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Django Developer Toolbar

A7P — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 22:34:57 +0000

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 down some well hidden problems – might be I’ll switch to vim for python development really soon … well normally pydev is great – eclipse just isn’t.

Stupid is who does stupid …

A7P — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 11:33:42 +0000

Germany is getting damn stupid internetfiltering. Here’s the one line to circumvent it for unixoid operating systems.

Deutsche Bahn and the TRUTH

A7P — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:01:43 +0000

… seems the Deutsche Bahn does not like the truth – especially when it is in the wild. Thanks Markus Beckedahl for setting it free.

Launchpad got Podcast

A7P — Sat, 24 May 2008 13:58:00 +0000

Here comes the New Launchpad podcast actually there already two episodes online (here is the second one) – hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

Open (Source) Social Networks

A7P — Mon, 05 May 2008 17:12:28 +0000

… till now I found two:

Noserub uses PHP/MySQL
insoshi uses RoR

Haven’t tried any of them till now … but I will keep collecting and have a (very) close look at them (not so very) soon.

UPDATE: Someone asked the same question and got a bunch of answers.

An Open Letter for the German Chancellor

A7P — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:24:21 +0000

Just read a very amusing (and german) open Letter to Mrs. Merkel concerning the “thing” which is called “Intellectual Property” by a lot of people.

FLOW3

A7P — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 14:33:51 +0000

This is kind of very VERY INTERESSTING. Might be it takes some of the pain out of php-programming.
Guess I should get a little bit more verbose on, why I am so happy just by the announcement of yet another PHP-Framework.
First of all – I hate PHP, but I love TYPO3 (in spite of being PHP-based). TYPO3 has proven very solid in the years I use it. It’s backend might seem complicated, but once you understand the basic principles, it is very easy to handle and to enhance. For me TYPO3 lifted PHP-programming to a new level – usable libs, simple, but yet efficient design (considering it is a PHP-programm).
The public announcement of the FLOW3 framework is the first visible step towards abandoning the PHP4-style and consequently using the new PHP5 possibilities.
In addition to this the very will of using modern design-patterns and programming-techniques (which is even more important than the consequent usage of the new OO-features of PHP5) in order to be ready for the future, shows it’s first (very promising) fruits.
The way, the TYPO3-project chose to try to remain in the market is one of professionalisation – coding for TYPO3 will at the same time become more difficult and easy. TYPO3/FLOW3 seems to be a promising opportunity for PHP-Coders to become better programmers and write better programs (faster).
I am very enthusiastic about the consequent architectural approach chosen for the TYPO3-to-come and I wish them the very best (even though they should have taken the opportunity to drop PHP and switch to python ).