I have been attending this year's Future of Web Apps Expo in London's ExCeL centre.
There were a ton of interesting speakers and I enjoyed listening a lot. Amongst others there were Steve Souders of Yahoo (High Performance Web Sites), Paul Graham of Y Combinator (The future of web startups), Matt Mullenweg of Wordpress.com (The architecture [...]

Today my Dock was playing a little weird. I am not aware of any crime that my Finder should have committed.

I was always wondering what the size of numeric columns in MySQL was. Forgive me if this is obvious to someone else. But for me the MySQL manual lacks a great deal in this field.
Usually you see something like int(11) in CREATE TABLE statements, but you can also change it to int(4).
So what does this [...]

I have been asked several times where one could get the t-shirt that I was wearing.

The answer is simple: I have created a Spreadshirt shop.
So if you want to get one for yourself (or someone else), go ahead and get it :)
There is also a German version available (I am a native German speaker :), [...]

It has come to my attention today that the almost famous Spam Block List provider put the IP addresses of the Austrian Registry nic.at on their block list.
The list that Spamhaus provides is actually something good: it allows mail server administrators to automatically block mails arriving from servers that are known to be operated [...]

Today del.icio.us did some really nice interface updates.
In the first place, they announced inline editing which is very slick. You just click on "edit" on the "your bookmarks" page and you can edit the item right away.

They also updated the URL page which looks very nice and tidy now.

These updates don't affect blummy, you can [...]

I have recently configured a server of mine to use the Squid Cache in HTTP Acceleration mode. So what's this anyway?
A typical request to a webserver looks like this: Client browser opens connection to server port 80, server sends back the data through that connection. For the time of the transfer the server "loses" one [...]

E Ink: Entwickler-Kit mit elektronischem Papier -- Golem.de
(the corresponding PR announcement)
go on, go on, go on. that's what i want. i don't like reading on the screen very much. i waste tons of paper just for printing internet pages and reading them, e.g. while travelling around through vienna by tram.
unfortunately the e-book device development seems [...]

this time i've arrived from berlin and great britain, of course there are photos with comments.