Archive for the ‘Rants’ Category
Monday, February 21st, 2011
Ich bin eigentlich gegen jede Form von Gewalt, egal ob sie von links oder rechts kommt. Nach diesen schockierenden Bildern vom letzten Wochenende aber rücke ich von meiner Position ab.
Unbelehrbaren Menschen muss Einhalt geboten werden - einer Horde von etwa 200 wildgewordenen Nazis, die 15 Minuten lang ein Wohnhaus in ...
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Wednesday, November 24th, 2010
Today I completed my ScrumMaster certification. After the two days with Joseph Pelrine in early November they finally send me some login for their website scrumalliance.com, offered a short web-based test (which you couldn't really fail) and tada - now I can call myself "Certified ScrumMaster".
So everything seemed to look ...
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Thursday, June 24th, 2010
For a couple of years now, one of the easiest, yet very powerful anti-spam techniques is sender verification. Often spam is sent from bogus email addresses which contain random strings and are therefor also hard to blacklist. In this process the receiving mail server simply checks the From: header of ...
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Friday, May 7th, 2010
Auf dem Bild (Quelle: AP) ist zu sehen, wie Abgeordnete des Deutschen Bundestages am heutigen Freitag zur Abstimmung über die 22,4 Mrd. Euro Kredit-Nothilfe für Griechenland schreiten. Ich möchte gar nicht über Sinn und Unsinn dieser Kredite sprechen, nein, ich wundere mich ganz konkret über die in diesem Bild aufgefangene ...
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Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010
Seriously, fuck it. Not only for it long-standing inconsistencies in the "user API", no, I've rarely seen a piece of source code crap with such a low comment / code ratio.
What I'm trying to do? Debugging SoapClient from ext/soap and figure out why it ignores my typemap. Yes, there is ...
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Monday, March 1st, 2010
Just in case you wonder why a simple sudo zypper install sometimes loads dozens or more unneeded, but possibly related packages, its not a bug, its a feature!
While Debian by default only hints you to these additional packages during the install phase, openSUSE installs them all by default. Try it ...
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Friday, February 19th, 2010
A hail to all the twitter users posting "I'm currently at XXX" status messages, otherwise useful information like those on pleaserobme.com would not be possible.
Darling, do you happen to know where I've put my lock pick in...?
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Friday, January 29th, 2010
...and especially not if you get the impression that the dump will afterwards be readable by the doctrine:data-load command of symfony.
It was a costly lesson today when I tried to reimport a dump of a couple of Sympal tables. One of them, the one which models the menu items, has ...
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Friday, January 15th, 2010
My latest Symfony project uses Doctrine as ORM, which is considered to be a lot better than Propel by many people...
Well, not by me. Doctrine seems to have a couple of very good concepts, amongst them built-in validators, a powerful query language, and last but not least, an easy schema ...
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Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
I sold a couple of things on eBay recently and went ahead to print labels for the packages on DHL.de. The user interface is clean and understandable until there, though they validate (or rather invalidate) my bank code for a GiroPay payment a bit late and even with a misguiding ...
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