Schönes Weihnachtsgeschenk für die liebe Mutti

Generationsübergreifendes Weihnachtsgeschenk:

HTML newsletters - invaluable advanced tutorial

For all those of you that hae struggled for finding the right way to create today's perfect HTML newsletter, here comes the last bit of information I found hard to find: Background images and Outlook!

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My Review of Head First jQuery

Originally submitted at O'Reilly

Head First jQuery

Head First jQuery

Great, but...

By RBloeth from Berlin, germany on 11/27/2011

 

4out of 5

Pros: Well-written, Easy to understand

Cons: Too many errors

Best Uses: Novice, Student, Intermediate

Describe Yourself: Developer

As all Head First books I know so far, also this one is simply great. But: At least the PDF edition I bought 3 days ago contains so many errors that it should undergo serious proof reading again.
The errors are technical, so if you're a beginner and start to learn jQuery with this book, it might cause damage to your understanding.
Dear folks at O'Reilly: Please withdraw the first edition and do your homework. You could then also update the contents to use jQuery 1.7 (e.g. using on() and off() instead off bind() and unbind().
Nevertheless I love this series!

I will definitely recommend this book to my friends as soon as the errors are corrected!

(legalese)

Loving memories...

I've just stumbled upon this animated GIF:

Possibly nice for all (not only new) GIT users

1,5 months ago I started working with GIT, whilst I've been using SVN before. These days I found this really nice tutorial on GIT (I've given the official "pro git" manual a try, but didn't become happy enough):
GIT in a nutshell by Jonas Jusélius. These 20 pages (properly typeset in LaTeX - for those who know what it means) are a really nice hands-on tutorial for everyone who has to quickly dive into the daily GIT usage at work.
Then if things go wrong, this very neat poster might become handy: GIT pretty by Justin Hileman. Print it out and hang it onto the wall next to your working place.

Just fell in love with Sublime Text 2

Icon design by Nate Beaty

 Nate BeatyI just fell in love with the great cross-platform coding text editor "Sublime Text 2" after having read this article on nettuts+.

I have been looking for the ideal text editor for what seems like ages. Under Windows I stuck with Notepad++, whilst most OS X guys use TextMate - if they don't use vim, that is.

Under Ubuntu it was difficult - first I've tried Geany, then used Netbeans. After that I've tried to get used to vim/gvim, then turned over to Komodo Edit, which I really thought would be my final destination. Until I'd given Sublime Text 2 a try. One of the big pro's to me is: It is cross-platform, free to try (and to use, but I've just purchased a license for it, which is valid per person, not per install) and it combines block editing with some of the great TextMate features. Btw you can use all TextMate bundles with Sublime Text 2.

If you've never seen it, give it a try. And of course you can also use it with all your vim shortcuts - read the article on nettuts+ to learn how.

I thought this would be a parody of Erdogan - maybe it is...

The Turkey Dictator

Big Allianz is watching you?

Da scheint es in der Tat spannende Jobs zu geben...

"Bei der Allianz drücken die Datenschützer beide Augen zu", las ich eben auf Telepolis.

Wenn ich diesen Beitrag richtig interpretiere, dann hat die Allianz also ihr eigenes Unternehmen, mit dem sie z.B. säumige oder womöglich laut Expertensystem auffälig gewordene Kunden regelmäßig orten kann - ohne rechtliche Grundlage, und unsere Datenschützer finden das erstrebenswert?

This makes me feel...

Sehr schöne Sache, ich kann es mir lebhaft (o.k., vielleicht nicht ganz so lebhaft) vorstellen:

Touring the Recreated 1969 Birthplace of the Internet at UCLA