About Christian Grobmeier
Christian is a passionated software developer, architect and trainer. He is a member and VP of the Apache Software Foundation, working on projects like Struts, log4j and others. He founded Time & Bill and constantly tries out new ideas.
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Fragmented projects and overcommitted people
In 2010 I wrote two articles on Burn-Out and exhaustion in software teams. Since then there were more and more articles of this kind printed in the major german press. Psychologists ...
The new log4j 2.0
Before a while a new major version of the well known log4j logging framework was released. Since the first alpha version appeared 4 more releases happened! You see, there is ...
The 10 rules of a Zen programmer
On a rainy morning I found myself sitting on the desk thinking about efficient working. Before I started as a freelancer I had some days were I worked lots but could look only back ...
Apache OpenOffice vs LibreOffice: Make love, not war.
Before a good while something terrible happened at Oracle. The result was that a lot of developers made a fork of OpenOffice.org and called it LibreOffice from that day on. We can be ...
Apache OpenOffice just graduated from the Incubator
Apache OpenOffice has just made it out of the Incubator and is now an official Apache Software Foundation project. “What?”, might some people ask now, “wasn’t it official before ...
How I select Open Source projects
Earlier this day somebody sent a image on twitter. Its title was something like, “how to choose Open Source projects” or so. It showed a flow chart. The first decision point was: ...
5 things I learned from a Hacker attack
On Friday evening I got an e-mail from my provider. They told me my webspace was subject of a hackers attack and they would shut it down until they have analysed its root cause. There ...
Three mobile projects from the Apache Software Foundation
When somebody says “Apache Software Foundation” in a discussion on Open Source, some people try to provoke with a big and loud yawn. They think on C++ coding dinosaurs who are hacking ...
5 ways how a recruiter can **** me off
I get called from recruiters on a regular basis. It just happened right now which motivated me to collect my thoughts on IT recruiting – something on my to-do list for a while. To ...
