Owner: Rainer Feike techblog URL:http://www.feike.biz/weblog/ Join Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 07:28:30 -0500 Rating:0 Site Description: Rainer Feike observing trends in computer technologies and internet business Site statistics:Click here
When will dmoz power off 2007-11-26 10:17:30 I recently wanted to check my entries in dmoz and found some of my sites were kicked out. Why did they do this? Didn’t get any explanation for sure. They did some work like reorganizing the structure - or whatever. Well, I’m a little bit angry currently - but it doesn’t make sense anyway anymore (except for backlinks - is dmoz a huge link-farm?).
Do you know a single person that uses a directory to browse the internet? Don’t think so.. but if yes - she will not use dmoz more then two times. In the “rich subject tree” you’re everytime a dozen clicks away from your goal - and the choice is subject to ‘editors’, and what’s the relation to AOL? That’s exactly not what the democratic web2.0 is for.
Google claims a few hours to add an interesting new site to its index - the dmoz wants some weeks or months. So maybe we miss some important happening when using dmoz?
Thanks a lot to all the hundreds of thousands of editors that Read more:power
Started Beta of new Wii Community based on Drupal 5.3 2007-12-05 03:57:49 Yesterday I stared the beta run (this is very 2.0 webish) of my wiiclub project. It’s a community for Wii
Gamers in German. It makes extensive use of lots of Drupal
s community features, like i.e.
the userpoints api
the fivestar rating
the buddylist module
the chartroom module
lots of image galleries
features cck types like a “game report”
uses forum, blog, poll
The site is very much web2.0 like, that means it has
community features
bright colors
orange button with gradient
gradients in backgrounds
big primary navigation
a star like beta-batch
rounded corners
centered non-table layout
cute icons
clear breadcumb
So, if you are addicted to Wii - come join us
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Feeding “static” sites from Drupal nodes 2008-02-26 07:14:31 This is about how I manage to create content for domains without CMS from a Drupal
enabled domain without any manual work.
On address www.immobilien-spot.de I am running a community for real estate agents. It’s primary focused on Immobilien in München (that’s German for real estate in Munich).
Estate agents can become members, can show 10 [...] Read more:Feeding
, static
SUN to buy MySQL AB 2008-01-23 01:40:58 As Mr. Schwartz, CEO of SUN Microsystems wrote here, SUN is going to acquire MySQL
AB for about 1 Billion Dollars.
What does this mean to Oracle, Sybase, DB2 and MSSQL Server?
It’s out of the question, that MySQL is the most used Database worldwide. The main reasons are, that MySQL runs with poor hardware, it’s [...]
Small site experiment 2008-01-10 05:30:01 On my search about if search engines like small site or big sites I found no satisfying answer. So I set up a little experiment on my own. I drive a lawyer directory with like about 20.000 pages for two years now. For search terms like “Rechtsanwalt Berlin” - I am aiming for city specific [...] Read more:Small
New MIMEMailPHP Version 2.1.3 released 2008-01-08 01:33:06 Users told me they had problems with some online mail clients (like gmx and gmail) viewing mails sent with my MIMEMailxPHP4_V2 PHP class when cid (base64 coded inline) images are contained.
There was a bug initially found by Patrick Kränzlin. This bug is fixed now, you find the current (2.1.3) Version for download (it’s open source) [...]
Drupal: Using node and user information in block code 2008-01-07 03:52:34 This is for Drupal
5, don’t know if it works also in version 6.
Usually block
content is not related to the currently displayed node. I.e. the block that displays the recent blog posts always displays the same content, regardless of on what page you are currently looking.
I often had situations where I wanted the block [...] Read more:information
Installing Drupal 6 “upgrade save” 2008-04-11 03:20:04 Drupal is upgrading very frequently. Specially nowadays as V6 is out for a view weeks. If you don’t want to get mad upgrading Drupal every other day - here are some hints to follow when installing Drupal6.
Most important: If you have more sites running on one server: Do a multisite installation!
Assuming you have your Apache [...] Read more:Drupal
, upgrade
A German Disclaimer 2008-05-02 02:10:54 When you run a website in German
y, you’re worried by laws. Some think you need a disclaimer or “Haftungsausschluss”, some think you don’t.
I found a lawer’s text that’s free for copying. So If you need, or need not, a disclaimer for your Page running in Germany (whatever “in” means) take this free disclaimer.
Back in the dawn of the internet 2008-05-20 08:36:04 When I googled my name today, I found really interesting posts that are 12 years old. Thanks to google for awakening those sweet memories.
It’s about FFT transformations and I found it in Google Groups.
For those of you who are not grandfathers… before www got popular, we were communicating via usenet - groups
Man, 12 [...]
Favorite current project 2008-06-04 14:39:40 My favorite current project is opentimesheet.org.
It’s about efficient online time registration and recording.
Last 14 years as freelancer I was using a horrible number of time capturing systems. Actually I am using about three at a time now. There are so many of them, and most companies invent their own - starting with excel - ending [...] Read more:Favorite
UI Brainbreaker 2008-06-11 07:26:06 Since a while I am thinking about a better possibility to present a link-matrix to my users. Currently it’s just a matrix where I have the topics as lines and a geographic location for each topic as column.
Now, if the user searches for “gewerblicher Rechtsschutz München” she navigates to the line “gewerblicher Rechtsschutz” and to [...]
CSS Selectors - Short Reference 2008-06-23 08:10:15 This is a “short as possible” reference for CSS selector syntax. Intended audience should be very familiar with XHTML, DOM and CSS Styling.
Basics
Type selector
Select all HTML elements of a special type.
Example: em {font-weight: bold;}
Class selector
Select all elements with a given class.
Example: .classname {font-weight: normal;}
ID selector
Select [...] Read more:Short
I took it - A list apart web survey 2008 2008-07-31 04:40:59 Other famous people who already took the survey:
Eloy took it
Myles took it
Thomas took it
Ashwin took it
Adam took it
And you should, too!
Proposal for a CSS ancestor grouping syntax 2008-07-23 02:25:34 What we need
I am missing a syntax to apply a common ancestor to a set of rules. As far as I know, there’s no such concept in CSS selector syntax.
With the increasing usage of CSS definitions to style HTML markup, CSS files grow bigger and bigger. With this it’s getting more and more complex [...] Read more:Proposal
Google Chrome - Google’s new masterpiece 2008-09-03 06:03:49 (Illustration by Google
)
Today Google released a new browser. Naturally I’ve downloaded it immediately (for Windows XP, here) - and it’s fantastic.
First impression: So so very fast, actually all pages are just there, there’s no progress to recognize.
Second impression: It looks different, it looks cool.
On the downside:
- There are no beloved plugins existing (firebug).
- Is [. Read more:Chrome
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