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Note to me: Hotspot access via iPhone
14. Jan
A (german) info on how to activate hotspot access via iPhone with T-Mobile germany:
http://www.familie-splett.de/t-mobile-hotspot-aktivieren-bei-iphone-vertrag/
Searching & stacking vs. ordering
10. Apr
Frank Fischer explained in his blog that he’s a searching guy. It was in a article about taking the common “desktop environment” to the web and whether it’s a good idea.
But then he said something about common ways to organize your work. Talking about files on your computer you could sort everything in thousands of different folders. You also could put everything in one folder and let the environment search for you.
What is the flipside of letting the computer search for you? Perhaps it does not find everything. That’s the main reason why I don’t like sharepoint portal server. During my training on the job I had to write a document about the project I worked on. It was a ZVT 700 cash card terminal interface. I put that document in a sharepoint portal server and forgot about it.
About one and a half year later someone needed that document. Well, I knew about the auther of that document (obviously I checked it in), I knew the title of that document and well – the worst thing happened: Even as I tried to list ALL documents checked in by me (and that was not a lot) exactly THAT document I looked for was not listet. I looked through the whole structure of the sharepoint server for about 4 hours to find that document. Guess what? I never used that server again.
So what if you are searching for something special and it is not listed when your computer searches?
If you have a rough structure of folders and stick to a naming scheme of your documents that will make things easier. There is nothing that hinders you to let your mashine do the search work for you, but if it fails, then you helped yourself to find it by yourself a lot faster.
Web 1.0 for the win!
09. Mrz
Trackback to FrankFi’s wiew of the world:
With Dynamic Silverlight dynamic languages like Ruby and Python make their way into Silverlight 2. Not a very stylish start indeed, but that project page is a total winner on usability: No Screenreader problems, no navigation problems, no problems at all. I like pages that are accessible. I like that page. That is User Experience at its best 
Shopping “tour”
09. Mrz
I was shopping today. But not on a shopping tour, but I shopped tours
First one is two tickets for the “farewell & goodbye” tour of “Fury in the Slaugtherhouse” in Munich in April. I love this band, especially the older songs. I saw them live two or three times and I’m glad to be able to see them once again.
Second one is the 10 year tour of the original “Lord of the Dance” show, when they come to Ulm in october.
Third is two tickets for BAP on their “Radio Pandora” album tour at the end of the year, also in Munich.
You see, I like live events
EKON Spring 2008 – WMI Track
28. Feb
I just finished my track about the Windows Management Instrumentation. It was a very funny track indeed: We just had community members of the Delphi-PRAXiS in the audience. How cool is that?
Here are the slides and code samples: WMI Slides and code samples
EKON Spring 2008 – MVVM Talk
28. Feb
Yesterday I had my first talk at the EKON Spring. It was all about patterns, concentrated on MVC, MVP, MVVM and some underlying patterns like Observer, Strategy and Command.
Here you can download the slides and a C# WPF Codesample:
MVVM talk slides and code sample
EKON Spring in Frankfurt
23. Feb
I’m going to hold two talks on the EKON 2008 Spring Edition in Frankfurt next week.
The first one will be about the MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) pattern, introduced with WPF, the second one will show the audience how to use the WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) from Delphi.
That’s the first time I’m going to talk to a real public audience – until now I only had more or less private trainings with up to 20 people. I just hope, my nerves are going to widthstand that new sort of stress
Some kilos lost on the way
23. Feb
I know, actually it won’t be of any interest for you, but I’m somewhat proud of it:
Since I started training (cardio and strength) two weeks before, I lost 3 kilos. And that’s with letting out two training sessions due to a conference I visited in Frankfurt last week. That didn’t allow me to go to the training center in Karlsruhe.
I will have the same problem next week (only training on Monday, but not on wednesday and friday), but I will compensate that by not eating that much on the conference and I will stay in Karlsruhe throughout the next Weekend and that will mean I can go to training on Friday evening and sunday.
About scratch lotteries and cameras – London
30. Dez
Blogging from Comfort Inn Kensignton, London.
First thing to mention was Ryanair. Actually I knew that drinks on board are extremely expensive, and that those cheap airlines tend to strange behaviour. But that they start to sell scratch lottery tickets on the flight was new to me.
Second thing worth to mention is that here in London you can’t walk a single meter without being tracked down by cameras all the way. It’s said it’s for security, but I really doubt that having a camera pointed at him will prevent a suicide bomber to kill himself and other people. It’s not comfortable knowing to be observed all the time. I actually hope that we don’t get this way of ‘big Brother’ in germany too.
More about London when I find the time…
Sunshine in this time…
03. Dez
Well, it’s quite dark out there. Out of the window i’d wanted to say. And.. well.. yes, it’s dark in my life too at the moment. But that’s nothing to really worry about.
The darker it gets for you, the more important get the persons out there. The people, that seem to care about you, that care about your feelings. And especially the people, that help you to cope with your problems. Even if it’s only by listening to you and playing some music.
I want to dedicate this post to someone special. Someone I don’t really know (yet), but a person, that is so amiable as one can be. She contacted me in a chat community I just wanted to have a short look at. She offered her help in the very first minute, and she’s so very warmhearted. She chatted with me, played some songs for me (her hobby is being a host on a web radio) and made me feel not so alone again.
I want to say thank you, Petra. Thank you for just being there, being you, spending some of your valuably time for talking to me. And thank you for your so lovely words accompanied by the knuddels rose. By now, just after a few days, you are allready a very special person to me and I want you to know that. You make the sun shine again. You’re a real friend and you are very special. Thank you so very much.