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Coca-Cola chose IBM DB2

Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated chose to move to DB2 four years ago, and they have saved more than $1 million since. Because of the savings, ease of use, performance and reliability of the software, they are now in the process of upgrading to DB2 10. As Andrew Juarez (Lead SAP Basis and DBA) said, "This thing eats data for lunch."

To learn more about how the power of IBM DB2 10 can free you to find more innovative ways of doing business, visit: IBM DB2 10.


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Magento Search Function

A lot of people do not really understand how search functions work. They are just complaining that the search is not working. This happens for instance in the world of webshops like magento, because the basic search logic uses an OR condition to combine search keywords. Unfortunately, the customer is most of the time expecting an AND condition. So i would recommend to change that code snippet in your magento core engine. For version 1.6.0 you have to replace all occurence of OR through AND in the following files:

  • app/code/core/Mage/CatalogSearch/Model/Resource/Fulltext.php (2x)
  • app/code/core/Mage/CatalogSearch/Model/Resource/Query.php (1x)
  • app/code/core/Mage/CatalogSearch/Model/Resource/Search/Collection.php (2x)


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Lego Space Shuttle

A lego space shuttle launch from Raul Oaida on the 31st of December 2011 took place from central Germany (easy flight clearance) and reached a max altitude of 35000m. A 1600g meteo balloon filled with helium was used alongside a GoPro Hero, Spot GPS and of course Lego Space Shuttle model 3367. The equipment was recovered via GPS tracking 240 km S-E from a remote area.


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Lightkind Studios
Checkout Lightkind Studios in Hamburg city. This new media agency is doing a great job in photography, video production, print and web development.
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Controlled Quantum Levitation on a Wipe'Out Track

This is a short footage on recent work on quantum levitation. It's not sure if this is a kind of trailer for the new WipeOut game from Sony or if really some researchers created this work, inspired by the game. With this new technology, they hope to revolutionize the world of motor transport; Maybe in a near future they could assist to a real Wipe'out race ;)


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WebShop - Fraeuleinzwirn.de

A brand new web shop from Fraeuleinzwirn.de launched last week. It's based on the open source web shop of Magento. Check it out if you like drapery and other lovely things or products from Free Spirit, Riley Blake, Rowan, Tilda, Westfalen ...


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Bitcoin

Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer currency. Peer-to-peer means that no central authority issues new money or tracks transactions. These tasks are managed collectively by the network.


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Relaunch 2011

Relaunch 2011 finished. I changed back from RubyOnRails to PHP. After using ruby for one year, i just can say PHP is much more fun and flexible.

The database is still the same. Additionally, i changed the layout and added some facebook functions. That's it for today.... more will come.


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GoPro HD Kamera

The camera GoPro HD is on of the world's best selling wearable HD cameras for sports. You can comnbine it with your helmet for skiing, snowboarding, etc. or you can use it with your surfboard, or what ever. It's really the best camera for a hero like you ;)


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Kindle vs. iPad

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Windows - Synchronizing for Dummies
If you want to synchronize your backup and your primary hard disk, you can do it very easy with just one single command. I use this command to synchronize my music directory on an external backup disk with my laptop or my pc.

c:\>xcopy /D /E /Y F:\music C:\data\music

This xcopy command copies only those files from F:\music whose source time is newer than the destination time on c:\data\music (D option) and it does it recursively (E option) without prompting you (F option).
If you want to know more about xcopy check the man pages: c:\> help xcopy
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Apache and Skype
Did you now that apache and skype use port 80 as default? So you cannot run both application simultaneously as long as you do not change one of the port numbers. I changed my skpye port and can now start developing again...
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IBM Server

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Computer Apps - My favorite applications
This is a collection of my favorite applications for windows. All applications are free. So if you do not know one of them... check it out. You can add something if you want. I will keep this list up to date... for me and for you:
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IBM DB2 authentication with OpenLDAP
My first IBM/SAP paper describes how to integrate DB2 and OpenLDAP in different environments with SAP applications as an example for a general system landscape. It demonstrates the configuration of an LDAP server and the appropriate LDAP clients, together with some useful hints regarding the use of common LDAP tools, and how you can adapt your SAP systems to use the benefits of OpenLDAP.
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Web 3D with O3D
O3D is an open-source web API for creating rich, interactive 3D applications in the browser. This API is shared at an early stage as part of a conversation with the broader developer community about establishing an open web standard for 3D graphics.
More infos here.
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Wolfram Alpha
The gifted physican Steven Wolfram pronounced a new search engine that will change the information quest of the internet. The site will start next month. A really big community is looking forward to this date. Some are afraid, others cannot wait anymore. We heard already a lot of google killers, but nothing could stop google. Lets see what Wolfram can do...
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Demoscene - Texas by keyboarders

Ranked 1st at NVScene 2008. Just 4k big - if you don't belive it: Here is the download.

More information about the demoscene can be found here.


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Batch script to start or stop VMware services

VMware Server is a free virtualization platform which can be used for running virtual operating systems on your computer. For example you can use VMware to run a linux system on your windows system. The benefit is, that you can easily turn your image back into an old state (snapshot) and you can manage operating systems like applications.

If you work from time to time with VMware Server and you do not want to have all the windows services eating your resources, you could use a script to start and stop the services on demand. Read the full article to get the script. You could easily adapt it and use it to start and stop your own services with the batch file.


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Cuil - A new search engine

The waiting is over. A new search engine occured in the word wide web. The first one that could really be an competition for google. Though the business targets are currently a little bit different as you can read here. Cuil believes that analyzing the Web rather than their users is a more useful approach, so they don’t collect data about you and your habits, lest they are tempted to peek. With Cuil, your search history is always private. So try it out, at cuil.com


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Gimp Scripts - Batch process for resizing images

GIMP is a very good alternative to Photoshop. It is an open source project and it contains nearly all functions as Photoshop. The main difference between these programs is the way of using and finding the adequate functions. You need a little bit time to accustom yourself to GIMP. Though, it’s worth making the effort.

One of the coolest things about GIMP is the script extension called Script-Fu. Script-Fu makes use of the programming language known as scheme a LISP dialect which supports functional programming with a minimalist philosophy.


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CMOR

At least every year i am relaunching my homepage. It all began in 2001 with my first steps in HTML followed by Flash, Javascript, PHP and so on. If you're interested in my web history use the retro link. This is a collection of some examples over the years. Maybe i will also upload the whole pages. Currently, you can only see some screenshots.

Today is the relaunch for 2007 and the technology changed again. It's the time of Web2.0 as you probably know. This means in short everybody can easily use the internet without the need of any special web skills. You can express yourself via Blogs, Community portals and lots of other popular websites.
Actually, nothing really new. For me it's more the technology and concepts that improved a lot over the time and give programmers lots of more possibilities to create innovative websites. AJAX and Ruby On Rails (RoR) are my favorite examples of this advancement. AJAX allows asynchronous processing of data and RoR is a web framework based on the programming language called Ruby. Ruby is 100 percent object oriented and RoR supports the MVC-pattern to name just a few benefits of RoR. My new site it's mainly based on RoR which supports AJAX and all other known web standards. So if you want to read more technical details about my architecture, RoR and other developer stuff, go ahead... otherwise i could recommend the gallery.


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