On March 22nd, last Sunday, our new baby, my fourth son, gave us the honor of his presence on earth. Mom and baby are well :-) I should have informed you immediately but all my other boys before were in time or some days late - just this little man decided to be born a bit early... So I started my planned parental leave unexpectedly early, and I tell you: I was really busy in the last week [Read more...]
Yes, the rumours are true: @Hebsacker, AKA Raimund (Ray) Lang-Pantic, got a new job a while ago and it turned out that he'll have no more time for us at the OXID forums. Bummer, isn't it. I'd like to take this chance to thank him for his great job he was doing for years: perfect moderation, understanding the community quite well, dealing with fighting cocks, determining spam (quite challenging [Read more...]
In the last week, the first OXID user group meeting Leipzig took place at the office rooms of our dear partners pixi* Software. As announced, we came together in order to organize things first like topics to talk about within the next half year, how often and where to meet etc. Here are the results: 13 attendees (some of the registered excused as being ill, guests like Dennis from NRW [Read more...]
I'm happy to announce that the very first European Community Leadership Summit (abbr: CLS) will take place on May 9th during the LinuxTag in Berlin. Community Leadership Summit originally was conceived back in 2009 by Jono Bacon, the community manager for the global Ubuntu community and author of "The Art of Community" by O'Reilly, and he has organized it each year since now in Portland, [Read more...]
Dear friends, actually I wanted to manually send signed Christmas cards to the most distinguished community members and friends. But they took a very long way from our headquarters in Freiburg to the office in Halle and only arrived yesterday. Not enough time left to give them the time to arrive punctually, especially thinking of foreign addressees. So here they are: Merry [Read more...]
Just in case you miss me in the OXID forums and other virtual places: I’ll be on holiday from tomorrow until mid of August, back to business then. I will not read my emails, I will not be available via mobile phone and I will have no Internet connection for three weeks. Oh - and sorry: I intentionally didn't switch on the automatic out-of-office reply as I am registered at many mailing lists [Read more...]
In the recent months, I attended all of the main trade fairs of the e-commerce industry in Germany and France: dmexco (Digital Marketing Exposition & Conference) in Cologne Salon E-Commerce in Paris MOW (Mail Order World) in Wiesbaden I joined the OXID eSales crew at our booths and I would like to share my very personal take aways of the events with you. Don't just ask me what [Read more...]
There are many different aspects to consider when distributing a newsletter to clients of your online store: categorization, definition, content, legal conditions and technical facts. In this post, I’ll concentrate only on the technical aspects. Newsletters are emails containing information or promotions that you, as a shop owner, wish to send to your registered customers. In some countries, [Read more...]
Yeehaa! It's summertime! Just in case you miss me in the OXID forums and other virtual places: I'll be on holiday from July 11th until the end of the month, back to business then. I will not read my e-mails, I will not be available via mobile phone and I will have no Internet connection for three long weeks. Cheerio!
As earlier announced in my blog post on oxid-esales.com, Friday, March 11th, was our first local developer meet-up in Leipzig, Germany. I personally was really surprised to see 16 people attending, including developers from our partners D³ Data Development (Thalheim, Saxony), GN2 netwerk (Coburg, Bavaria), marmalade.de (Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt), dotSource GmbH (Jena, Thuringia) and Ontraq [Read more...]