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ZVON.org hosts some very useful XML-related tutorials, among others:
XML Tutorial
Namespaces Tutorial
DTD Tutorial
XSLT Tutorial
XPath Tutorial
These are great tutorials if you like as-concise-as-possible, example-driven learning approaches (rather than reading dry and highly formal specifications) and need to quickly refresh your know-how about XML-related standards.
START Up Day – Tag des Jungunternehmens
I probably won’t be able to attend the START up day festivities in Zurich that early in the evening. Nonetheless it’s cool and important that there is a day such as the StartUp day :)
For the past X’05 Swiss marketing expo, I wanted to print some guerilla marketing promo t-shirts for us. First, I tried McShirt.ch in the Niederdorf in Zurich. Unfortunately, they weren’t able to import my professional-grade vector graphics file (in Adobe Illustrator format) into their plotting application. I had my TabletPC with me and even simplified my design and converted it to other well-known and standardized file formats (PDF, PostScript, SVG) in order to make it easier for them (Note that I spent more than an hour in their shop waiting for them to succeed). However, they just didn’t manage it – and that’s what I call an unprofessional service, despite of kind personnel. A bummer.
So I looked for an alternative – and surprisingly I found an excellent one! :) The very recommendable t-shirt printing company is named Kami Textildruck and is located a bit outside of Zurich, in Wallisellen. They were very professional right from the beginning, with kind and correct information given on the phone and by e-mail. They had no problem at all with my graphics file and they produced our custom t-shirts within only 1.5 days (half of the time it would have taken at McShirt) for just a slightly higher price. Further, Kami uses professional printing technology which results in a much better and more durable print than that of McShirt.
Hence my predicate for Kami: highly recommended! Thanks, Kami team!
Here’s the second, completed part of my list about Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird extensions and hints I find very useful for my daily work (and yours too, possibly ;):
Essential Mozilla Firefox extensions
Web Developer
ScrapBook
Flat Bookmark Editing
savegenpage
DictionarySearch
Duplicate Tab
Bookmarks Synchronizer
miniT (drag+indicator)
Copy Plain Text
undoclosetab (undoclosetab.xpi for FF 1.0.6)
Chinese-English-Japanese Character Hint Bar
Digger
Other hints for Mozilla Firefox:
Essential Mozilla Thunderbird extensions
Enigmail
MinimizeToTray
Virtual Identity
Quote Colors
MessageFaces
Other hints for Mozilla Thunderbird:
The first draft of RSS 3 Lite has been published:
First draft of RSS 3 Lite
heise online – Erster Entwurf für RSS 3
A useful Firefox extension for people who would like to share cached “bookmarks” between several workstations:
ScrapBook – Firefox Extension
ScrapBook @ Mozilla Update
BTW I had a similar idea for a long time. My architecture would be more flexible though, allowing any client (not only Firefox), not require any client-side configuration and provide even more useful features. I intend to implement it as soon as time permits as I really miss such a power app. In the meantime, ScrapBook serves as an interim solution.
There are new SSL/TLs certificates for numlock.ch, valid through July 23, 2015:
Please delete the old certificates and import the new ones. Thank you.
For those who are interested in how to create TLS/SSL certificates for Gentoo, take a look at the Virtual Mailhosting System with Postfix Guide. In order to extend the validity of the certificates to 10 years, you need to edit a couple of files:
in /usr/sbin/mkimapdcert, replace
/usr/bin/openssl req -new -x509 -days 365 -nodes \
with
/usr/bin/openssl req -new -x509 -days 3650 -nodes \
in /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf, set
default_days = 3650 # how long to certify for
(note that strangely, the default settings in /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf override the custom settings in /etc/ssl/misc/CA.pl)
By chance I seem to have finally “solved” the annoying context menu lag on my TabletPC! :)
How was it done? I just installed the “Matroska Pack Full v1.1.1” (which contains many common audio and video codecs) and enabled its context menu extension. The most obvious (but not necessarily true) explanation is that installing Matroska’s context menu extension somehow fixed the context menu bug which was presumably introduced by upgrading my TabletPC to Windows XP SP2.
Now I’m really happy that my productivity is not restrained by this bug anymore :)
An interesting study by Accenture about “IT-Trends und IT-Governance
in der Schweiz” (unfortunately in German only):
Security awareness and IT efficiency/productivity improvements are top topics among CIOs in Switzerland for the next 12 to 24 months. The fact that most CIOs prefer standard software in the back-office and custom SW at the frontend remind a bit of the “window polishing” phenomenon known from management accounting but are in accordance with general business developments in highly developed and saturized markets (like in Switzerland). The products’s cores become more and more similar while the “wrappings” make the difference for consumers.
If you encounter a message like
grep: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.4/libstdc++.la: No such file or directory.
when emerging php, mod_php or elfutils, take a look at the following page for the solution: