Archive for March, 2009

text message prices in Europe / SMS Preise in Europa

Posted by mark on March 10, 2009 under Private Observations, Technology

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After reading an article at Xonio’s about SMS prices in Europe I’ve decided to do my own research. After hitting on the European mobile phone providers’ homepages and doing some math, here are my results (data from today!):

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Not only did I list all the fees of the various tariffs as sum, with putting that in scale with GDP you can see how a particular price “feels like” to the country’s population.

Definitely overpriced are text messages / SMS (in average!)  in Bulgaria, Estonia, Austria and Italy followed by Germany. Interestingly the countries with cheap sms fees are those in which mostly the ‘big players’ have to face local competitors.

What’s the rate in your Country? How much do you pay for your mobile messages?

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fixing exceptions of SLF4J and httpunit

Posted by mark on March 10, 2009 under Development

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Ever experienced an exception like this? (1)

com.sun.jersey.api.container.MappableContainerException:
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/slf4j/impl/StaticLoggerBinder

com.sun.jersey.api.container.MappableContainerException:
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient

Or this one? (2)

java.lang.IllegalAccessError: tried to access field org.slf4j.impl.StaticLoggerBinder.SINGLETON from class org.slf4j.LoggerFactory

They’re caused by slf4j, a logger widely accepted as successor to the obsolete Apache commons logging. To be more precisely, by missing (1) or mixed versions of JARs (2). To fix it Read more »

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