Hi there. My name is Oliver and this is my blog. I live in Switzerland, I'm a graphic designer & web dev for a living and when I'm not doing that, there's gaming, photography, music, lolcats, … :P
One of those oneliners that make your life a lot easier..
# ~/.screenrc # Make xterm scrolling work properly with screen (works for terminal.app, too). termcapinfo xterm-256color|xterm-color|xterm|xterms|xs|rxvt ti@:te@
Allows you to scroll back in screen without having to go to scrollback-mode.
Little Inferno: I loved World of Goo and I ended up buying it for more or less every platform. And boy did I enjoy Little Inferno. :) Literally made me stick to the iPad for 3 hours straight. Available for iOS and Android. The game has an official website.
OMFG, massive multiplayer Bomberman: Atomic Bomberman still is one of my favourite multiplayer "party" games (it was released in 1997). Bombermine.com offers an HTML5 flavoured variant based on the same gameplay with hundreds of players on one single map. Say goodbye to your productivity.
ownCloud easily replaces Dropbox: A wonderfully simple PHP file management and synchronisation application with SQLite support (upload, create user, done) and can be installed basically on every shared hosting account. Provides synching clients for Linux, Windows and OS X, mobile clients for iOS and Android. And it kinda works. The synch client's UI is a bit shaky but hey, it's free. Should even work pretty much on every NAS with Apache and PHP 5.3+ (in other words: congrats, you just got a 2TB dropbox :-) ). Head over to their website to get more info.
Probably the worst developer experience in terms of e-commerce solutions I had so far was with Prestashop. Maybe it works for people using nothing but the default theme and replacing their logo. But anything a little more complicated than that results in a mess in one way or another.
I was playing around with CDN, a module for Drupal which provides everything necessary to run your own "poorman's content delivery network". However, in my case it's not really a network of servers, just a simple and cheap way to circumvent some of the HTTP protocols limits of only allowing 2 concurrent connections per host.
I have to admit, I joined the party a little late. That's mostly because I really didn't have the need to go down the "feature-road" so far. There's already tons of "features" floating around and most if not all Drupal distributions rely on this module for one or more .. *snareroll* .. features. :-)
Just remembered: We're getting old, man.. I sometimes remember specific situations and the feeling of awe and respect I felt when I was around 13, talking to someone over 20. You know, the "grown ups". "This guy is *a lot* older than me. Also, he drives a friggin' car." - well, guess who's 30 now (and still doesn't drive a car). Funny. :-)
