Archive for December, 2007

I am currently playing around with Solr. Here is a nice tutorial to get started: http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2006/08/09/solr-indexing-xml-with-lucene-andrest.html A more indepth article from IBM: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-solr1/ http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/j-solr2/

Here is a list of interesting things you can do on a linux command line. I will continue this list as I come across new ones: find /var/files/000 -name *.xml | xargs rm -f Delete all XML-files in all subdirectories of /var/files/000 ls -laR | wc -l Count all files under the current directory. Be [...]

Wiki about patterns in PHP: http://www.patternsforphp.com Article about OO and patterns in PHP5: http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=381922 The last resource also contains lots of interesting chapters from current web development books of various topics.

I came across this interesting article by Peter Norvig – Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years. Here are the keypoints: “Write several significant programs, and learn from your successes and failures.” “Work with an experienced programmer and understand what it is like to live in that environment.” “In 3 days you might be able to [...]

On my network I have a Buffalo Terastation as network-share for backups. Today I figured out how to mount it on another Linux-box (Debian Etch) so I could do file operations directly on my backup. The following worked out for me: Created dir /mnt/terastation2 Added the following line to /etc/fstab //TERASTATION2/SHARE /mnt/terastation2 smbfs username=marco,password=,uid=marco,gid=businex,dmask=707,fmask606 And [...]

I came across some nice little explanations of the following web-topics: Wikis BLOGs Social Bookmarking Social Networking RSS Feeds Google Docs [23.03.2008] New ones added: Twitter Online Photo Sharing PR Web OpenID Wet Paint Wikis Enerjy For Java Development Google’s My Location for Mobile Maps

If things dont work out the way your boss/organization desires, you are in need of a new mission statement! Use this tool to generate it for free: http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/games/career/bin/ms.cgi

In search of a simple CAPTCHA solution I came across the following tutorial (German). I modified it slightly and packaged it into a neat little demo including PHP code for the form and the images. It creates CAPTCHA images using GD like this: Download: Simple CAPTCHA demo for PHP Original Tutorial: http://www.stoppt-den-spam.info/webmaster/captcha-tutorial/index.html

Guy Kawasaki on important stages towards successful innovation. http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail1867.html

One of my customers wanted to have spoken text on his webpage. Having no idea about Flash & Co. I found this neat solution: Use a WordPress-Plugin to do the job. Tutorial: http://www.macloo.com/examples/audio_player/ Download necessary stuff: http://www.1pixelout.net/download/audio-player.zip MP3 for testing: Tusch!

Eben Moglen on our current relationship with technology: http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail1897.html

Sorry for not posting for a while… Among many other things I have been busy setting up my (first) retail venture. Take a look at: http://retail.businex.de What you can find there is the tip of a neat iceberg – me acting as an amateur model wearing clothes of the first lable I took on stock [...]