Case: Build a dynamic template from a PSD file including graphical text headlines and navigation. The PSD was originally built on Mac containing Mac Type 1 fonts, which I could not use on my Windows machine to edit the text in the layout. After a bit of searching I found a tool to do the [...]
Archive for June, 2008
Inspired by the post by Jeremy Meyer “Why it’s better to be lazy” I discovered an interesting conceptual view on how military staff was classified by General von Moltke’s Value Matrix: “There are only four types of officer. First, there are the lazy, stupid ones. Leave them alone, they do no harm…Second, there are the [...]
“Nieder mit IT” von Pigor & Eichhorn http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTorchdVl5c “Rrrache für die gebrochenen Versprechen von IT!”
On the command line if you close a console with a running job, you kill the job. This is different with the tool ‘screen’, where you can attach and detach from a ‘screen’ without terminating it. You can even start a job in a screen on another machine, detatch, travel somewhere else and re-attach to [...]
Procrastination: http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=4P785j15Tzk From ‘Tales of mere Existence’ by Lev Yilmaz
Case: I had many .sql-files from a backup containing one table-dump each which should be loaded into another MySql-DB. Simply using phpMyAdmin would not have worked with regard to the size of the tables. So I was thinking about a way to do it on the commandline under Linux. A foreach-solution would have caused me [...]
In search of a tool to debug client-server communication of a client’s SOAP webservice, I found SOAPUI: http://www.soapui.org Click the button “Click here to webstart now” on the page to open the application through Java Web Start from your browser. How to test your webservice: File / New WSDL Project… Enter URL of your WSDL, [...]
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