Author Archives: simon

Google’s eingerückte Suchergebnisse

Posted on September 25, 2010 by simon

In der letzten Zeit werde ich immer wieder nach eingerückten Ergebnissen gefragt. Auch wenn es dieses Feature ja nun wirklich schon ewig gibt, scheint noch längst nicht jeder zu wissen, was es damit eigentlich auf sich hat, daher hier mal … Continue reading →

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Der erbärmliche Oberbürgermeister

Posted on August 18, 2010 by simon

Udo Vetter vom lawblog hätte es nicht besser schreiben können, daher verweise ich hier mitsamt Überschriftenklau auf seinen Artikel zum erbärmlichen Oberbürgermeister

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Purpose Inc to host charity Poker Tournament @PubCon Las Vegas

Posted on November 5, 2009 by simon

PubCon Las Vegas is coming up next week. We’re actually flying down there on saturday. During the conference there will be a charitable Texas Hold’Em Poker Tournament I’d like to attend. In order to register as a player, people have … Continue reading →

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radius search with google maps and mysql

Posted on October 4, 2009 by simon

Let’s say you’re building a wepapp and you want to give your users the ability to do a radius search for something (e.g. gas stations) in a specific location. On top of that you want your users to provide your … Continue reading →

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c++ xml parser

Posted on January 31, 2009 by simon

I am currently developing a new project that works a lot with xml files. So I was in need of a fast, leightweight xml parser. I knew of one I already looked at some time ago. Xerxes XML-Parser is a … Continue reading →

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Linux is what you want it to be, nothing else

Posted on November 25, 2008 by simon

I know that this topic has been discussed all over the internet for a few years now, especially since ubuntu became that popular. There are a lot of great comments and thoughts out there on what linux is and what … Continue reading →

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Installing apache, mysql and php on gentoo

Posted on November 25, 2008 by simon

Just right now I’m setting up my new home server for various things. It’ll do all of my ranking stuff of course, since it’s very easy for me to get a new ip once G is blocking me. Right now … Continue reading →

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Integrate phpBB with a full featured photo album

Posted on August 3, 2008 by simon

So heres the deal: I wanted to set up phpbb for a group of ~40 people who went to summer vacation together. I also wanted them to be able to upload photos of the trip to some kind of photo … Continue reading →

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setting up a bridged network for virtualbox on ubuntu linux (Host Interface)

Posted on March 5, 2008 by simon

In order for this to run, you will most likely need a wired network connection, since most wireless-adapters won’t support bridged networking! This description is intended to be used with VirtualBox >= 1.4.0, since earlier versions handle the virtual networking … Continue reading →

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