28 Aug, 07
Liebe Google-Suchenden,
die Antwort lautet in Deutschland üblicherweise ja. Näheres zum Thema “Zoophilie und das Recht” bei Wikipedia oder dem Anwalt eures Vertrauens.
Jetzt mal nicht schüchtern sein, wa?
General, Deutschland, Deutsch, Google and Zoophilie
27 Aug, 07
I hate sites that have absolutely broken validation of fields. Whether they require you to enter your credit card number without spaces (because stripping spaces is SO HARD!), expect dates in the brokenest format ever (MM/DD/YYYY, cue the angry Amurricans) without telling you, or disallow special characters in the password(!)… but my favorite would have to be those sites that throw an unfriendly “Your e-mail address is invalid” at you when you enter an address containing a + sign.
Dear site admins, validator programmers, and whatnot: In most cases, I don’t even want to register for your site in the first place, so if you’re going to force me, at least don’t make it harder than necessary! Read the damn RfC! If you block plus signs in e-mail addresses, that means that instead of just using one mailbox and any number of plussed aliased, I have to log in to my server, edit the virtusertable, rebuild it, and reload sendmail.
Unless your page is really valuable for me, chances are that I won’t bother.
General, Internet, Annoyances, Usability, E-Mail and Validation
24 Aug, 07
Die A623 ist an diesem Wochenende in Richtung AD Friedrichsthal wegen Sanierungsarbeiten gesperrt. Die Umleitung zur A8 geht über die Dudweiler Landstraße, aber ich empfehle statt dessen gleich die A1 zu nehmen. Zurück geht’s über die A623 ohne Probleme.
20 Aug, 07
Canon today announced the EOS 40D, successor to the EOS 30D. It features the new DIGIC III processor, 6.5 frames per second, a larger and brighter viewfinder, live view with autofocus(!), buffer for 75 JPEGs/17 RAWs, weather-proofing, 1D-style menus (with “My Menu”), a new AF system, dedicated AF button, automatic dust-removal and a 10.1 megapixel sensor. Also, the 40D doesn’t just shut down and lose all unsaved data when the card compartment is opened. The cam will come to the European market in October.
Maybe I’m just a little annoyed since my 30D is still rather new, but I think this cam is too good for this segment. Especially with weather-proofing and live view, this gets uncomfortably close to the 1D-line features. Comparing price tags and looking at the problems that still affect the 1DmkIII, this might be a convincing alternative for those now holding out or saving for a 1D.
General, Photography, Announcement and Canon
26 Jul, 07
You may or may not know that I’m terribly busy at work at the moment, rewriting a large application that has its roots in PHP3 (oh yeah) and is a crazy mix of HTML and PHP. Things like ‘abstraction’, ‘layers’, or even just ‘separating code and presentation’ are completely alien concepts there.
So I decided to do the rewrite using one of the many PHP frameworks - CodeIgniter, CakePHP, Symfony, etc. - and decided on CakePHP (and, maybe more important, against Symfony). Doing the ‘reading’ parts of the app was simple enough, despite me being a complete newbie to CakePHP and using the 1.2 alpha versions which is mostly undocumented. But the actual data input and saving part, I hit a wall. Hard.
The problem I have is this (models are in bold):
To enter a Venue, you first select a Location. Then you add the Venue data, which is a lot of fields. Then, you add 0..n Images (which you upload just then). Then, 0..n Organs (as in music), either from a list of existing ones, or you can add one on the fly. Then, optionally, Ensembles (dito); and then you finally get to review your data and finalize the Transaction. All this should be on a wizard-like form, with multiple steps/pages.
Editing a venue is pretty much the same, except the data is already there. So the record and all associated records get copied as needed, with a reference to the original.
Then, the admin can either approve your Transaction and merge your changes into the DB, or deny it and delete the Transaction and all associated rows.
The problems start with getting everything wizard-like. There is a FormWizard component, but that seems to randomly overwrite or clear $this->data. I don’t know what to do with my data when I hit the ‘add 0..n images’ step, or when adding organs or ensembles. I have no clue what “the Cake way” would be here, since all examples I can find are rather simplistic with only a few fields, all on one page, and at most one relation (which always fits a select box).
Can any cake baker out there help me get back on track before I lose my mind?
22 Jul, 07
… um rote Fahnen mit schwarzem Symbol in weißem Kreis zu schwenken?
(Absichtlich ohne Link.)
15 Jul, 07
FYI: We’re going to Staden now to bask in the sun. Join us.
23 Jun, 07
You are cordially invited to attend brunch tomorrow, Sunday, June 23rd, at about 11:30 CEST, in Perspektive 1. Registered attendees get seated first :p
Close the gate, they’re here now.
General, Saarbrücken, Tee and Culture
09 Jun, 07
The London 2012 logo is even more craptastic than the color scheme they use on their website.
That’s why you don’t let your kids do LSD-laced crayons.
Update: German taz mentions the logo :D
General, Design, London and Olympic-Games