My Not So Private Tech Life

Thanks to Eberhard it's my turn to tell you three things about me that hardly anyone knows - for a reason:

• My programming career started exactly 25 yrs ago at the tender age of 12 when I was offered a Commodore VIC-20 for Xmas. Read on Wikipedia the interesting story of its German name...
• I'm still waiting for my Mac Book Pro to arrive. It's the first Mac I (hopefully) will own in my life; that's by itself a fact to be ashamed of but I never owned a NEXT either, nor could I call an AMIGA mine. My hardware career went straight from VIC-20 to Atari ST to Atari TT to PC. That's pathetic, isn't it?
• I'm sure you wouldn't want to know the looks of my bathrobe IF you had the choice. But sadly you haven't:

I'm supposed to hand on the baton to three other bloggers. It's my personal Xmas present to the blogosphere that I spare all but one: Achim just got back from holidays and thus he deserves to be the next.

My personal christmas present for you all is version 0.9.5 of ClasspathSuite. You can now include other JUnit4 test suites to be run in multi-project settings in Eclipse.

See this story if you wonder why this is even an issue.

My gosh. Via Elizabeth Keogh I found this music video about the Japanese way of doing Extreme Programming.

Laugh if you can. Produce your own song otherwise.