After publishing my last blog post about switching to Ubuntu, I took a short break for a while. I had a few problems: I couldn't get the VPN running as my company was using a proprietary protocol. I couldn't find a good Exchange client replacement under Linux. My company had bought me an iPhone and iTunes was not available on Linux. I came up with a solution to bypass these problems. I [Read more...]
At the beginning of this year, I wrote about the incompatibility of Zend Guard Loader (formerly known as Zend Optimizer) with PHP 5.3.x. Although PHP 5.3.0 was published over a year ago (November 1, 2009), there is no solution for Zend Optimizer or Zend Guard yet, and Zend Server doesn't properly decrypt files encoded by Zend Guard. This has been a problem for OXID eShop PE and EE customers, [Read more...]
A few days ago, on October 26th, we celebrated the annual OXID Partner Day. More than 150 people working at our partner agencies attended the interesting presentations and workshops held on that day. One of the most interesting and popular ones was called "The Power of the Community" (link leads to a German PDF with the handout), and was held by my friend Sandro Groganz. Over the last few [Read more...]
Daily, there are more and more new online stores using OXID eShop. Some of these shops are supposed to be available in just one language (e.g. German), nevertheless they tend to forget to disable English, which is enabled as an additional language in OXID eShop by default. This issue rears its ugly head if for example a browser's standard language has been configured in English and the shop is [Read more...]
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...]