Meine pinboard.in-Links vom 19. November bis zum 8. Dezember:

• Anki – is a program which makes remembering things easy. Because it is a lot more efficient than traditional study methods, you can either greatly decrease your time spent studying, or greatly increase the amount you learn.
• Ledger – is a powerful, double-entry accounting system that is accessed from the UNIX command-line. This may put off some users, as there is no flashy UI, but for those who want unparalleled reporting access to their data, there really is no alternative.
• Glances – is a CLI curses based monitoring tool for both GNU/Linux and BSD.
• Gow – (Gnu On Windows) is the lightweight alternative to Cygwin. It uses a convenient "Windows installer" that installs about 130 extremely useful open source UNIX applications compiled as native win32 binaries.
• Breevy – is a TextExpander clone for Windows. Snippets are syncable between Mac and Windows via Dropbox.
• Vifm – is a ncurses based file manager with vi like keybindings. If you use vi, vifm gives you complete keyboard control over your files without having to learn a new set of commands.
• blockdiag – and its family generate diagram images from simply text file
• Archipel – is a solution to manage and supervise virtual machines. You can use all libvirt-supported virtualization engines like KVM, Xen, OpenVZ or VMWare. You can perform all basic virtualization commands and many other things like live migration, VMCasts, packages, etc.
• stressdrive – is a Mac OS X command-line tool meant to verify correct operation of a drive. It does so by filling a drive up with random data and ensuring all the data can be correctly read back.
• ThinkUp – is a free, open source web application that captures all your activity on social networks like Twitter, Facebook and Google+.

Meine pinboard.in-Links vom 21. März bis zum 3. April:

• Boxer – plays all the MS-DOS games of your misspent youth, right here on your Mac.
• Vim Recipes – is a free cookbook for Vim, the popular text editor. It does not replace Vim's excellent built-in documentation, but complements it by focussing on tasks rather than commands.
• WinSplit Revolution – is a small utility which allows you to easily organize your open windows by tiling, resizing and positioning them to make the best use of your desktop real estate
• flashbake – A seamless source control solution combines the convenience of automated back up with the power of source version control.
• ScraperWiki – is a platform for writing and scheduling screen scrapers, and for storing the data they generate
• The Motherfucking Manifesto For Programming, Motherfuckers – We are tired of XP, Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall, Software Craftsmanship (aka XP-Lite) and anything else getting in the way of…Programming, Motherfucker.
• How to use iWeb to build a killer frontpage for your Facebook Fan Page. –
• PHP-RegExp-Tutorial – Ausführliche, deutschsprachige Informationen zum Aufbau und zur Verwendung von Regulären Ausdrücken in PHP.
• CLCL – Is a clipboard caching utility for Windows. Works with text and files.
• git-friendly – is a collection of shell scripts for automating basic git workflows that you probably find yourself typing over and over again.

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 15. Oktober bis zum 20. Oktober:

• Remote Desktop Connection Manager – manages multiple remote desktop connections. It is useful for managing server labs where you need regular access to each machine such as automated checkin systems and data centers. It is similar to the built-in MMC Remote Desktops snap-in, but more flexible.
• taskpaper.vim – TaskPaper file-type plugin and syntax file for vim
• NameChanger – is designed for the sole purpose of renaming a list of files.
• ruby-warrior – This is a game designed to teach the Ruby language and artificial intelligence in a fun, interactive way.
• Scribo – is a LaTeX editor which focuses on navigation in large documents with multiple files. Scribo brings a live outline of your document which displays all \part, \chapter, \section etc. It even displays file includes (both \input, \include and \bibliography) which results in rapid access to the entire document.
• Latexian – is a revolutionary, new LaTeX editor for the Mac. Latexian provides advanced tools for creating and typesetting LaTeX documents. Using Latexian's Live Preview, you can see how your document typesets while you are editing it.
• An Illustrated Guide to Git on Windows –
• Sprachauswahl bei Git on Windows (msysgit) – Unfassbar missverständliche deutsche Übersetzungen in msysgit abschalten.
• Screenpresso – Das beste Windows Screenshot-Tool ever.
• Task Coach – is a simple open source todo manager to keep track of personal tasks and todo lists.

