Archive for January, 2008

Sometimes when I have 5 minutes for myself without thinking about ongoing projects, todos or technologies, obvious things come to my mind. It happened as I took a look at my opened webbrowser (Firefox) and wondered why my homepage actually is www.google.com. Firefox has Google search built in anyway. So I changed it to: http://www.digg.com/search?section=all&s=software+development+web [...]

I came accross a nice blog with lots of cool links to layout related things. Start at http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/07/17/exploring-design-outstanding-start-pages/ and also visit links like ’50 Beautiful CSS-Based Web-Designs’ etc. in the category section. ——— To research for layouts, there is also a very good book series: The ‘Web Design Index’ comes out once a year. It [...]

Today I had some more major hardware failures… After it was clear that I would be fixing things all day long, I took a deep breath and fired up Peter Dunston’s Website to relax and listen to good music while I was cleaning up the mess. What happened: The switch connecting my dev-servers with my [...]

Happy new year! Some of you may remember this image and the story around it: http://blog.t14g.de/index.php/archives/63 It happened again after a night of building an index (Solr/Lucene). This time the destruction of the filesystem looked like this: I have learnt my lesson and from now on I keep a harddisk-image of the installed system with [...]