Eric Bodden

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Tandem is not just a bike with two seats, it also means “at last” in Latin. At last I received my Ph.D. Diploma today! After only eight months of waiting time –yeah! Guess in what language it was written? Click the photo…

I hope I will be able to translate it at some point. For US immigration officers this appears to be too hard of a job.

Update: Here is the text and English translation. Thanks to Nicholas Greco!

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Today, my colleague Marcel Bruch pointed me to this Explanation of common Java exceptions. I found it very useful. Maybe you like it too

In my opinion, a very simple but effective measurement for the effectiveness of presentation slides is the bullet-to-slide ratio, i.e., the average number of bullets per slide. In my opinion, one should aim for a ratio smaller than 1. I just sat in a presentation with a ratio clearly larger than 7 and it was awful.

In about two weeks I will be at ICSE, presenting my paper on statically evaluating finite-state runtime monitors by determining continuation-equivalent states. I know that many people who are doing related work will be at the conference too. So if you are one of them, don’t be shy and try to find me.

AOSD 2010 in Rennes and St Malo just finished. It was a great event, I really enjoyed the conference a lot. You can find some photos here. There was lots of interesting papers. The paper Execution Levels for Aspect-Oriented Programming by Eric Tanter won the best-paper award, certainly deserved, I think it’s great work.

It turns out that AOSD 2011 is going to be in beautiful Pernambuco, Brazil. It’s certainly going to be a great event, too. I hope to see you all there. AOSD 2011 is going to have two submission deadlines:

First Round

Research paper submission:Thursday, July 1st, 2010 (23:59 Samoan time)
Acceptance notification:Monday, September 6th, 2010 (23:59 Samoan time)

Second Round

Research paper submission:Friday, October 1st, 2010 (23:59 Samoan time)
Acceptance notification:Friday, December 10th, 2010 (23:59 Samoan time)
Camera-ready copy:Thursday, January 13th, 2011 (23:59 Samoan time)

You can submit to each round separately – both rounds are largely independent. However, if you submit to the first deadline then you have the advantage of (1) maybe having your paper accepted earlier or (2) if it gets rejected with a “resubmit again later” then you can re-submit an improved paper to the 2nd deadline. The goal is to enable a more journal-like review process that allows for correcting papers instead of having to reject them right away.

Today, when I installed MacOS X Leopard, I was surprised to see that the update had remove Java 5 from the disk! The “1.5” folder now is just a symbolic link to the 1.6 JDK! Where is the sense in that? I guess I am not the only developer who just needs a 1.5 JDK from time to time. I don’t care about the old VM but I do care about the old class libraries. When using Java 6 libraries to develop Java 5 compatible code it can easily happen that one uses APIs that were not available in 1.5. Luckily I had time machine set up, so it was easy to get back the “real JDK”. No wonder they save so much disk space in Snow Leopard …

Netzpolitik.org hat einen Remix-Wettbewerb ausgeschrieben, da das aktuelle CDU Wahlplakat für Wolfgang Schäuble doch etwas “wahrheitsverzerrend” daherkommt. Rechts bisheriger Favorit.

Update: Mehr hier!

2.Update: Und hier zum Selbermachen!