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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.…

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.…

Debian and the Outdated Ruby Gems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 But one big drawback is that a lot of stuff is really outdated: With PHP you have to use backports.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.…

Fuck Of Wordpress

18. March 2012

Wordpress was my first blog software. I used it since roundabout six years now. Writing an own plugin for my blog was one of my first steps learning PHP. After my experiences with Java 1.4 and MS Visual C++ 6.0 from 2002 until 2005 I came over to the web scripting area and got in touch with PHP. The new OOP features and the short round trip time I liked.…

Launched Website for a Video Cutter

23. April 2011

Some days ago I launched a new website. It’s the portfolio of my former neighbor. He’s a talented digital video cutter always searching for new interesting projects to work on near Stuttgart in Germany. For this website I used first time the Sublime video player. Very nice tool. Easy to integrate and with powerful JavaScript API. The player supports HTML5 video tag but also provides a Flash fallback for browser which did not support HTML5 or a proper codec.…

Darcs in Hudson/Jenkins CI

15. February 2011

At work we’re using heavily the DVCS Darcs. Beyond dispute Darcs is in my opinion a good and suitable workhorse. Ok, it’s not that hip like Git is. But the biggest drawback is the lack of integration in other tools like IDEs, issue trackers, build tools etc. There is also no SCM integration for Hudson/Jenkins continuous integration server, which we’re using at work, too. Long time I were complaining about this bad integration like others, too.…