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 21. Juli bis zum 30. Juli:

• CloudBerry Backup – provides a powerful Backup and Restore programfor Windows, designed to leverage Amazon S3 storage to make your disaster recovery plan simple, reliable, and affordable.
• TaskMate – Very simple, minimal and free ToDo-List manager…
• sigil – is a multi-platform WYSIWYG ebook editor. It is designed to edit books in ePub format.
• Fossil – Simple, high-reliability, distributed software configuration management
• pymacadmin – A collection of Python utilities for Mac OS X system administration.
• Notes – is designed to focus on organizing plain text notes that are saved automatically. Just write your note and don't worry about saving them.
• Shotwell – Open source photo manager for GNOME which looks a lot like iPhoto…
• Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud im Test – Windows Pro blickt über den Tellerrand und testet die Ubuntu Cloud Lösung auf Basis von Eucalyptus.
• The version controlled home directory – managing dotfiles using Git, MR and a few handy scripts…
• Versioning dotfiles in git –

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 1. Juni bis zum 29. Juni:

• The Upside of Downtime (Velocity 2010) – Great presentation about why Downtime sucks and how to appreciate this fact.
• One Thing Well – My Linux Setup – Pretty awesome minimal linux setup including some great software hints…
• sneakernet – is designed as a 99% offline campus filesharing network to distribute gigabyte-sized files to a network of upwards of several thousand users who all live within a square mile or so.
• Gitbox – is a Mac OS X graphical interface for Git version control system. In a single window you see branches, history and working directory status.
• Splunk – indexes data from any application, server or network device. It crawls logs, metrics, and other data from applications, servers and network devices and indexes it in a searchable repository from which it can generate graphs, reports and alerts.
• Git Reference – This is meant to be a quick reference for learning and remembering the most important and commonly used Git commands. The commands are organized into sections of the type of operation you may be trying to do, and will preset the common options and commands needed to accomplish these common tasks.
• Q10 – is a simple but powerful text editor designed and built with writers in mind. Windows only.
• mcollective – is a framework to build server orchestration or parallel job execution systems.
• damnvid – is a cross-platform application to download and convert videos from your hard drive or from dozens of video sharing websites like YouTube, Dailymotion, Veoh, Metacafe, etc. Basically, it's a video downloader and converter that sucks less.
• Objective-C Tutorial – Ein Tutorial zu Objective-C, XCode und Cocoa

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 4. März bis zum 23. März:

• collectd – is a daemon which collects system performance statistics periodically and provides mechanisms to store the values in a variety of ways, for example in RRD files.
• CSVed – is an easy and powerful CSV file editor, you can manipulate any CSV file, separated with any separator.
• Simple Desktops – is a collection of desktop wallpapers curated by Tom Watson designed to make your computer beautiful without distraction.
• Continuous Integration – is a software development practice where members of a team integrate their work frequently, usually each person integrates at least daily – leading to multiple integrations per day. Each integration is verified by an automated build (including test) to detect integration errors as quickly as possible. Many teams find that this approach leads to significantly reduced integration problems and allows a team to develop cohesive software more rapidly. This article is a quick overview of Continuous Integration summarizing the technique and its current usage.
• Ultimate solution to weird UTF character encoding problem – Due to different formats of storing characters in the database, sometimes you may encounter problem with strange characters (like —) appearing in your WordPress posts. This can especially happen when moving the site to a different server, a process during which your database needs to be exported and imported.
• Why Your Employees Are Losing Motivation – Business literature is packed with advice about worker motivation—but sometimes managers are the problem, not the inspiration. Here are seven practices to fire up the troops. From Harvard Management Update.
• smitten kitchen Recipe Index – Fearless cooking from a tiny kitchen in New York City with delicious photos…
• Uniform – masks your standard form controls with custom themed controls. It works in sync with your real form elements to ensure accessibility and compatibility.
• vi Complete Key Binding List – This is not intended as a tutorial. It is a reference on what every vi key binding does, followed by some useful vi tricks and tips. An expert will probably know most of these already, but an intermediate vi user will find valuable information, and even an expert may learn a thing or two.
• Ephemera – will comfortably synchronize your ebook reader with Instapaper.com via USB. It works with the Amazon Kindle, Sony readers and pretty much any device capable of reading HTML, Mobipocket or EPUB files.

