As you will have noticed, when reading this page, I brought my new website online. Although I was quiet satisfied with Serendipity, I decided by May this year, that I wanted to bring up a real website again. Since October 2005 I only maintained my web log and my photo gallery on Flickr, due to missing time and lack of motivation to raise a real website again. Now that changed, with switching to WCV. [Read full post…]
On Wednesday I finally received my OpenMoko Freerunner, the smart phone every open source guy is dreaming of. I don't want to rant a lot about it, but just give you a rough overview on my impressions. [Read full post…]
Last night the Mozilla developers released Firefox 3.0 to the wild. Congratulations for the new major version! [Read full post…]
After some heavy discussions with Kore and others I researched about German law in respect to individual rights on photos yesterday. Thanks to Arne, who gave me a good starting point (German) for my research. In the end, Kore was mostly right with his interpretation, what made me remove about 1100 photos from my Flickr gallery. All of those showing people dedicatedly where I do not feel to have the explicit permission to publish their pictures. I'll try to explain the reasons, my personal issues and possibly solutions in this article. [Read full post…]
Also quite old I'd like to recommend the video Revolution OS, which I stumbled upon yesterday, to you. The video deals with the evolution of the open source scene and how it started. While integrating some technical and geeky facts I think it is quite good for non-technical people, too, and can possible give them a hint on what we geeks do here on the internet and how they are affected by it themselves. [Read full post…]
My friend Sandro Groganz, who was leading the eZ Systems marketing department in former times, decided to become self-employed. Sandro will, on solid demand, create his own marketing consultancy, which is directed to the open source market in terms of vendors, contributors and investors of open source projects. Sandro's goal is to help those parties to [Read full post…]
Yesterday night I returned from the yearly International PHP Conference in Frankfurt. As usual this was an amazing event, because you get the chance to meet all those people in real live that you usually only talk to by mail and chat. I really like the ambiance in Mörfelden (where the Conference actually is, not far from Frankfurt), but as Lars stated, it's a good thing that IPC is only 4 days, since a lot of community members would need to detox from alcohol afterwards, if it was longer. ;) You see, we had some great party nights, again. [Read full post…]
On November 20th dynamic-webpages.de will start with the first "Professional PHP" online training. This series of online sessions offers you "24 hours of PHP knowledge, from professionals, to professionals". Topics covered in this series of talks are: [Read full post…]
The new semester has right begun, which basically means that the semester vacation as it was named earlier (now the lesson free time) is over. While that meant a lot of exams and work on the book for Kore and me at first, we had time for some vacation and finally to take care about a brand new eZ Components project: [Read full post…]
Are you using my phpDocumentor for VIM plugin? Go ahead and stack it! :) [Read full post…]