Gravatar Mac Address Book Support Updated for Snow Leopard
Because the bundle somehow didn’t work for snow leopard, now it does, and you can get it here. of course . So basically, your mac adressbook is now able to get the gravatars again.. hrhr-
Tag Archives: improvingtheworld
Business ideas: Which is the right one?
Honestly, I don’t know. But from what I can tell, the ones solving problems people have, even if they were not aware before, are the ones working. The other ideas usually don’t. What are problems worth solving?
I’d define a problem worth solving as something that has 3 attributes: It is persistent, in a sense that [...]
Donation-Buttons not working, thinking about other ways to collect Payment for Open Source Projects
So finally I’m starting to write something that will certainly end up being tagged as ’simpleyeteffective’ or ‘improvingtheworld’, hopefully both is true.
There is to date no working revenue model and system for people contributing to open source projects. First of all I want to clearify that from my point of view, it’s not about money [...]
Web Development: The controller, the view, a pain, it’s true.
I’m currently heavily involved in developing a rather huge application for the web. Nowadays, there is a certain illusion that frameworks, be it the Java EE using Spring or Rails and it’s friends simplify development and make it actually fun developing for the web.
At least for me, this fun suddenly ends when it comes to [...]
Rails Plugin: Superdumper, helps you visualize your database schema
You know the problem. You are agile like hell. You don’t bother doing complicated diagrams to show somebody what you’re doing. That’s okay. But sometimes, you need to show off what you’ve been struggling with, and if that day comes, this little rakefile can save some time.
Simply , Unpack this file ( tar bz btw [...]
The need for web-development certification
Good day. I need to distract myself from trying to reanimate a Windows-PC. Quite frustrating and pretty unsuccessful so far, but let’s see. Why a certification of the abilities of a web-developer? Well, there are plenty of good reasons. Let’s get into them.
First of all, everyone doing something seriously should be able to get a [...]
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 [...]
Test drive Piwik Analytics Software
Finally, I found the time to install Piwik, an open-source Google Analytics lookalike. I’ve chosen to maintain a solution besides analyzing server stats to track traffic. Why? By using a snippet that executes some code, it is ensured that most spiders are simply not counted, careless of how well they are disguised.
Back to Piwik: [...]
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 [...]
Character Encoding for the rest of us: UTF-8
I spent a fair part of my past life not understanding character encodings in its entirety. While this was totally unimportant in past times, when e.g. a dataformat or file was written or created by the same program reading it, most likely not crossing country or language borders, nowadays it is. Very. So what is [...]
