The self-publishing plan is gone. The Mieses biography will be published by Hentrich & Hentrich in spring 2027, German first, with an English edition in preparation.
The Mieses book has a publisher
How AI Read My Ancestor’s 1864 Russian Passport
In a folder of family papers my father owns, there is a folded sheet of heavy paper with a Russian imperial eagle at the top, a pressed seal at the bottom, and writing I cannot read. The print is in
Jacques Mieses: A Book That Started in the 1990s
Every Christmas, for most of my life, I have sat down with my father to play chess. He always wins. This is not a story about dramatic reversals. My ELO rating, if I had one, would probably be negative. We
Struts 2 vs. Spring Boot on AWS Lambda: Size, Memory, Speed
Update, September 2026: The measurements below are from 2018, taken with the framework versions of the time and the Java 8 runtime on Lambda, so read them as historical. Two things would change a rerun. This test averaged 360 requests
The Apache Way of Open Source: My Talk at re:publica 2018
In May 2018 I spoke at re:publica in Berlin for the first time. Newthinking invited me to give a short talk in their exhibition program about The Apache Software Foundation and how its projects govern themselves. The slides are on
Struts2 jQuery Plugin Version 4.0.1 with support for Struts 2.5 and for jQuery Datatables is released
The version 4.0.1 of the Struts2 jQuery Plugin is now finally available in the maven repository. This is the first released version which is compatible with latest Struts 2.5.x version. This version contains some breaking changes, so please update carefully!
My ApacheCon Core Europe 2015 Talk: Struts 2 and AngularJS
In October 2015 I spoke at ApacheCon: Core Europe in Budapest, the Apache Software Foundation’s own conference. The talk showed how to build Java web applications with Apache Struts 2 on the server and AngularJS in the browser, and what
AngularJS with Java: A Web App on a Struts 2 JSON Backend
Update, September 2026: AngularJS reached its end of life on December 31, 2021 and gets no more security fixes, so don’t start a new project with it. The back end half of this tutorial still holds. A Struts action that
Struts2 Bootstrap and jQuery plugin are now migrated to github
Google does not invest resources to Google Code anymore. There is no progress over years and first feature, the Download section, was turned off. So I decided to migrate Struts2 jQuery Plugin and Struts2 Bootstrap plugin to new locations on