The Hubris of Classic Media

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 &%/(§ stupid question? What else would you dish me up? Not to speak of the incredible brainless ads spread between your pure consumers. Be happy that TV isn’t an interactive media (yet). I would verbally kill you for that hubris. Also, If I knew you could feel it, I would punch my TV station.

Streamlining OXID’s Facebook Properties

Whenever you can reach your community over a social networking service, you should consider doing so. However, to achieve a successful result, you have to do your research in advance. In this blog post, I would like to share my experiences (and the bumps I faced) when using Facebook to connect with the OXID community.

My Impressions of Chemnitz Linux-Tage 2010

Spontaneously, I visited Chemnitzer Linux-Tage yesterday for the very first time and was really surprised. I talked to several very interesting project leaders such as Ubuntu Deutschland e.V., Communtu, YaCy, tine CRM and OTRS.

Visiting CeBIT 2010 on March 4th

I will personally visit this year’s CeBIT in Hannover on March 04th and hope to can make some interesting contacts for the OXID Community. Drop me a line if you want to see me there.

PHP 5.3.0 and Zend Guard / Zend Optimizer

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 yet available for this PHP version and so upgrading should break your application.