Category Archives: complaining

Django Developer Toolbar

A really nice tool for everyone developing Django. Together with virtual-env, django-evolution, fabric, pip and pydev it’s a pretty nice development environment. Get it here. Well – pydev is currently living a dangerous life – spent my whole afternoon hunting … Continue reading

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Wrong Choices

*schnief* python chose the “wrong” VCS. Tell me why Guido – I don’t want to learn using another VCS.

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Almost lost my sanity over Flex+Bitmap Fonts

An (unbelievable ugly, but nevertheless life saving solution) is to be found here. ADOBE, this SUCKS! How the hell am I supposed to use bitmap fonts (and please don’t tell me I should not). If anyone knows a sane way … Continue reading

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Needful Things

I am enthusiastic, I am astonished, I am amazed – this little German company shows how Apps should look (on the Mac). I’ve never ever seen a single simple App that I enjoyed using sooo much.Things is an application created … Continue reading

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Setting up a WindowsPC – Part II

puhhh … I finished setting up the WindowsPC. The disk migration finally worked via liveview and VMwareServer, but the PC was not fast enought – it worked, but I was not (very) satisfied.Now everything is installed manually – the only … Continue reading

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Setting up a WindowsPC – Part I (hope it’ll be only a triology)

/me has to set up a WindowsPC – has been a long time since I was last forced into this. I feel a bit rusty concerning Windows matters.Here I will list what I’ve done so far: installed Antivir system updates … Continue reading

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Happyness and the Other Side

As happy as I am with my iPhone, as unhappy I am with it’s podcasting features. I am especially unhappy with iTunes and the possiblities it offers to configure podcast-synchronisation!

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TAPI & managed code

I solved my TAPI-problem using C#s excellent COM binding – BUT my solution does not work reliable. Recently I discovered this knowledge article – M$ recomends against using TAPI from managed code, which made me searching for another solution to … Continue reading

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DHL online stamps

… and once again the Deutsche Post managed it to really annoy me. Their online-stamp-system uses PDFs with embedded JavaScript .. you have to click away about 5 warning messages, about remote connections, printing etc and you can print it … Continue reading

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Hating the “Deutsche Post”

I just spend about an hour to print some stamps which I bought from the “Deutsche Post”. my PDF-Reader (evince) does not execute JavaScript (which I appreciate very much – it’s a f**king PDF-displayer, not a turing machine) the Deutsche … Continue reading

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