I put several pics online to my fotki account…
A nice view from our hotel room in floor 27
CF_UNDERGROUND VI
More to follow…

Bloody hell, I thought I had to die after leaving the hotel this morning in direction of 601 Poydras Street where CF_UNDERGROUND VI takes place. I don’t know exactly what temperature we have over here, but I guess it to be around 28-30 degree Celsius and very humid.
Additionally I’m still jet-lagged and have to dal [...]

Finally Diane and I made it to New Orleans. Following German time I’m up now for 24 hours, New Orleans local time is about 10 pm on Saturday.
Some good news, my friend and co-worker Alex also arrived in the US after he got some trouble getting a valid passport to enter the US after [...]

This is really unbelievable… I avoid spam to our blog comments now by using a mechanism of sending me an email containing the new comment. I have to allow each and every comment becoming visible in the blog by following a procedure which couldn’t be done by one of the spammers. Today I found the [...]

This is an interesting one. Prof. Gunter Dueck, an IBM Distinguished Engineer, is publishing his personal scientific thoughts on the IT world regularly in the German Informatik Spektrum. The latter is a magazine (six issues per year) which is published by the German Society of Computer Science (GI) for its members, which I’m a member [...]

iX, a German IT magazine which I publish articles in regularly, is available in an international version now. The pilot issue 0 is online for free on their web server
The editors appreciate all interested people to download issue 0 and answer some questions on the feedback form. Sadly there isn’t one of my articles in [...]

Just found this list of free XML tools via the goog and resolve. Worth a detailled look if you’re dealing with XML…!