Archive for the ‘Private’ Category

Show exit status of the last executed command in ZSH prompt

We recently stumbled over the problem that we want to know the exit status of the last command that was executed in our ZSH. Well the obvious thing is echoing $?, but as we need this quite often we want to have it in our right prompt. Googling around a little bit, we found the [...]

A really unfriendly and not so fair approach to GIT vs. Mercurial

Okay, this is one of the posts I wanted to since about 1 year, but now, nearly 2 years after the first git vs. Mercurial blog post I finally made it to actually write a second time about this topic. A first notice: I won’t cover bazaar. I personally hate it with passion and think [...]

Moving to WordPress

When I started blogging, serendipity was my favorite blog system. It was faster and cleaner to me than WordPress. Also WordPress was known for being a insecure at that time.
Well now after 2 years of blogging I took another look at a WordPress and I must admit that I’m impressed by the clean admin interface [...]

Seven things

As Johannes tagged me, here are my 7 things:

I leared PHP because I wanted to write a form mailer for a website.
When I was 13 years old, I spend a lot of time on a city network called RivalNet, causing a telephone bill of 600DM. There were no flatrates at that time.
I studied analytical philosophy [...]

Music Industry: Failed!

I really like to buy CDs. Actually if I hear a few good songs from an album, I usually buy it, but this time it get’s really hard. I want to buy “Tales of the Forgotten Melodies” from Wax Taylor. In fact, it is not available in germany. I mean: WTF. It is a damn [...]

Agiles Development

Unser aktuelles Projekt wird agil entwickelt. Wir sind so agil, dass wir unsere Specs bekommen, wenn wir den Code schon committen haben. Gleichzeitig müssen wir auch noch refactoren, damit die Specs mit dem alten Code können. Macht ja nichts. Nur dumm, dass wir refactoren, fixen und releasen gleichzeitig müssen. Natürlich haben wir dabei auch interne [...]

New Server

I finally moved the blog to my new vrserver. The server is running on a debian sarge with backports installed and php 5.2 with hardened patches and suhosin extension installed. Mysql is version 4.1.

Server Umzug und Domainabschaltung

Da ich auf einen neuen Server umziehe wird ab dem 31.01.2007 die Domain sqlbackup.net nicht mehr erreichbar sein. Die Adresse blog.experimentalworks.net wird jedoch übernommen, und mein Blog wird darüber erreichbar sein.

iTunes Remote Control

I was looking for an iTunes Remote Control to control my iTunes thats running on my Mac from my Linux desktop. As I don’t find a nice solution on sourceforge.org (In fact there are several projects target on that issue, but no release and often there was just an initial commit) I wrote a simple [...]

Bob Ross

First I wanted to code, but then I realized that I don’t have the right key for the office, where I put my laptop yesterday, so I grabbed my Wacom and started painting on my second pc. Pretty nice, as I didn’t have the time to paint since months.