Author: erich

  • onsite widget v0.1

    I created a little app to display a tool window on any website you want. The small widget is based on the great prototype window class by Sébastien Gruhier. I just made it work within a website with a little dirty iframe hack. You can see my work in action here. The very cool thing about this widget is, that it stays on top when your are navigation through a specific site.

    This is just a proof of concept release. I will implement soon some improvments, flexibility in the code – maybe port it do java/jsp – and add some demo application that can be used with this widget. I will provide a download soon, so please don’t copy the stuff (source code is mostly viewable) right now.

  • Rezension: AJAX UND PHP

    PHP, eine schon seit Jahren populäre Web-Technologie, wird hier mit AJAX gemischt und man erhält einen Cocktail, der einer zeitgemäßen Web Anwendungen gerecht wird. Das Buch liefert eine breite Grundlage und gute Beispiele, die hervorragend demonstrieren, was mit den beiden Techniken in Kombination machbar ist.
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  • new year – new flavour

    Yeah, something changed here: I spent this day whit optimizing the design of this page. I still do not like the top part, especially the header image, so there will be even more changes in the next few days.

    So whats going on? – Not much. I spent the last 2 weeks on redesigning some of my projects and some bug fixing on openKE. There will be soon much more rumors about this project of mine cause I will start to make some good voice for it and promote on several pages. There are still some features to implement and some security issiues to fix but i think of a launch very soon cause of possible competitors, although it still think it’s a unique idea!

    Some new topics I am thinking on: mobile podcasting and mobile social networking. I’m planning to use some modules of the openKE application to build other community based plattform out of it. Some of my thoughts and future trends can be found here.

  • OpenKE Alpha Launch

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    Now, after 2 and a half month of developing my new project openKE.org is ready fpr a soft launch. Since the last infos i published here, a lot of stuff has changed, too much to list it all here. The User interface is now only in German, but I’m trying to change that in the near future and also made the plattform available in English. Registration is now open for anybody, so give it a try! Like always feedback is very welcome.

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  • Rezension: AJAX Hacks

    Die deutsche Übersetzung von AJAX Hacks ist ein hervorragendes Handbuch für alle, die bereits mit der Entwicklung von dynamischen Webseiten vertraut sind und anhand von praktischen Beispielen rasch in die Thematik einsteigen wollen. Die gut portionierten „Hacks“ liefern fertige Lösungen für konkrete Anwendungen und sind dank hoher Praxisrelevanz gut in bestehende Anwendungen integrierbar.
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  • OpenKE Update 2

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    Another time to present another new logo. Now with more web2.0 flavour. I think this will be the final one. Beta registration for openKE is no open – feel free to register and test the features of the plattform. Development goes on all little bit though, cause I spent most of the time in doing bug fixes or optimizing the code.

    New features will come soon: I’m planning an user rating system based on the number of postet bookmarks, and valuable comments in the groups. I think no community based app can do without such ranking mechanisms to encourage people to be active. Another part I’m currently inplementing is an automatically generated user skill profile based on the data from searches and other action an user makes on openKE. The system will learn from the actions of the user and will group data sets to get a view of the users intrests and maybe also his skills. This feature is a little bit delicate part because of issues like privacy etc.

    I got quite a good feedback from the first user of openKE – thank u for that. Stay tuned for more infos.

  • OpenKE Update

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    This is the new logo of my current projct: openke.org. I made the whole page more in a web2.0 style because nowadays you can’t make such a site without following the formal style guidlines etc…

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    Here are two more screens of the application. Firt the resource page, which I already presented in the last post, but here are several changes made: highlighting of favorites, editable, add to favorites link. The second pic shows my profile. Several properties are click-able and used to search other user with this properties (see at the bottom Interessen und Fähigkeiten!)

    The appliaction is now deployed on the live system and beta testers can register with the form on the index page. When actually the beta will be open is not clear, but i try to made it this week done. I would like to invite you to be part of this beta test and the first users of openKE!

  • Rezension: php design patterns

    Design Patterns, zu Deutsch Entwurfsmuster, sind Lösungsansätze für häufig auftretende Problemfälle in der Software-Entwicklung und vor allem Anwendern von höheren objektorientierten Sprachen wie Java oder C++ ein Begriff. Stephan Schmidt zeigt mit seinem Buch PHP Design Patterns eindrucksvoll, dass sich diese Elemente professioneller Software-Entwicklung auch auf die Scriptsprache PHP übertragen und damit anwenden lassen.
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  • OpenKE Screens

    Development on my newest project openKE moves on quite good. I think I can start the Beta Testing in the Mid of November. Below I insertet 2 screens of the app, so you can gather a quick overview what it look like and what features it will cover.
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    The first Image shows the Resources Page, which is the heart of the application. Here all the open books, videos, elearning courses etc. are stored. There will be soon more details on every resource: a picture of every book for example and so on. I also plan to host several files on a the openKE server to guarantee its accessebility.

    The second pic shows just a forum view of the java proramming intrest group. nothing particular to tell you about that feature. Another Features will be, according to the navigation items you see:
    – Special Intrest Groups with forums for knowhow exchange
    – User and contact management
    – A Skill and Intrest Profile

    Feedback is as usually very welcome. Feature Request? – bring em in!!

  • Tutorial on Moo.Fx

    I’ve created another Tutorial for you: an introduction to the visual effect libary Moo.Fx. Feedback is very welcome Access it here:
    Moo.Fx Tutorial (German)