What is the biggest fear of users in the web?
Spending some time for research, I found out that people most fear the transparency in the web. At the same time, this doesn’t prevent them from publishing private details without thinking in the blink of an eye.
So I was curious how much information really is accessible. [...]
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Social networks like Facebook are going to change the world drastically. In my opinion they already did now.
Think about they way people stay in touch with each other. Once up on a time we used to have a handful of good friends, like 5 or so plus we knew the people they hung out with. [...]
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As you probably want to integrate the durchblick app in your current server infrastructure or the web you might want to have Apache2 support. Phusion created a fantastic apache mod that enables you to simply deploy rails applications with a default apache2 setup – the mod_passenger.
The installation itself is very easy and well documented on [...]
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I recently set up the Sierra Partyfloss Website because I’m so excited about the upcoming festival summer. Great people, great music and great weather.
I’m also going to present my new EP that I just signed at the Ministry of Sound Germany.
Tickets
Hurry up, the tickets will be sold out soon:
http://www.sierra-partyfloss.de
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I recently discovered something really weird about Facebook.
I was at a friend’s and he was about to sign up for Facebook. As soon as he finished the sign up procedure he was asked to be friends with some guys he truly knew in real life.
How can that be? He was totally new to Facebook and [...]
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I’m so proud to announce this semesters work - my new version of Durchblick!
The first thing to say is that lot’s of things have changed now. The app completely moved into the browser because I think that is the future. So I completely moved from Java to Ruby on Rails and I didn’t regret it for [...]
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As Cloud Computing is the leading technology buzzword today – and when you say leading in combination with the web, you must also say Google – I simply had to take chances trying it out!
So I decided to develop a yet simple, but cool application that let’s you enter certain memorizable events, telling you when [...]
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During my internship at the IBM Lab in Böblingen Ansgar Schmidt and I developed a Facebook integration for Lotus Connections. It simply let’s you link your Connections profile to the Facebook profile and pulls data out of that. And all that happens in less than 25 seconds. Luis Benitez sitting in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico posted about [...]
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My heart beats for design. We want good design to be visually attractive and useable. No arguing about that. And now that the time has come where fancy web applications are increasingly taking over the desktop applications we get problems with websites looking like websites and not applications. So what do we counter?
Bitmap graphics is [...]
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So let’s just dive right into rails. You surely have heard of that new, block busting technology and now you’ll learn much about the rails magic.
One more thing I want to say is, that the rails approach often is different to the development processes you might know. While I can’t force you to accept them [...]
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Currently I’m developing a active record generator on a Apache2 – PHP Environment. I’m using the new PHP Data Objects as a database layer class, but in default configuration Leopard only supports sqlite for PDO. So what you have to do is compile the pdo_mysql extension and add it to your php.ini, restart server, and [...]
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Mailing in general has to change. Not only the format mail itself but the mail behavior. I came up with this after cleaning my mail account, realizing that above 97% of my mail are dispensable, due to being processed already or due the sake of simple needlessness.
So let’s go back in history a little, why [...]
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I’m really happy to announce my next EP Release, the Stockholm Mood EP on OBG Records. Inspired by my trip to Stockholm last October I couldn’t wait to get back in my studio and go for it. The Release consists of four tracks:
A1 – Psychos (Original Mix)
A2 – Ultraschmog (Original Mix)
B1 – Stockholm Mood (Original [...]
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In my last article I wrote that the big but of developing flash with the freeware compiler mxmlc from the Flex SDK is, that there is no tracing.
Well, there’s still not, but there is a fantastic tool called Alcon. It is written for the AIR, so it’s completely platform independent. That’s really, really cool. So how [...]
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How to compile ActionScript 3.0 with the free mxmlc Flex SDK Compiler on Mac OS X and Linux or Windows
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Oh yes! I’m so glad to report that finally my app is finished. If one can say that, finished. As always the last 10% are in need of 90% of the time.
I also wrote a manual for new users, that are not familiar with the idea behind the app. I haven’t translated it yet as the [...]
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My latest project is about managing documents. Not that i would have problems in doing this, but others have. What i discovered is, that many people that are not as familiar with computers as i am have problems in understanding the whole file hierarchy thing. Although the ideas of the tree structure is not new to no [...]
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Right now I faced another Problem, doing Java apps with Swing. Well actually no problem, but when the size of the app rises you, or at least I, am getting confused ending up with a whole bunch of Java classes with no idea where to put what.
So I started to look beyond my own backyard [...]
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