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Let’s assume you are a software developer, a free-lancer, and a prospect customer calls you. He needs a (small to medium-size) Web application and wants you to develop that application, but first he asks for the best “technology” for that application. What do you say?

Yes, what kind of useful technologies are there? And what are the criteria to select one?

You do not use Microsoft technologies, because you are a Java developer… Maybe MS would have some useful tools for the job, but you don’t know them or don’t want to use them.

So what about php? The big advantage is that it runs on a lot of servers, doesn’t need many resources, and there is much code available on the Web. But still, you are a Java delopver. And the customer wants a rich user experience, i.e. you will need a lot of JavaScript in the application. Or maybe there’s something else?

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HttpCore and HttpClient are now available in a 4.0 version. It’s not ready for “production” yet, but it’s going in the direction of an improved API and better performance.

“HttpClient now sports a cleaner, more flexible and expressive API, a more modular structure, improved performance and reduced memory footprint. [..] HttpClient 4.0 is still considered experimental and should be used with caution.” Changes in HttpClient 4.0

Home Page of HttpClient

There is a country with a special kind of people and a very special kind of culture: France.

In the times of globalization I think it is very important to have a culture which is able to offer something which is not totally influenced by US entertainment for stupid masses.

1986 the french humorist Coluche made a TV show with several french musicians. Unfortunately he died then, but the concept of combining french artists for some charitable purposes is still alive.

It works like that: every year (in January or February) a lot of french artists come together and make a show, a big one, over several days. That group of artists call themselves “Les Enfoirés“, and there are not always the same musicians, no, they change.

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You may wonder, why a company’s home page is a BLOG. Or maybe you wonder, why there is some information about a company on this BLOG.

Actually I - Thomas Eichberger - think that “times they are a changing” (Bob Dylan, of course). So a static or somehow dynamic home page is not good enough anymore for a small, innovative company like mine.

I think that one needs something more informative, more interactive, with more value for the visitor.

So the idea is to offer a lot of articles, and public and personal information about a lot of topics on this home page. And the currently best way to do this is by using great BLOG software like Wordpress.

Of course it will take some time before we can offer all those nice things here - we have to create them first -, but during time this will be a great place here…

Enjoy!