Out of Context
July 28, 2008
This quote made my monday morning!
Tags: xp, programming, software development
Running, Satellite and phpFlickr
April 5, 2008
Like many others I am using Flickr as a CMS for a website using Satellite. Unfortunatly Satellite offers no support for authenticated calls which I need now to get private pictures on the website. So I need to adjust Satellite myself, which is challenging, considering the fact that I know php only marginally. But then a programming language is a programming language is a programming language (I know that there are differences and everybody has his/her favorite, but I am not going into this). The documentation on Flickr Services is ok, but not extremely helpful. phpFlickr offered the most promising help, especially the authentication tool was very helpful (didn’t work with Safari though, Firefox was ok). phpFlickr also takes care of the ordering of the parameters and the creation of the api signature for you. So know the only task remaining is to make Satellite work together with phpFlickr… If I get it running I let you know here.
O, yes nearly forgot the running. Joined the Birslauf today. Was a lot of fun!
Flock
March 20, 2008
I just discovered Flock, the social web browser. That’s how they advertise. They offer an offline/online blog post plugin, which I am trying out right now.
Looks promising, but need yet to try out the features.
Updated: After my first euphoria I realised that Flock is not particularly new. But what I like so far is that it can manage both of my blogs. Both Safari and Firefox got troubled by my two accounts on wordpress and I often ended up posting stuff to the wrong blog. Dito with Flickr. The Blog Editor is simple, but enough, it is easy to post things quickly.
Computer Feelings
February 5, 2008
This post pretty much sums up my feeling about switching to a mac (a bit more than a year ago). The only thing which really annoys me is that the horrible delay in porting the JDK to Mac. That I consider nearly an issue for Java Developers. Yet if you look at Java conferences, nearly everybody has a Mac
Project Management, Children and Borders
August 9, 2007
A thought after a meeting I was attending today.
Do you know the situation, where the release date for your software project gets closer, you are already working overtime and actually you don’t really see how you manage. And even better nobody in the team can actually tell what the chances are. You just know that everybody needs to work even harder. And you do it because you don’t want (the project) to fail. And if you succeed you are proud. Even if you say that the next project need to be different.
But it won’t.
When having children that’s one of the first thing you learn (or you suffer): As long as they don’t fail they do not change. As long as you don’t let them experience the consequences of their behaviour, they don’t stop to misbehave. As long as a no is not a no they don’t believe you. And the longer you wait the harder it is to teach it.
As long as we comply with unrealistic planning, work overtime, get the impossible done things won’t change. Not the next time, not ever. In the long shot not releasing on time once can lead to more satisfying projects. If (and only if) the lessons are learned.
First conference talk
April 24, 2007
After having given my first talk on a Java developer conference today I think I finally should start blogging for real, not only in my head. Talking at the conference was quite some fun, but I was astonished that there were not more questions. May be Germans just are shy?
I am attending a open discussion now, let’s see if they are more talkative there!
persillie 