A while ago, I asked my nine year old "Body, do you actually know what it means to have a skeleton in your closet?" "Nope", he ansered. "Nah well, that means somebody owns a very sore secret. Maybe within his family" I whispered. "Oh alright, daddy: You mean if Grandma is actually a male person, don't ye?"
Yet another annoying _incident_ next to my place a couple of minutes before at RTL (kinda German TV station): "Win 5K EURs by answering the following question: For which desease a mosquito can be a vector a) Malaria b) the swells" ... Dear RTL guys, who do you think I am? Do you really think I am stupid enough to call your bl**dy expensive extra number and answer your &%/(§ [Read more...]
Whenever you can reach your community over a social network service, you as the responsible person for community building in your company may consider to enter it. The outcome might become really promising but you have to do certain researches before. In this blog post, I would like to share my experience and the bumps connected to entering Facebook for the OXID community. Analyzing the status [Read more...]
More or less spontaneously, I decided to go to "Chemnitzer Linux-Tage" for the first time, the probably second biggest Linux event in Germany, and was really surprised: Not only Linux geeks but a very mixed up audience of Germans and Non-Germans, developers, administrators and interested people in any kind of open source software found together in a very familiar and comfortable atmosphere. In [Read more...]
I will personally visit this year's CeBIT in Hannover on March 04th and hope to make some interesting contacts for the OXID Community. Drop me a line if you want to see me there. Thanks Erik for the lift! :-)
Some days ago, I accidentally found the Russian search engine Yandex and encountered some online stores based on OXID eShop Community Edition in Russian language while exploring it. I contacted three store owners in Russian (yep, I did learn Russian, but didn't use it for a long time) and asked if they would like to contribute their language files for community use. I got immediate answers from [Read more...]
If you are using Zend Guard to encrypt your PHP applications you probably don't want to update your server environment to PHP 5.3.0: Zend Guard (for encoding your PHP files) and Zend Optimizer (for decoding your PHP files) are not available yet for this PHP version and so upgrading should break your application. A discussion about this subject is going on in this forum [Read more...]
The past few days, dev.oxidforge.org thingy was launched. We are still looking for a proper name for it (vote at http://www.oxid-esales.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3401, need to be logged in as a community member!). Now "OXID developer network - ODN" is about to win that race and I personally like it very much. I already requested an additional subdomain like odn.oxidforge.org for it. Like [Read more...]
Tomorrow morning I will officially and proudly announce our collaboration and development platform available at http://dev.oxidforge.org. The software basis is FusionForge, a GForge fork. This platform seems to be ideal for team-work on committing code, language extensions, localizations, themes and much more. There is just one thing we are still suffering from: How the heck shall we call that [Read more...]
musicgate, another forum mate, had an awesome idea collecting all OXID shops running opening up an appropriate group at the social bookmark platform http://www.mister-wong.de. This idea went on like giving discounts and / or coupons to all of you brothers in arms. For a first, just let's collect. Feel free to register yourself and to present your OXID shop in this group! Unfortunately, Mister [Read more...]