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Flattr, a great idea, a great video, great people behind

Flattr, a great idea, a great video, great people behind

Flattr is exactly what I dreamed of when I wrote my post about the donation-button-dilemma on open-source projects. Flattr, by the creators of the pirate bay, is a service that let’s you specify an amount you want to spend monthly, I don’t know what they plan, but let’s say 10€, and you can flattr any [...]

bored summary of the past day. / 750words, 1buckapp, java coding tipps

bored summary of the past day. / 750words, 1buckapp, java coding tipps

So, on this very exceptionally snowy day here in Stuttgart, i decided to procrastinate a bit and do some fun stuff. Because going outside would have been at least life-threatening, I decided that the most exciting adventure would be to clean the kitchen take a panorama image out of my 3 living room windows. Here [...]

Finally: ActiveResource with Service Discovery and Authentication

Yay. In case you’re looking for a release, there is none. Not yet, we are maybe going to release one, but it’s a question of time rather than a lack of good will.
Why. In my current position, I am building a set of applications ( most of them rails based ) communicating with each other [...]

Password Management, 2nd approach

A while ago I developed a simple demo of an application able to log a user on to his several social homes. Feedback was poor, users are just not willing to save their passwords anywhere else but in their brains. This is funny since most users I talked to ( except some nerds ) stick [...]

Still working on usabilitizing the Web: ideas, cont’d

Hello, today I continue my list of ideas which would make the Web and Computers in General way more easier and safer to use. Although it won’t change anything, I just want to make you think about it and let me know your opinion.
I’m still a bit frustrated that there is nothing like a general [...]

A real open-source, usable, photoshop replacement?

Good morning, folks! Now I’m back in germany, still busy getting used to all this luxury again, including my Ubuntu-desktop. I also have Windows installed, but for some reason i prefer Ubuntu. Anyway, I’m really missing a real, free and usable Photoshop replacement here. For me, GIMP is just a nice little tool enabling one [...]

Improving readers user experience by adding links to related external blogs

Everyone is used to Google’s AdSense system offering relevant ads instead of providing static banners. This system not only affects the acceptance of advertising on blogs, but also enhances the user experience. Being able to access relevant products or content by one click is certainly a much more attractive and modern way of offering ads. [...]

Improving your Software efficiently: Talking to users.

Yes, I know, it sounds very, very odd. Users, bah, just keeping everyone from doing really useful stuff. Users, always finding bugs that turn out to be not-so-well implemented features. Users, not understanding the big ideas powering the programs we develop and the time we spend. Users, still using that outdated 5-year-old version of a [...]

Jumblesale: A better platform for selling your stuff

Selling your private stuff has become quite tricky lately, in contrary to ( fill in any web-related stuff here ). It was always my intention to sell things i don’t need any more in a simple way somewhere. In a simple way. I just can’t consider eBay simple. I don’t want to create fancy custom-layouts. [...]

Whats next – Sharer: Better File Sharing.

Good morning. It seems I have to stay wake so i don’t oversleep. Oversleeping would mean something like missing a flight, not really desirable. 
Staying wake always makes me do weird stuff in the middle of the night. That is, reading all feeds I recently ignored, taking care of stuff that has to be taken care [...]