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C#: Get URL of HTTP Redirect 5 Dec 2011 | 08:08 am
This is one of those snippets that might be useful someday: Typically browsers or the default http request class of your favorite programming language redirect you automatically in case they receive ...
Bye Bye MacPorts, Homebrew here we go 13 Jun 2011 | 08:30 am
Having bought my iMac in September 2010, I’m still pretty new to Mac OS X. One of the first things I did back then was to install MacPorts in order to install e.g. the Gimp, Ruby and a couple of other...
Testing Photoshop Elements 13 Jun 2011 | 06:52 am
Today I downloaded Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 for testing . After a few hours of trying it out: Great software and I’m pretty sure I’m going to buy it since it’s for only 100 EUR which I consider a fa...
Setting up a CDN with Amazon S3 and Cloud Front in 5min 6 Jun 2011 | 01:44 am
When you create a new bucket in Amazon S3, you can choose from five different locations: US Standard, Northern California, Ireland, Singapore and Tokyo. Most web applications however have visitors fr...
Visual Studio 2008: Configuration Manager missing 26 May 2011 | 07:14 am
Today I ran into a problem with Visual Studio 2008: It wouldn’t show me the Configuration Manager in the Build menu which caused that I couldn’t easily switch between Debug and Release compilation. F...
Natural Project Planning 17 May 2011 | 08:04 am
Allen’s Getting Things Done is a resourceful book in many ways. If someone asked me for the two most valuable / interesting passages of the booking I’d probably point out the “Getting Things Done” dia...
Improving the speed of Ajax GET requests 16 May 2011 | 01:11 am
In my last article I described how to improve the speed of your Rails 3 Ajax Application by returning correct HTTP states and optimizing browser caching. One thing that still annoyed me was the fact ...
Das Weltgeheimnis – Thomas De Padova 11 May 2011 | 09:40 am
Das Weltgeheimnis by Thomas De Padova is not quite an international best seller, at least I didn’t find an English version of the book. Nevertheless for those who speak German and who are interested i...
Rails 3: Improving the speed of your Ajax Application 2 May 2011 | 10:11 am
List Kung Fu uses Ajax a lot and so far it works out pretty well. Over the past two weeks I’ve looked into improving the performance of the UI and there are a couple of things that helped a lot and wh...
Persepolis – Marjane Satrapi 29 Apr 2011 | 08:17 am
Persepolis is an amazing comic book and it offers a view on Iran and life in Iran that you don’t hear about often these days. I read it within a couple of days and it is very worthwhile. It will make ...
