Since everyone seems to wonder how things are going with my trainingship at ESOC/ESA in Darmstadt, I thought I’d share some impressions I had until now. There are two ‘dimensions’ or even more about a trainingship I think. The first one is not the work itself, but the organisation around it. There is this crazy [...]

I am wondering about the trackback functionality of this weblog system. I know that you can ping other URLs using dasBlog. But can I ping an URL of a dasBlog entry? I guess no although MT said the pings were successfully sent.

I am asking myself how much sense it makes to apply standard OO design to projects written in PHP, a language which lacks some essentials OO functionality in the current production release. You end up spending a lot of time to come up with a good application design, but I think the benefit is not [...]

Another weblog has rised out of the shadows of the internet. I am pleased to see that Huebi just started a brand new weblog called and available at virtual-existence.ch. Ja weisch

If you are using or intend to use nightly builds of the Mozilla Firebird Browser, I suggest you have a look at The Burning Edge to stay informed about new added features, bug fixes or regressions of the software.

Beeing forced to use Windows at work (internship), I was looking for a nice PHP and HTML editing tool. Having tried out PHPEdit for 2 weeks, I was not conviced of that piece of software, although it looks promising. Today, searching on download.com for a free HTML editor, I found an application named WebCoder. Wow, [...]

I bought an USB flash drive yesterday. It worked perfectly with my iBook using Mac OS X 10.2.6 (what a great OS), I just plugged it in and the drive mounted without installing any driver. Today at work, I had troubles getting the thing working on Windows 98 SE. After about 1 hour of endless [...]

This is the kind of stuff you discover when surfing around your company’s website after a hard day of work: After having heard so much about the Yangtze River in connection with some RDF examples during Prof. Bernstein‘s class “Dynamic & Distributed information Systems” last semester, I just thought I have to share this link [...]

Have you ever experienced this? You are sitting in your office room that has a surface of 10 square metres, there are 2 computers running (no, they have no quiet cooling system like Apple’s PowerMac G5), it’s about 37 degrees Celsius outside, about the same in the building and you are reading something that should [...]

At last I have discovered the book I was looking for since ages. It is called Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture written by Martin Fowler et al. If you were looking for a book on design patterns dealing with application-level design principles – this is it!