Archive for September, 2007

ant tasks

Sunday, September 30th, 2007

It was really annoying to get some ant tasks working. First I tried to save the latest svn-version (a number) into a file to use it within file names. This worked fine with the version of a special file, but it failed for a version for the whole project. So I switched to use the date for the “normal” releases and will use a some “own” version numbers for minor and major releases. Then I tried to use a ftp task to upload my project directly from eclipse. And this still does not work - it seems like some different jars don’t like each other.
But anyway, I have a really nice index.html now - and some releases are online too :)
And this stuff is more or less useless until now and will be changed later.

font families

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

Ok, the first thing I’ve learned right today is:
Fonts in the web aren’t perfect. I didn’t see the difference for a until I’ve changed the css sheet from
code {
font: 1.1em 'Courier New', Courier, Fixed;
}

to
code {
font: 1.2em Monospace;
}

There was a differnce, but I was too marginal for me.

the beginning…

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

Woah, theres missing something in my flat.
Woah, started to write english…

Ok, let’s start:

  • The thing which is “missing” in my flat is a… let’s call it “wallpaper” with lyrics of “Out of Ginnungagap” written by Einherjer, a nordic metal band. It’s about the creation, but to be honest: that’s much more than starting this blog.
  • “Starting in english” Ok, that’s a normal “problem”. Although I am German, the whole computer science stuff is english, so I use this language. Let’s see how long this will take. (maybe it improves my english yiyi)

Why are we here? Out of Ginnu… mkay, stop!
I had this idea some hours ago, laying on the bed, having a stomach ache. I was fucked up with not learning the “new” CSS stuff (yeah, the official homepage is awful and sorry for my French).
Now, the point: I’m still writing my website layouts with html-tables. Lot’s of people think, that’s something you shouldn’t do. You might think whatever you want about it, but at least: it’s normal to use div and css for new projects. I used css for everything else before, except item placement. And this will change now.

As you might have noticed, the description of this blog also contains “xhtml and linux”. To say it in a few words: xhtml is the best friend of css and I have switched to linux as my standard OS some weeks ago, after windows didn’t allow me to copy some mp3 to my notebook. So I will write about these things too and maybe about ajax, sql etc.

Now, the “bifröst project” means: I’m on the way to learn new stuff until I’m in Valhall wait for Ragnarök, drinking beer, fighting,… As you can see, I like nordic stuff, hehe.
So, something about me to understand why I want to learn this “new” stuff:
I am studying “Business Information Systems” and am a software developer for several years now. With this surrounding you always learn new stuff. So maybe you’ll see some interesting stuff on this website later.

My goals are:

  • Creating a css layout for this wordpress blog
  • Creating a css layout for a simple household accounting software written in PHP
  • Infos about how to handle with linux (ubuntu) as a grook (good rook ;))

And the start page of this project is empty because it’s late at night and I’m to lazy to set up an index.html. But soon there’ll be a page with some links, e.g. to this blog and the first steps of the accounting software (which is also under construction and has no style in anyway yet).

Thats it, come back soon.

P.S.: Wrote a lot, so I have to continue oO