Author: erich

  • 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)

  • OpenKE News

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    The last few days I was working hard on my open knowledge community project (formerly anounced as openiktbook). I decided to change the name into OpenKE, which means open knowledge enviroment or exchange – i’m not quite sure at this stage about the name. I registered the domain openke.org for this project, already symbolising the non profit character of it. As you can see I’ve made a few logo design for the page – my favorite is the one that I inserted at the top. Feedback is very welcome!!

    Besides a little bit of artwork I spent a lot of time on the architecture, database design of the whole application. The DB strucure is at this stage done and I’m just optimizing the queries and so on. For your intrest: I made a own approach of a tagging implementation, which is actually not that new cause also utw uses it, but the performance and handling of it is quite good. I dont’ think it could be done significant better. If you are intresting in this information I can write a tutorial on it. It’s quite hard to find infos on building a tagging implementation on the net, so I think it’s a good recource for all of you.

    I don’t talk much about the features of this application, cause I just keep thinking on new cool features and this and that…There’s no clear picture of it in my mind at this stage, so I can just tell you that is is about free knowledge resources like book, videos of conferences, free e-learning courses and so…This is one part, another is the interaction between the users on the plattform. To prove that I’m not talking shit, here are my notes on the features:

    ---Global Feature List----
    - Resources Area
    * Tags/Tagcloud/Taglist
    *Popular Searches/
    *Latest and Popular Stuff Lists
    - Knowledger Area
    *Visualisation of all resources
    *ability to discover new field of intrest
    - Exchange Area
    *Forum
    *e-learning courses
    _ User Profile
    * Skill Table
    - Popular Searches
    - Log User interaction for a user profile

  • Tutorial on RSS

    I made a little tutorial on how to create a dynamic generated rss feed for a news scipt for example. The tutorial is written for intermediate experienced people, having knowlegde in php development and a little bit of mysql. But also Beginners could learn from it how rss works. You can access it here:
    RSS Feed Tutorial (German)

  • Launched mobileajax.de

    For the last few days I have been working on my mobile ajax and mobile web2.0 project. The first step was just to create a blog with an individual style and some content. Follwing in the next week there will be more and more content and maybe just a few demos on mobile ajax.

    For those who have no idea what mobile web2.0 and so on is, i would like to recommend you the book Mobile Web2.0 by Ajit Jaokar and Tony Fish. I have read a few chapters of it and I’m really exited. I brought some ideas also in my thesis but this book deals more in detail with the new paradigma in the mobile content industry.

  • Finished study

    Yeah, i did it.
    Today was my in german so called “Diplomprüfung”, which was the final exam in my study!! And i did quite well. A 2 is quite satisfactory for me. So, another step in my life is over, let’s see what future brings…

  • Master Thesis

    “Das Potential von User Generated Content im Mobilfunk am Beispiel eines Konzepts für ein Mobile Blogging Portal in Österreich”
    (ger/112 pages/PDF) – Master Thesis at FH Informationsberufe on how to implement a sucessfull moblog portal

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  • Starting learning…

    Shure I have started learning for my exam weeks before , but now I expierience the last 2 weeks before the big day. Besides, my finished master thesis has been graded with a 2 (B) – which is quite satisfactory for me. I’ll start to send out the papers and all other infos which are not in the work to my supporters soon. If anyone really reads this blog: I’m looking forward for a new job by mid september. So please contact me if there’s a current possibilty in your company!