New Year starts with Scala

Slowly up to speed New Year is here, smoke calming down after a couple of nights of excessess with fireworks (and some other stuff too). I think tonight, the sky will be clear, and the air fresh again. After lazying around with my family during the Christmas Break, its time to actually work again. Preparing [...]

JAOO

I attended JAOO in Århus this year – what a fantastic experience, this conference has a special atmosphere. Denmark is such a small country, you keep meeting old colleauges, classmates, bosses – whatever. This years buzz was all about functional languages – we finally need to decide what to do with side effects. One possible [...]

Sending html mails with embedded pictures, that Thunderbird can understand

Users of Thunderbird have for long known, that html messages with embedded content look “strange” – you see a list of attachments part1.1, part1.2 – when you click on one of them, you see the html text message, or the pictures that should have been embedded. I have just discovered a way of sending html [...]

New job – new technology stack.

Well I HAVE worked as an RCP developer at APC Denmark. I do not work there anymore, since my values do not conform to the company values – whatever that means … well, probably this means that I will leave RCP development for a while – right now I am really fascinated by cool serverside [...]

Sending html emails with embedded pictures

Right now I am working on a project where we have to implement sending emails, with embedded pictures. We use the javax.mail framework – and it is really cool to be able to spam your friends with those generated mails. I found an excellent desciption of how to do it: http://www.rgagnon.com/javadetails/java-0504.html.