Blast from the past

It's been about 4 months since I had logged into my blogger acount to write anything, or even check if anyone had left comments on past articles. To those who had left comments with questions: I apologize, I'll try to get answers to you as quickly as possible.

What kept me from posting? Nothing much really: I was focusing on some things at work; there was a longer family vacation around Christimas, and I was a bit busy working on the latest edition of a (German) beginner's book on Java. The fifth edition just launched a few days ago, and I'd like to thank and congratulate my co-authors (especially Dietmar Ratz, without whom this would have been impossible!). My focus this time was on the "online add-on", a collection of chapters about things like annotations or unit tests, and a load of programming examples about the subjects covered in the book. It was an interesting blast from the past, using things like LaTeX for setting text again, and it reminded me how much fun it actually is to write, assumed one has an interesting topic to write about.

This week, I will do my best to catch up on the comments that I missed over my extended break from blogging. Once that is done, I hope I can think of a couple of interesting things to write about. I've got enough ideas for a couple of articles, but it can never hurt to have a huge backlog, so feel free to put suggestions into comments to this article.