On Wednesday, I’ll be giving a presentation on Apple’s Game Center at the local CocoaHeads Group, here in Karlsruhe. Game Center is Apple’s social gaming network, that lets you invite…

As the university days on Devoxx are nearly finished I’d like to summarize some of the more interesting talks that happened during the first two days. Marc already wrote some…

Employees of Synyx are going to Devoxx in Antwerp since three years. I’ve never been here before but my colleagues have always reportet that they loved the conference. So this…

It took me some time to figure it out so why not sharing it with the world? Apache allows you to add basic auth to parts of your site using…

CmsShell is a neat tool to access the OpenCms VFS from the command line. This can be extremely useful when your system can’t be accessed anymore using the web interface…

Some days ago I came along a problem with our beloved build tool Maven2. Since this was the first real problem with the tool I could not solve or find…

Trister Büroalltag eines Informatikers: Großraumbüro, Monitor neben Monitor, Schreibtisch neben Schreibtisch, Fachlektüre und Kundenmappen stapeln sich in den Ablagen. Karges Licht von Leuchtstoffröhren bestimmen den Arbeitsalltag. Ist dies Vorurteil oder…

Back in 2003, I’ve been working as trainee at a big webhosting company. Back in the days I’ve been really keen on the upcoming 2.6 linux kernel series, and compiled…

Just create a new file like “vim leo”. Insert the following script code: #!/bin/sh t(){ while [ -n '$1' ]; do T=/tmp/$$.html lynx -source 'http://dict.leo.org/?search=$1'| grep results >$T w3m -dump…