Weird Kindle Book Pricing

Malcom Gladwell – Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking Weird Kindle book pricing: amazon.co.uk amazon.com

Another IE 9 bug: Search box

If you try to search for a .NET topic with the new IE 9 you might run into some problems: If you put “.net” as the first keyword, IE9 thinks it’s supposed to open an url instead of querying you configured search engine for it. If you change the order of the query terms, e.g., [...]

Internet Explorer 9 Taskbar Pin Bug

Internet Explorer 9 Beta has been released and includes a cool feature which allows you to ‘Pin’ websites to the taskbar just like regular programs: You could, for example, pin Facebook to the taskbar to use Jumplists to quickly access you News or Messages: However, with all these widescreen displays around today I like to [...]

Java Update Process

The java update process is imho a very bad example (at least the last step) for usability. Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4   So.. WHAT is already installed? The JRE? The specific update? Technorati Tags: Java,Usability,UX

Telefonat Teil 1

“spreche ich dort mit der firma impera?” “keine firma, aber ich betreibe diese seite, ja” “haben sie etwas mit geldspielgeraeten zu tun?” “aeh nein.” “also keine geldspielgeraete?” “NEIN.” “dann entschuldigen sie die stoerung, tschuess” So eine oeffentliche Telefonnummer ist wahrlich ein endloser Quell der Erheiterung!

Concepts won’t be in C++0x

On Monday I heard a talk given by Michael Wong (IBM Canada) and he told us – and he also wrote in his blog – about the last C++0x Standard Committee meeting in Frankfurt, Germany: At this meeting, Concepts, the major feature of C++ 0x, which enables constrained genericity, or template argument prototyping, has been [...]

Microsoft TS 70-536

Last Friday I passed the 70-536 Exam, TS: Microsoft .NET Framework – Application Development Foundation. I had thought it would be much more difficult but in the end it was pretty easy (or I was just well prepared.. maybe both). Next ones will then be 70-562 and 70-564 to reach the Microsoft Certified Developer status [...]

new blog.

After a number of blogs I follow switched from live spaces to wordpress.com, I also decided to give it a try. So far I really like the admin backend and the theme selector. After a long week I just took two days off and enjoyed the beautiful weather (first sunny days in 2009), tomorrow I’ll [...]