bifröst

My girlfriend used haloscan as a commenting system for her blog at blogger for several years. As far as I know that was because the default commenting system provided was really bad. This changed some time ago (after an upgrade made by google which owns blogger now) and now she wants to transfer the old comments. She found a howto and so I had to try it.
I’ve never coded anything in Python until today, but at least I already used Perl and Ruby, so it was not that hard to modify the script. At the end it just was a bit of regex’ing. Now we have an xml file with all the comments, but importing it into blogger will be much harder: the blogger api provides a commenting function, but you can’t specify the date…
No surprise, right?

or: presentation is everything

Within the last week I worked a lot for FabrikIM, a software written in ruby. This project is part of my studies and we had to do it as a group of four people. It’s more or less a simulation with input of sellwishes, working lists for the staff etc. and and output of production or orderlist. Our tool is maybe the best in a technical view (I am sure it is ;)) and we finished the concomitantly business game as no 1. But sometimes technique is evil. The software worked fine and we had to present it today. But we did not check all technical issues, which means that the LiveCD (FabrikIM was developed under linux but will work on every platform) failed to open our presentation, because we just tested the documentation and the tool itself. So we switched to our normal developing machine (at least one of them :D) and there the connection to the beamer sucked: 640×432!? No way to change it fast and so the technique was our undoing. The presentation was “ok” but you could see anything in the live demo of the tool itself. Now we will get a “bad” mark cause we “ignored” something very important: presentation is everything.

But: we will release the good part of the software as open source soon, so stay tuned…!

SEO is well-known all around the world. One of the most popular term is the “Hommingberger Gepardenforelle”, which was announced by heise.de in april 2005. During my studies, I have to do such a contest with some colleagues, too. We created a page with the word “Brüllwurst” (german for yell-sausage), which is pure imagination. Our product’s name is “Elchwurst” (german for elk-sausage) and we started our site some days ago at http://elchwurst.qimp.org.

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