Revision as of 10:09, 18 October 2008

Here is what I always wanted to say:

Applications

For my mind is so little I need to write down software that fascinated me. You can participate by reading!

• analyze source code using doxygen and SourceNaviGator
• show a traffic summary on your web server with Wusage
• schedule meetings with www.doodle.ch and Meeting Wizard
• manage the inventory of your datacenter with phpEquiMon
• lock and unlock your screen automatically with BlueProximity (cool idea)
• keep a USB disk as backup and sync it with one or several computers with Unison
• plan your appartment furniture with sweet home 3d
• to simulate keypresses, use xautomation

Essays

Innovations

All innovations have faced mis-understanding at the beginning. Here are some examples:

• An internet connection cost 8 DM + Traffic when it was introduced. So I said the internet will never gain momentum. Because with the internet, I could write mails for free. With every mail, I could replace a letter for 1.10 DM. So the internet would only pay off if I substituted more than 7 letters to friends by mail. And I never wrote 7 letters in a month!

Cool Links

• Joel on fire and motion
• Joel on user interfaces, part 1
• Joel on user interfaces, part 3

Home of the sentence "And believe you me, users care about a lot less things than you might think. They are using your software to accomplish a task."

• Joel on Pricing Strategies
• Joel on Leaking Abstractions
• there should be an option to disable eating all my email

Where I contribute

There are some open-source projects where I contribute code:

• KDE
• X.org
• mediawiki

Also, I contribute to some wikis:

• ThorstenStaerk on wiki.linuxquestions.org
• ThorstenStaerk on www.man-wiki.net
• ThorstenStaerk on de.wikipedia.org
• ThorstenStaerk on en.wikipedia.org
• Tstaerk on techbase.kde.org
• ThorstenStaerk on userbase.kde.org
• Tstaerk on en.opensuse.org
• tstaerk on wiki.kde.org

Also, here on www.staerk.de/thorsten, you find programs from me, but in case I regard them as useful, I also put them on http://www.freshmeat.net. If I find my tutorials useful, I put them into one of the above wikis.

Topics

• Our philosophy club