There's a new classifieds platform here in Austria. The nice thing about Tom Clever is, that it is for free. There are no fees whatsoever involved. One can get overwhelmed by the sheer amount of categories, but the structure makes sense.

The eight categories (communities, hobbies, vehicles, services, contact, real estates, courses and goods of all kind) should be able to hold everything someone would like to sell or buy.

You know about defacing. That's the thing that happens to unsecure web sites. Some people hack them and put their own content up. phpBB is a well known target of defacing, so is phpNuke.

And then there's phishing. Basically setting up fake sites that look like commercial banks or similar institutions. That are set up so you'd have to enter sensitive information which would be collected.

Google Maps is a huge success. And a nice example for another successful Google application. Too bad that there are only maps about US and UK.

Google Earth is the next cartography attempt of Google. And it's even more successful. It is apparently so successfull that Google even had to temporarily disable the download of it. Download? Yes, it's a windows program, based on Direct X.

Administrating users in a content management system sure can be boring. Take phpWebSite. You click on a user. You click on add to group. You scroll down, look for the next user. Oops, wrong one. Let's click on the previous one again and move it back. Aem, drop it back.

Draging and Dropping might be just the spice that's missing here and with Rico it might even be easy to implement. I made a tiny prototype.

One reason, why Typo3 is as successful: It is integrated. It has a workflow, you don't have to leave your web browser while creating your content.

Most CMSes have some sort of image upload capability. But, well, that's about it. You can't just take the picture of your digi cam, which might be more than thousand pixels wide and tall and put it up your web site. No, you need to resize it first. And crop it.

Granted, Ajax is right now the shooting star amongst JavaScript technologies. And it is cool, think about the improved user experience through better responsiveness. But there are other interesting JavaScipt projects too, maybe a bit hidden behind all that glamour that is Ajax.

A very cool library I discovered recently is Walter Zorn's DHTML Library, enabling programmers to support Drag N Drop amongst other things. Crossbrowser compatible.

Bought about two weeks ago a used TG50 without software CD or other Supplementary. Wanted to change from my good old Psion 5mx pro to a new Handheld. An interesting adventure with lots of Problems!

An Article from Andreas from Linz / Austria

Today it occured to me, that my Firefox PR Extension showed PR 5 instead of the PR 4. Just for curiosities sake I did a quick Search for “Pagerank 5” on Google and guess what? It came up with more than 31.000 links!

People are insane. Why would they write about Pagerank 5? Joen Asmussen for example did a note on his blog about it, like this one.

I visited Berlin in February 2005. Why? Because I earned my Bachelor's and my father gave me a ticket as a gift. This trip gave me a reason for finally buying my digital camera. I brought 1.5 GB of photos (663) back, which is why it took me so long to put them online.

But as all festivities must come to an end it was really about time to change that.

Adobe and Macromedia. For years, they've been fighting for users of the same market. Both into creative products, both having similar products. Macromedia Dreamweaver dominated Adobe Pagemill (and later Adobe GoLive, which Adobe acquired in 1999). Adobe Illustrator dominated Macromedia Freehand. And Adobe never got LiveMotion -- its Macromedia Flash rival -- really running.

In case you shouldn't know: Axe Snake Peel is a shower gel that has been introduced somewhere by the end of 2004, if I recall correctly. It's one of these every day products you use and use and forget about it. If you run out of it you simply go to the super market and buy a new one.

A few days ago, the super market had a surprise for me: Axe Snake Peel got a new skin!

It is very impressive how certain Austrian groups know where they belong to. During our first “Photo club” photo-shooting today, klwe and I found a toilet on the Leopoldsberg.

I think, that the caption “NS Art” absolutely fits on toilets. Congratulations to the artists for that!

Some things are so odd, they really make you wonder. Take for example the Austrian freedom party. Basically like the Republicans but (luckily) a minority in Austria.

As a minority, they have to shock people. At least that's what they think. And point with the finger on others.

Great, the new Bounty rolls have 50 percent more sheets! Yeah, that's written on the package in bold letters. But wait. Isn't it quite a bit shorter, too?

Luckily I still had an old roll of Bounty at home and could compare them.

I've been using phpWebSite for about a year now and think that it can be adapted to most content management needs. TYPO3 is leading the open source CMS market right now and has very powerful features no other CMS can offer.

Still, I think phpWebSite is the better choice most of the times. I will show you why.

There's that great listing of 3rd-party modules at the phpWebsite Mainsite. What I haven't found until now is a list of all 3rd-party hacks.

I know, that it is quite big a task to list them all, but I'll do a start. Please add other ones you know about as a comment so we can have a full listing eventually!

Tomorrow morning (2004-02-18) I'll start the 10 hour train ride to Berlin. I'm going there for a weekend and will come back on Monday morning. My father gave me the tickets as a present, because I finished my first academic degree.

Yes, I'm Bachelor. Since November 2004! No, I don't have the certificate yet. I'm looking very forward to Berlin.

Some have attempted to paint tooth-brushing as a victimless crime, arguing that “if you brush your teeth regularly, you improve your dental hygiene, and we are all better off.” This is hardly the case.

