http://www.christoph-jahn.com Tue, 20 Jul 2010 05:00:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I grew up in the beautiful city of Regensburg in Bavaria (southern Germany), which was founded by the Romans in 179 as a military camp. Since 2006 Regensburg is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. [singlepic id=405 w=440 h=330 float=] Wikipedia has a few things to say about Regensburg (and there is also ... http://www.christoph-jahn.com/?p=1031 One of the less known libraries of the Apache Commons project is JXPath which implements XPath (and not only for accessing Java beans but of course also DOM structures). Documentation, however, is scarce so the tutorial provided on http://www.tfo-eservices.eu/wb_tutorials/media/JXPathTutorial/PDF/JXpathTutorial.pdf is something you want to look at. http://www.christoph-jahn.com/?p=1018 While looking for a regex reference for XML Schema I came across the site http://www.regular-expressions.info that offers a plethora of information about regular expressions in general. And as each programming language's implementation is a bit different from the others, there is also a special section that points out these aspects. ... http://www.christoph-jahn.com/?p=1012 I hadn't looked into the topic of Java decompilers for quite a while and was interested to learn from a colleague about the Java Decompiler project. It comes with either an Eclipse plug-in or a stand-alone GUI that doesn't require installation. http://java.decompiler.free.fr/http://java.decompiler.free.fr/ http://www.christoph-jahn.com/?p=999 In May I spent a few days on Grand Cayman and here are the pictures (finally). Enjoy! [nggallery id=15] http://www.christoph-jahn.com/?p=1007 I recently looked into the subject of cross-platform installation. In this context I have come across the multi-platform installer IzPack (there is also an interview on InfoQ). Although this creates Java installers, as opposed to native formats like MSI or RPM which I prefer, it seems to be an interesting ... http://www.christoph-jahn.com/?p=995 I have been a happy user of the typesetting system LaTeX for almost 20 years. For creating the actual output (be it a DVI, PostScript or PDF file) I have usually used some home-grown script in the past. But recently, when digging through the repository of available software for my ... http://www.christoph-jahn.com/?p=988 I did not only visit New York but also the Washington DC area. Here are the pictures ... [nggallery id=14] http://www.christoph-jahn.com/?p=983 And here are the remaining pictures from the New York trip ... [nggallery id=13] http://www.christoph-jahn.com/?p=973 Here are some more pictures from my recent trip to New York. This time it's everything related to the waterfront. That especially includes a trip with the Staten Island Ferry (for free!). And on the last picture you can see president Obama's car waiting for him ... [nggallery id=12] http://www.christoph-jahn.com/?p=966