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OSDC — Meeting of the pro geeks

On Wednesday and Thursday, I’ll be in Nuremberg again for this year’s Open Source Datacenter Conference. It has a great lineup, for example: Kris Buytaert, Devops evangelist and fellow Drupalista Kristian Köhntopp, with whom I shared an employer and still share the pleasure of drinking whisky Kenny Gryp and Alexey Kopytov from the MySQL experts [...]

I bought the Steve Jobs book

And it actually is an interesting read. I had listened to the older biography by Steven S. Young when I started my Audible subscription in 2006 but can’t remember much. The Isaacson book refreshes my memory and gives me a good overview on Jobs’ development as a person. But that’s not what I want to [...]

Two very different acquisition notices I received today

Dimdim: Dimdim has been acquired by salesforce.com. Your free Dimdim account will remain active until March 15, 2011. After that date, you will no longer be able to access your free Dimdim account. Please see the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for additional information. We appreciate your understanding, and we thank you! Pursuant to the Dimdim Terms of Use [...]

Why is everyone talking about chocolate?

Well, I understand that it’s a big deal…

The music industry finally lost their last stronghold. The iTunes Store has become the music distribution channel of the digital age. But Steve, when this thing so important to you that you even give it the apple.com homepage, then why let an intern do the photoshopping?

Having a smooth day

This morning, I woke up. And I mean, for the first time since I went to bed! Which is unusual because over the last weeks, Amalia either woke me up by walking up to my bedside in her sleeping bag in the middle of the night or simply because she has a bit of a [...]

DevOps – Zehn Tipps für Entwickler

http://evan.bottch.com/2010/09/16/devops-ten-tips-for-developers/ 1. Verstehe die Beweggründe 2. Beziehe Ops frühzeitig ein 3. Ein Team 4. Ziehe die persönliche Kommunikation vor 5. Ops ist ein Endanwender (und ein Teammitglied) 6. Teile Verantwortung 7. Gib nicht nur Bestellungen auf 8. Halte Versprechen ein 9. Missbrauche die Freundschaft nicht 10. Bilde dich weiter Und zuletzt noch ein Nachtrag in [...]

Amazon bietet eigenes Linux-AMI für EC2

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2010/09/introducing-amazon-linux-ami.html “Many of our customers have asked us for a simple starting point for launching their Linux applications inside of Amazon EC2 that is easy to use, regularly maintained, and optimized for the Amazon EC2 environment. Starting today, customers can use Amazon Linux AMI to meet these needs.  This just adds to the great selection [...]

The Candy Black Studio

via candyblackblog.com A dream of an office! (via @jkleske)

Google Streetview: Die Stunde der Hypokriten

Wenn ich als Bürger schon nicht verhindern kann… dass in meinem neuen Reisepass Fingerabdrücke und per Funk lesbare RFID-Chips installiert werden dass meine Kontobewegungen überwacht werden dass mein Kommunikationsverhalten registriert werden soll dass ich in vielen Städten auf Schritt und Tritt von unzähligen Überwachungskameras gefilmt werde dass ich auf Flughäfen in Zukunft durch einen Nacktscanner [...]