Blog Archives

  1. whatthecommit.com git hook

    Jul 3rd 2010, 19:23

    whatthecommit.com generates commit messages for the lazy… but being one of the laziest people, this isn't just easy enough!

  2. Windows 7 on MSI K9N Platinum (nForce 570 SLI)

    Dec 26th 2009, 2:41

    Recently, a fresh Windows install[1] was due on my home PC primarily used by my parents and family after my switch to a MacBook about a year ago.

    However, whenever I tried to start the[…]

  3. RapidShare. Completely unusable?

    Dec 26th 2009, 1:59

    A friend of mine wanted to share a video he made prior to publishing it at some video portal. He uploaded it to RapidShare. And that's where the problems started…

  4. Bon Appetit at the Erlangen canteen

    Sep 29th 2009, 19:31

    It’s no secret the canteen on the Erlangen university’s southern campus is not the best – but I haven’t seen something like that before.
    erlangen canteen worm
    A little bit disgusting if you ask me – I[…]

  5. Xcode from NULL to 100;

    Sep 17th 2009, 18:24

    I was recently browsing the new iTunes 9 Store and somehow ended up in the podcast section. I had a look around the featured podcast and noticed a somewhat new podcast about Xcode[…]

  6. GeSHify has moved

    Apr 2nd 2009, 18:52

    My syntax highlighting extension for ExpressionEngine has moved to a new home:

    http://geshify.com/

  7. Subversion Property Copy

    Feb 16th 2009, 0:03

    Although there is a couple of Subversion GUIs for Macs, I usually use the CLI. I manage all source code I write during my studies using Subversion and usually add revision number and[…]

  8. A Friday 13th story

    Feb 14th 2009, 16:32

    Are you superstitious? Do you believe in Murphy’s law? I usually don’t believe in such things, but sometimes you start to have doubts…

  9. Software on a stick?

    Dec 4th 2008, 13:39

    When you buy software in stores you usually get a box with a CD, DVD or even a couple of DVDs. But isn’t that kind of – old-fashioned?

  10. university & MacBook Pro

    Nov 30th 2008, 18:34

    It's been a while since my last update — not because there's nothing to tell, but because I didn't find any time to write something down.

    So why's that? I'm attending university now: I'm in my first semester of computer science at the university of Erlangen and it's been a tough start figuring out how things work at university, finding the rooms, getting the work done, etc.

  11. on work atmosphere

    Aug 26th 2008, 22:49

    I don’t have a lot of experience working yet — however I noticed something that does have a huge impact on my work regarding efficiency, quality and my motivation: the atmosphere at my workplace.

  12. Backup a Linux server to a Windows PC while preserving user, group and permissions

    Aug 24th 2008, 23:32

    I moved my sites to a new virtual server at Carrot Server. Their offer is (imho) better than the one over at HostEurope, however there are some downsides: they don't have a rescue[…]

  13. GeSHify update

    Aug 5th 2008, 18:05

    GeSHify, the syntax highlighting extension for ExpressionEngine has been updated.

  14. I took it! And so should you

    Jul 29th 2008, 17:14

    A List Apart has published the 2008 survey for people who make websites. If you work in the web business, you should go ahead and take the survey as well.

    A List Apart Survey banner 2008

  15. Thunderbird IMAP push email

    Jul 12th 2008, 12:18

    Using Thunderbird as the e-mail client of your choice and the IMAP protocol to fetch and manage your mail?

  16. Probably the biggest RSS icon I have ever seen

    Jun 13th 2008, 18:07

    There’s a certain trend in so-called web 2.0 design to have ever bigger icons for RSS feeds (What are RSS feeds?).
    Now I recently saw an RSS icon that beats the pants of all other RSS[…]

  17. A rant on limited password fields

    May 27th 2008, 21:58

    You register for a new service, type in all your details, choose a password - and after 16 characters the password field stops accepting your input.

  18. 9-slice scaling in HTML

    May 15th 2008, 16:59

    9-slice scaling is a technique from Adobe’s Flash product line and has been adapted into Fireworks. It is used to scale certain parts of a symbol different from others when resizing the symbol (i.e. not scaling the corners at all) to make corners and borders look the same at every size of the symbol. With a little CSS and HTML this can be done in browsers, too.

  19. Up or Out: employees in IT companies quitting

    Apr 30th 2008, 21:14

    I just read an article in Alex’ Soapbox on IT professionals and their motives to quit a job at a certain company. Having just finished a 6-month-internship at a local new media agency[…]

  20. The smaller the error the bigger the bug

    Apr 26th 2008, 12:05

    Bug tracking in software development can be a pain - especially when there doesn’t seem to be any logic behind the bug.

  21. I have a dream…

    Mar 31st 2008, 23:16

    Ads - That’s how you make money on the Internet. And since everybody wants money ads are spilled all over the Internet. What if…

  22. Webmail done right

    Feb 22nd 2008, 19:25

    I recently bought a (gs) shared hosting package at mediatemple.net. I’m not going to talk about their system now, but about their webmail client, which is provided by @Mail, their mail[…]

  23. Back to Google

    Feb 6th 2008, 0:45

    Since I switched back to my domain neverpanic.de, which I lost about a year ago to a domain grabber (you can check out archive.org for my site), I’ve been waiting for Google to start[…]

  24. Jing

    Feb 3rd 2008, 17:36

    Jing is a small application allowing you to create screenshots and screencasts up to 5 minutes - nothing revolutionary here. The new thing is, that Jing is capable of storing these files[…]

  25. Keeping yourself out of your Google Analytics statistics

    Jan 31st 2008, 22:54

    Using Google Analytics and wondered how many clicks you add to your site(s) on your own? Here’s an old way to keep yourself out updated for the new Google Analytics JavaScript.

  26. GeSHify: a GeSHi syntax highlighting extension for Expression Engine

    Jan 30th 2008, 21:51

    I recently wanted to post some source code on this Expression Engine-powered blog - I thought about some syntax highlighting to improve readability. However, after asking Google and the Expression Engine forums search it turned out there had been several attempts to integrate a syntax highlighter into Expression Engine, but these plugins or extensions were either outdated or not available anymore. *sigh*

  27. Forms with WuFoo

    Dec 20th 2007, 22:08

    Do you create web forms a lot? Doing a lot of copy and paste on this task?

  28. HtmlEntities Adobe AIR widget

    Nov 27th 2007, 0:27

    Do you know the HTML Entity Character Lookup at Left Logic (leftlogic.com)? It comes in pretty handy, when you need special characters and their HTML entites, and it’s much faster than scanning through hundreds of rows of characters. I made an Adobe AIR Flash version.

  29. Cool gadgets on my desktop

    Nov 7th 2007, 17:58

    I often use my computer in the late evening and even when I turn my screen brightness down my eyes hurt after some hours. However, I don’t like to keep the whole room lighted, so I got[…]

  30. Google announces OpenSocial API

    Nov 4th 2007, 14:06

    Are you a Facebook member? Did you join MySpace for some of your friends don’t have Facebook accounts? There’s a solution, and it’s called OpenSocial.

  31. Postponing mails

    Nov 1st 2007, 21:16

    Have you ever postponed a job one of your buddies sent you via mail and forgot it? Here’s what I do.

  32. Ubuntu successfully updated

    Oct 21st 2007, 17:40

    I did it! I managed to update my Ubuntu 7.04 installation to the new 7.10 “Gutsy Gibbon”.

  33. Updating my Ubuntu Backup OS

    Oct 18th 2007, 22:52

    The guys over at Ubuntu released their new Version 7.10 (Ubuntu versions are named year.month) today. So I thought I’d upgrade my backup installation.

  34. Why I’m blogging in English

    Oct 14th 2007, 20:28

    If you know me, read my about me page, followed a link from a German site or noticed my TLD is .de you probably know I’m German. So why am I blogging in English?

  35. Experiences with ClipShare Pro 2.0

    Oct 14th 2007, 14:48

    There’s quite a market for YouTube clones, it seems. I’ve been recently working with three of these scripts, namely the commercial ClipShare Pro 2.0, the free PHPmotion and the Real Estate Video Upload Software I wrote a while ago. My experiences with these scripts are quite mixed, though.