“Reducing tooth-brushing offers direct benefits. The equation is a basic one: the lower the rate of tooth-brushing, the larger the dental prosthetic, dental filling, and dental surgical equipment sectors, and the greater the benefits.”

Tommy, aka trf from the phpWebSite forums had an idea. What, if it would be possible to filter your sites' calendar by its category? Like: You select the “Party” category and would only see all parties in your Calendar

Well, I've seen that idea, talked to Tommy and we implemented it. The whole project didn't even take a week and I got a very generous amount of money on my paypal account.

v7 (2005-03-10) instead of simply setting all checkboxes in the category selector to false when the Master category is selected, I commented the whole check out. This wasn't exactly a good idea as it generated an "invalid argument" warning during the foreach loop in CatSel.php. Fixed in this version

Have a lot of visitors from different timezones? Always to late because you're playing around with your homepage? Bored to death and want something that changes after a while on your screen?

Or do you simply want to create your very own phpWebSite module? If you answered yes to any of those questions clock is for you.

0.3 now contains the danish language file, translated by Lasse Skov from LiquidArt. Thank you!

MosMensk from LiquidArt made his first phpWebSite theme available. It is based around the topic “contemporary health”, very clean and nice to look at.

Oh, and it is the first 3rd party thing hosted on kiesler.at!

It is amazing, what talented people can do with flash. I've just stumbled across Orisinals website through a linkdump. There's very fascinating stuff going on.

If you want to reach me, that's easy. Just have a look in this Article.

As soon as I had finished chmod, I've seen request for being able to change the ownership of a file. If you don't have a shell-access and are running phpWebSite, you might try this module!

chmod enables phpWebSite users to change permissions of folders and files through the Control Panel. Comes in handy, if you don't have shell access to your host.

0.1.1 fixes a bug. I forgot to write $this-> in front of genOkMsg. Thanks for Johan den Hollander for noticing!

Ein sehr mächtiges Konzept in Programmiersprachen ist die Möglichkeit, zusammengesetzte Ausdrücke zu verarbeiten. Das Thema Ausdrücke ist Teil des EPROG-Übungstests und wird in diesem Tutorial näher beleuchtet.

php 4.3.10 is right now the recommended php version for running phpWebSite. But: There seem to be performance issues with it! I've read a short note in the Informatik Forum about it that lead to an article on the heise homepage.

Well, today will enter in history as the day where I finally got my Clié Cradle. It came in a lovely, small (almost too small), blue packet.

Here's a summary for the Business English 1 lectures I've been attending this term. Today is the end-test, so it's a bit late. Then again, we did that topic last week so it's not as late as it might seem.

I saw it, I wanted it, I got it. From Sharon. The new kiesler.at design is called Sharonism.

Ich habe für jedes der Kapitel aus der Wissensmanagement Vorlesung einen Artikel mit den ausgearbeiteten Fragen erstellt. Dieser Artikel ist das dazugehörige Inhaltsverzeichnis.

(german only) Zusammenfassung des Abschnitts „Einführung“ der Vorlesung Wissensmanagement.

• Was versteht man unter Wissensmanagement?
• Warum steigt die Bedeutung von Wissen in der Volkswirtschaft?
• Warum ist Wissen in Unternehmen wichtig?
• Was ist Wissen (im Gegensatz zu Information)?
• Welche Arten von Wissen unterscheidet man?
• Warum sieht das Unternehmensmanagement WM als wichtige Aufgabe im Unternehmen an?

(german only) Zusammenfassung des Abschnitts „Unternehmenskultur“ der Vorlesung Wissensmanagement.

• Welche Ebenen des Wissensmanagements unterscheidet man?
• Welche Faktoren der Unternehmenskultur beeinflussen das Wissensmanagement im Unternehmen?
• Welche traditionellen Annahmen bestehen häufig in Unternehmen (Barrieren des Wissensmanagements)?
• Welche Eigenschaften werden von Mitarbeitern erwartet?
• Wie kann eine Mitarbeit beim Wissensmanagement motiviert und honoriert werden?

(german only) Zusammenfassung des Abschnitts „Strategie“ für die Vorlesung Wissensmanagement.

• Welche zwei Ansätze zur Entwicklung einer Unternehmensstrategie gibt es?
• Klassifizieren Sie Wissensressourcen im Unternehmen.
• Welche Ziele können für das Wissensmanagement definiert werden?
• Welche strategischen Optionen hat ein Unternehmen beim Wissensmanagement?
• Wofür definiert man Wissensfelder?
• Wie kann das Wissensmanagement im Unternehmen evaluiert werden?
• Was versteht man unter dem KM Maturity Modell?
• Welche Aspekte werden beim KMMM bewertet?

(german only) Dies ist die Zusammenfassung des Kapitels „Prozess- und Qualitätsmanagement“ der Vorlesung Wissensmanagement. Behandelte Punkte:

• In welcher Beziehung stehen Prozess- und Qualitätsmanagement?
• Was sind die Ziele des QMs?
• Was sind die Ziele des PMs?
• Was versteht man unter einem Leistungsdiagramm?
• Skizzieren Sie den „Regelkreis“ des Wissensmanagementprozesses!
• Nennen Sie Maßnahmen zur Wissensentwicklung!
• Modellieren Sie einen Wissensprozess für die Anerkennung von Lehrveranstaltungen an der TU!

