Happy New Year!

The year 2009 with it’s many trends is over. Even online projects like Twitter, Google Wave and Co. has been used or will be used by many people.

I am excited to see, which trends we will have in 2010. Will HTML5 or CSS3 finaly be finished. I guess not. But we will definitly have some surprises in 2010.

I will try to fetch up some of the upcoming trends and I also try to give you some new thought-provoking impulses. I wish you all a lot of fun with my blog in the next year.

Cheers, yours

Kau-Boy

The Blog has a new domain!

Last weekend I succeeded to move my domain kau-boys.de to my ROOT server. Before doing so I used a frame redirect for this domain. But with a little extra fee and waiting for the term of notice I can now present you the blog with the desired domain.

All external links should still be working correctly as they are rewrited to the new domain. Therefore all of your bookmarks should still work. I hope that Google will soon recognize the moving of the domain and updates it’s results.

I hope that I will be able to provide you more regularly with useful tips in the future. At the moment my master study takes a lot of time and I don’t have the time to do something fun. And beside study I has to work a little as studying isn’t for free.

Now I wish you a lot of fun with my blog!

Bernhard

@My english readers: I am sorry that most of the last posts haven’t been translated, yet. Some of them are only interessting for German readers. And I don’t had the time to translate the longer ones, yet.

Service-desert Germany???

Who does always say that there is no good support in Germany? If it’s than also free, most people don’t beliefe in good quality. I have to confess that I know this kind of support quite well. Most of the time you can’t even find a phone number on their websites and if you write an e-mail through a contact form, you’ll get a automatic answers with the FAQ to a keyword in your text.

But today i found a creditably exception. First I had to write a mail to the support and get an automatic response back. But the first diffrence was the response time of about 3 hours. And the second one was that the support staff called me, as he tought that he can’t explain the solution on a mail. In the following one hour telephone conversation he solved all my problems (and some additional problems as well). He was very professional and notices how much technical jargon I can handle and what he has to explain more detailed. That wasn’t my first positive support experience but one that really surprised my gladly.

To not make surreptitious advertising I just a small note to the supplier. It’s a antivirus company who’s product names are similar to a group in a real-time strategy game series.

My first blog

I finally decided to set up my first blog. I decided to do that after I had to work with WordPress for my employer. I was searching for a nice auto complete plugin like the one used at Google Suggest. But I haven’t found a good one. So I determined to write my own little plugin for this feature.

After having coded a good first version I wanted to share it with the community. So I first build a small website to present the plugin. I also tried to translate the page using the gettext functionality of php which I finally solved successfully after many hard tries.

But then I decided to present the plugin where it’s supposed to be presented, in a blog. User can than also easiliy test it, being always up to date and see the changes.

I don’t know what the future post will be about. But it will mostly have to do with webdevelopment. I hope you enjoy reading the blog and you’ll get some new ideas. I would like to hear your comments and what you you would like to have as future features.