Author Archives: joachim

MacBook Image

Posted on May 11, 2006 by joachim

macbook_front.jpg After having seen lots of fake MacBook pictures, I thought I’d do one myself 🙂

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Upgrading to Ruby On Rails 1.1

Posted on March 29, 2006 by joachim

There is that little web app at work which was based on Rails 1.0 and uses the upload progress indicator. This feature was marked as experimental in the Rails 1.0 API documentation. After upgrading to Rails 1.1 following the simple … Continue reading →

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iWork ’06 – First Impressions

Posted on January 31, 2006 by joachim

Today, I received my copy of iWork ’06 and installed it right away. The size of the install DVD is only about 1.7 GB, so that’s way less than iLife ’06 which weights over 6 GB! The new features are … Continue reading →

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The status bar now shows current symbol

Posted on November 10, 2005 by joachim

Since ages I have been waiting for this feature: And finally, the function menu – a.k.a. symbol menu – has been implemented in my current Text/Code-Editor called TextMate. It’s like christmas in july 🙂

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Flock

Posted on October 23, 2005 by joachim

After reading the news about Flock on CNET News, I installed the social browser based on Firefox. Because I wanted to check out all its features, I signed up for a del.icio.us account since I already had all other web … Continue reading →

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Dashboard Annoyance

Posted on October 22, 2005 by joachim

The Dashboard Widget Manager Apple introduced in Mac OS X 10.4.2 is nice but I also think they made it less obvious how to find and install new Widgets. Before Mac OS X 10.4.2 there was a button called “more … Continue reading →

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Total Integration

Posted on October 16, 2005 by joachim

What do you think of it? I created a special theme for WordPress, so this blog fits visually into my website. As for the site navigation bar on the left, it’s a small PHP include directive which displays the site … Continue reading →

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Good Beatles Cover

Posted on October 8, 2005 by joachim

Yesterday, I discovered a cover song from the Beatles classic “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” performed by the The Drowners on the iTunes Music Store. While this song is nice, I don’t like most of the other songs on the … Continue reading →

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New snapmania release!

Posted on October 4, 2005 by joachim

We have just released a new version of snapmania which now features a blog posting module for individual images or web albums. Guess who developed this feature?– Oh, and I forgot: Perl still sucks!

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Installing WWW::Blog::Metadata

Posted on August 28, 2005 by joachim

If you think you can just install the CPAN Perl module WWW::Blog::Metadata (v.0.02) by typing perl -MCPAN -e ‘install WWW::Blog::Metadata’ you would be wrong. Here is a quick tutorial to install the module in spite of all obstacles: Install HTML::Tagset … Continue reading →

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