(german only) Dies ist die Zusammenfassung des Kapitels „Personal“ (vom Human Resource Management zu Wissen über Menschen) der Vorlesung Wissensmanagement

• Welche Funktionen werden beim Personalmanagement unterschieden?
• Was versteht man unter Human Resource Management?
• Was versteht man unter einer Job- und Rollenanalyse?
• Beschreiben Sie Skills für einen Tutor!
• Was wird beim Karrieremanagement gemacht?
• Nennen Sie Transaktionen, die bei HR-XML behandelt werden
• Aus welchen Bestandteilen besteht eine Kompetenzbeschreibung in HR-XML?
• Wofür werden vCards verwendet?

(german only) Zusammenfassung des Kapitels über „Funktionen“ der Vorlesung Wissensbasierte Systeme.

• Nennen Sie Systeme zur Wissensspeicherung!
• Welche Unterschiede kann man bei einer Wissenslokalisierung machen?
• Was versteht man unter einer wissensbasierten Suche?
• Was kann alles bei einer Wissensvisualisierung dargestellt werden?
• Wie kann eine Wissensindizierung geschehen?
• Was ist ein Repository?
• Wozu dienen Topic Maps?
• Welche Funktionen sollten zur Verwaltung von Wissen existieren?

(german only) Zusammenfassung des Abschnitts „Wissensengineering“ der Vorlesung Knowledge Management. Wissensengineering ist das ingenieursmäßige Entwickeln wissensbasierter Systeme.

• Skizzieren Sie die Drei-Ebenen Struktur eines wissensbasierten Systems!
• Welche Wissensrepräsentationsmechanismen kennen Sie?
• Womit kann man unsicheres und unscharfes Wissen modellieren?
• Was versteht man unter dem Situationskalkül?
• Nennen Sie drei Inferenzmechanismen!
• Nennen Sie fünf typische Aufgaben, die durch wissensbasierte Systeme gelöst werden!
• Was ist KADS?
• Welche Ebenen werden im Expertisenmodell von KADS unterschieden?

(german only) Zusammenfassung des Abschnitts „Maschinelles Lernen und Case Based Reasoning“.

• Was versteht man unter induktivem Lernen?
• Nennen Sie Arten von Lernen (Psychologie)?
• Welche Lernverfahren kennen Sie?
• Was versteht man unter inkrementellem Lernen?
• Was ist ein Hypothesenraum?
• Skizzieren Sie die Architektur eines fallbasierten Systems!
• Was kann alles in einem Fall enthalten sein?
• Welche Varianten von Fällen gibt es?
• Beschreiben Sie den Fall, wie Sie die Vorlesung besucht haben!
• Wie kann Ähnlichkeit von Fällen modelliert werden?

(german only) Zusammenfassung des Abschnitts „Portal und CMS“ der Vorlesung Wissensmanagement.

• Was zeichnet ein Unternehmens(wissen)portal aus?
• Skizzieren Sie die innere Struktur eines Portals!
• Wozu dient die Personalisierung?
• Nennen Sie Funktionen, die das Teamwork unterstützen!
• Welche Funktionen sollte ein Dokumentenmanagement unterstützen?
• Wozu benötigt man ein Content Management System?
• Skizzieren Sie die Grundstruktur eines CMS
• Nennen Sie die Funktionen eines CMS
• Welche Problembereiche sollte man beim Veröffentlichen berücksichtigen?

Visitors is basically a remix of "Who's online", "Statistics" and an automated spider detection. Right now, it's only a "Who's online light". There are no duplicate entries. Instead, there is an automated dns-lookup and a display of user agent for deities.

1.3 improves compatibility with newer MySQL releases. It also includes additional analysis for Contact and Announcement URLs.

Health is a module that checks a couple of things as soon as you are logged in as deity. That way, it ensures a nice and sound environment for phpWebSite and helps discover problems before they occur.

1.1 has been released earlier than planned. Manual mode from 1.0 contained the wrong checksum, as noticed by billypurdue. 1.1 has a working manual mode as well as a new “show user variables” tool.

What good is a lock, if the rest of the bike is stolen anyway? I'd like to share a picture I took a while ago.

If you think about a content management system, you usually want to have a collection of text documents within it. A collection of your content. That's what I use Article Manager for in phpWebSite.

While some might say, phpWebSite has too much of everything, I don't agree. One thing is missing for quite some time in its native Bulletin Board: Subforums!

I have hacked phpwsbb a bit and came up with folders - Containers for phpWSBB Forums. Enjoy!

The Guide to Grammar and Writing from the Connecticut Community Colleges has a lot of interactive quizzes (more than 170). As only fourteen of them are recommended for our Business English 1 course, I made a compilation for me.

2005-04-18 as tomorrow is our mid-term test for Business English 2 and all links were broken, I've given this directory an overhaul.