodore 64 home computer (or a C-128 as I did). For those of us that want to re-live these years there is now a chance.

On the Edge
Brian Bagnall. Variant Press 2005, Hardcover, 548 pages, $119.65

This book gives a comprehensive description from [...]

Today I would like to tell you about a very effective way to organize your work. It is the “Getting Things Done” approach from David Allen. Some people argue that due to its simplicity it does not deserve to be called methodology. In my view this is a completely academic argument. On [...]