Torsten Curdt’s weblog

Who is not on the never ending quest for the perfect mobile phone!? Within the last year I had three different mobiles. Lost my Siemens S55 then picked the Sony Ericsson K700i. Did not like it and after a week exchanged for the Nokia 6230.
Now half a year later I am looking for something else. The Nokia does the job. The OS is snappy and especially the hardware is pretty ok. But I really don’t understand the hype about the Nokia user interface. IMHO the menu structure is crap. It’s probably only that a lot of people got used to it. Anyway! ..this is not meant to be a bile blog (I hate those!) so …I am again(!) looking into getting a new mobile phone. One that properly synchs with iSync. I thought the new iSync was meant to support the Nokia 6230 …but looks like it is not. So far the candidates are:

• Motorola Razor v3
• Sony Ericsson K750i

Would be great to hear some opinions…

I just arrived back from traveling Queensland. Being two weeks offline I am still working my way through the backlog of mails and news. One thing I found so far blew me away… It’s hard to find the right words. I am …really surprised …deeply honored …proud and very happy …because I was elected as an ASF member.

Just about to head to head off for vacation …finally 8-D

I gonna be traveling from Mackay up to Cairns – offlline for two weeks.

Quite a while ago I had a look into plugin development for Eclipse. Just to get my hands wet with the PDE I scratched an itch I had for a while. I wrote a plugin to visually evaluate XPath expressions from within Eclipse. While you type it evaluates the expression and highlights the matched notes. It also tells you whether the expression is ok or not. Don’t expect a rock solid plugin – but in general it works. Quite a few improvements I’d like to see though.

• moving the context node
• parse the document in a separate thread (more snappy)
• displaying XPath value results

Unfortunately it seems like a tree view is not capable of holding huge amounts of nodes. Hmmm. Live updating the outline view from the editor content would also be cool …but that would be a “nice to have”. It would certainly be great to have a talk with a serious Eclipse developer. If you want to give it a try here is the update site.

You are wondering why it took me so long to announce it? Go and ask sourceforge *pff* …and I thought german bureaucracy would be slow – anyway.

Finally we made it! Michael, Marcus and me in Australia
at the same time. This was planned for while but was postponed
again and again. Anyway – looking forward to some serious fun
with my aussies :)