Archive for the ‘Rants’ Category
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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Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
An der Ecke Täubchenweg / Breite Straße stand seit Jahren ein baufälliges altes Gründerzeithaus. Es wurde bezeiten mit grünen Spannfliess abgesichert und großflächig mit einem neuen Medizinzentrum ("Medineum") beworben. Nachdem es dort aber nie wirklich voranging und zwischenzeitlich das Plakat selbst schon abgenommen wurde (die Bauherren glaubten wohl selbst nicht ...
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Sunday, September 27th, 2009
Wenn ich auf das Wahlergebnis schaue, bekomme ich schlechte Laune. Schwarz-Rot war schon schlimm, aber vier Jahre Schwarz-Gelb sind nicht gut für Deutschland. Hier nun noch einmal kurz zusammengefasst, was wir in der nächsten Zeit zu erwarten haben:
keine Fortschritte in der Bildungspolitik - jedes Land darf ...
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