It Is Not Just the Flu

30. April 2020

There are lot of opinions out there about SARS-CoV2 (aka. Corona). Lots of them stating that COVID-19 (the disease of a SARS-CoV2 infection) is not more than just the good ol’ flu. But this opinion is BS! Although I’m more a technical guy interested in computer stuff and security I feel the urge to say some words about this topic to provide an opposite pole. Because this ill-informed opinion SARS-CoV2 is just like the flu threatens the security of the health of my family, friends and me!…

Blog Resurected

23. April 2020

I’ll be Back Baby Since months, no years, I desired to start writing blog posts again. I think I have to say some things some times. That’s the reason why I resurrected my blog. This involved some Terraform and Ansible hacking to get it run. I also updated the theming. I decided to choose one without JavaScript to save your bandwidth.

Interim Move to Jekyll and GitHub

16. February 2018

Roundabout two years ago I decided to get rid of Wordpress and the full stack of PHP and MySQL. About my reasons for this decision I’ve blogged here. As a result I decided to write my own simple blog solution: Uberblog. This was a weekend project which served me well, until I decided to reinstall my root server from scratch. Then the hassle with Ruby, Gems and dependency versions started. It was so much fiddling to get these quite simple Ruby scripts running again with their dependencies.…

Agile Bodensee Conference 2012

24. November 2014

My brother has organized his first conference. It is also the first local agile conference at Bodensee in Germany. It is the Agile Bodensee on 28th of September. One of my favorite highlight is the fact that the conference fee is really cheap. The fee for the whole day is only 50 Bugs. Other highlights are the keynote speakers: Jurgen Appelo and Joseph Pelrine.

Passenger On Board

7. April 2012

In my first approach I was running the Sinatra app for the REST API of my blog (for ratings etc.) from command line. This has the drawback that the HTTP daemon integrated in Sinatra listens on a different port than the rest of the blog. This leads to same origin problems when ajaxing the REST API. To circumvent this I’ve used a small proxy script as a workaround. But now I’ve found Passenger (aka.…

Chrome Dev Tools Reloaded

1. April 2012

Are you using Firebug or Venkman? Did you ever tried the Chrome developer tools? If your answers were yes and no you should watch this video from Google IO 2011 about the Chrome developer tools: If your answers were no and no you should consider watching the video, too. And you should think about better ways than sprinkling alert() all over you’re code and forget them there for the joy of the user.…

Uberblog 1.0

1. April 2012

Two weeks ago I announced that I’ll no longer use Wordpress but a more simple self programmed solution. Now I’m at the point that I can say: I’ve a version with all features I need. The version 1.0. Why did I choose this way? As described in my former post I’ve used Wordpress quite a long time. And I don’t want to rant too much about Wordpress, PHP and the whole universe.…

Keynes vs. Hayek

25. March 2012

If you ever wondered what this Keynes and Hayek thing is, a lot of economists talking about. Here are two excellent videos telling about. “Fear the Boom and Bust” a Hayek vs. Keynes Rap Anthem Fight of the Century: Keynes vs. Hayek Round Two

Debian and the Outdated Ruby Gems

23. March 2012

Debian is in my personal opinion the best Linux server distribution ever! I’ve never used something else. But one big drawback is that a lot of stuff is really outdated: With PHP you have to use backports. Java and Maven brings some hassle, too. And now I realized the same problem with Ruby Gems. But there is a solution as described here (german blog post). By default Debian disables the gem update --system to prevent circumventing the Debian packet management system.…

Post to Twitter with Ruby

23. March 2012

Just few hours ago I added the feature that new blog posts are posted to my Twitter account. With the twitter gem only a few lines of code necessary: require 'twitter' twitter = Twitter.new({ :consumer_key => 'YOUR_CONSUMER_KEY', :consumer_secret => 'YOUR_CONSUMER_SECRET', :oauth_token => 'YOUR_OAUTH_TOKEN', :oauth_token_secret => 'YOUR_OAUTH_TOKEN_SECRET' }) twitter.update('Hello world!') Shorten URIs with bitly gem is as simple as posting to twitter, too: require 'bitly' Bitly.use_api_version_3 bitly = Bitly.new('YOUR_USERNAME', 'YOUR_API_KEY') short_url = bitly.…