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 22. Juli:

• Ad-Hoc Verses Structured System Management – Great article about structured Management for Servers and other IT-stuff.
• Spacewalk – is an open source Linux systems management solution. It is the upstream community project from which the Red Hat Network Satellite product is derived.
• The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code –
• Backup FAQ im Chip-Forum – Sehr gute Vorstellung von verschiedenen Backupszenarien unter Windows. Dazu eine Tonne Links.
• logcheck – brilliantly simple log monitoring

Meine del.icio.us-Links vom 6. Februar bis zum 15. Februar:

• Memtest86+ on Intel Mac – With slight modification of a patch for the Grub bootloader, it will run on Intel Macs. Ready to test with the prebuild ISO-Image.
• A black OS X Leopard Terminal theme that is actually readable –
• Desktop 2 Login – Matches the Leopard Login Screen background image to whatever the current user’s Desktop picture is.
• NightShift – automatically downloads and updates WebKit, the Safari HTML rendering engine, to the latest nightly version. No user intervention is required, everything is fully automated.
• m0n0wall-CMI – is a centralized management interface to manage m0n0wall devices remotely.
• flickrRSS for WordPress – This plugin for WordPress allows you to display Flickr photos on your weblog. The plugin supports user, public and group photostreams.
• mastering regular expressions in php –
• iSpazz – is a plugin for iTunes on OS X, controlling the MacBook Pro/PowerBook backlight keyboard and optionally the display backlight.
• Automatically backup your Mac to Amazon S3
• Phatch – is a simple to use cross-platform graphical Photo Batch Processor and Exif Renamer with a nice graphical user interface.
• Instapaper – Temporary Storage for Websites you want to read later but find now.
• DriveGauge – is a simple yet powerful, fully customizable utility designed to provide visual feedback about how full your drives are directly on each drive’s icon.
• UltraStar.de – ist ein kostenloses und quelloffenes Karaokeprogramm im Stil von SingStar. Leider nicht für Macs…

Das neue WordPress 2.3 ist als DE-Edition raus und bringt einiges an Neuerungen mit.

Dazu gehört auch ein neues, eigenes Tag-System. Dieses System ist allerdings nicht so feature-rich wie das von mir eingesetzte simple tagging plugin. So fehlen unter anderem Tag-Management Funktionen (löschen, umbenennen, mergen, …) und Type-Ahead-Vorschläge beim taggen der Beiträge.

Das neue Tag-System kann aber schon bestehende Simple-Tags importieren (ebenso wie andere WordPress-Tag-Systeme).

Ich denke solange ich meine ungetaggten Beiträge nicht fertig getaggt habe (sind ja nur noch ein paar Hundert…), werde ich mit dem Update noch warten… Zumindest solange es noch Security-Updates für die Version 2.2.3 gibt.

Wer sich ähnliche Gedanken macht sollte zumindest mal einen Blick auf die Zehn Dinge die du über WordPress 2.3 wissen solltest werfen, oder besser direkt in den Codex gucken.

(via: dem nun obsoleten WordPress UpdateMonitor Plugin)

Manchmal ist diese Binsenweisheit der IT hochgradig kontraproduktiv, nämlich immer dann wenn man erst dann handelt wenn gar nichts mehr geht.

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Wird ein System höchstens symptomatisch betreut, entwickelt es durch kurzsichtig und ohne Rücksicht auf den Gesamtzusammenhang durchgeführte Flickschusterei immer mehr Ungereimtheiten, die es einem neuen Sysadmin unmöglich machen, sich in das System zuverlässig einzuarbeiten. Wenn die Betreuung des Systems irgendwann immer schneller wechselt, weil niemand sich mehr damit herumärgern will, oder das System auch nur lange genug nicht mehr angefaßt wird, ist niemand mehr in der Lage, es zuverlässig zu betreiben geschweige denn wieder in einen sauberen Zustand zu überführen.

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Sollte der geneigte Leser dieser Zeilen also einen Job in der IT haben, so führe er sich sich doch bitte den Vortrag von Benedikt Stockenbrand(pdf) zu Gemüte.

(via: yauh.de)