#title Journal
#style journal.css

* Sun, 13 Nov 05

#categoryfamily0 
** Katinka
*** CategoryFamily

Since seven weeks the lives of Bettina and me have changed in a most
wonderful way: Our daughter Katinka has been born. We are very happy.
This is real life! There are some [[pics/katinka/index.html][pictures]].

* Wed, 03 Aug 05

#categoryemacs0 
** Read Maven POM Files with Elisp
*** CategoryEmacs

After a long time in the back burner, here is a new elisp snippet:
[[elisp/mylisp/pom.el.html][pom.el]] enables Java programmers using maven and JDEE for their
projects, to compute the JDEE classpath from the maven =project.xml=
file. [[elisp/mylisp/pom.el][Download]]

* Wed, 29 Sep. 04

#categorymisc0 
** I have been away
*** CategoryMisc

from the computer for some time. No updates to this site. But I had
good reasons. Reason number one: 

** I married the love of my life!

My new wife is the wonderful Bettina Arndt. After nine years of
relationship a marriage probably won't change much, but it has been
marvelous up to now, and I'm sure it will only get better.

For the nosy ones: there is a (German) [[hochzeit/index.html][part of this site]], dedicated to
our marriage. 

Reason number two:

** My bike

Would you sit in front of a computer screen if you could sit on this
beauty, smell the winds and ride into the sunset?

[[img/vstrom-sunset.jpg]]

Since I got it, at the end of June, I already put 7000 km on the
meter. It's a great bike, a Suzuki DL 650 V-Strom. I can not recommend
it high enough. A very powerful V2 engine, excellent handling and a
comfortable riding position, what else do you want?

My wife isn't so enthusiastic about biking but I talked her into doing
a small tour through southern Germany and the Alps. We had 3 days of
nice weather and three cold and rainy days. Tina was freezing bad,
despite her neoprene knee warmers, but I hardly noticed anything in my
Goretex clothes. Worth their money :-) See some [[pics/autumntour/autumntour01.html][pictures]] from the Tour.

#categoryjava0 
** New version of jde-gen-extra.el
*** CategoryJava

The new version of my [[elisp/mylisp/jde-gen-extra.el.html][jde-gen-extra.el]] package features a better and
equals and hashCode method generation and some more customization
options. The jde-gen-extra.el package can generate *equals*, *hashCode*
and *toString* methods for Java objects and contains a wizard for
exception classes. Here is a short overview of the new stuff:

- Only non-static and non-transient members will be used in the
  *equals* expression and *hashCode* calculation. This ensures that a
  deserialized object is equal to the instance is has been serialized
  from.
- The *hashCode* method now uses different prime numbers for all members
  that are null.
- Members with primitive types are compared first in the *equals*
  expression. The expensive object or array comparisons come
  later. This improves the performance since most of the time the
  first comparisons fail.
- The instanceof check in the *equals* template has been replaced by a
  class equality check.
- Some options for formating of the generated code.

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