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Social and Ethical Responsibilities

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This morning I was attending Zeev Suraskis keynote at the International PHPConference in Mainz/Germany.

He spoke not so much about PHP or new technologies but what happens when technology fails. He gave us an insight into the things that happened around his last holiday in the south of Italy starting with a lost Internet-connection through a malfunctioning lens, a dead GPS-Display and his troubles getting mobile internet-access up to the dead fridge back home.

Besides the strange accumulation of bad luck it again showed me how much we depend on technology.
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What makes a good developer?

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One Day comes the question, what differentiates the good developer from a really good developer.

At that stage the question is not any more whether you can code or even which language it is you code best. Of course you have a “preferred” language that you know very well, but it should only be a matter of weeks to learn a new language from scratch as the principles are more or less the same in all languages. The same design-patterns apply as well as the same control-structures.

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TV-Browser and Growl

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Ever wanted to find an electronic TV-Guide?

Some time ago I found TV-Browser. Very nice Tool.

One fancy feature was the Growl-Integration on MacOS-X.  Well at least until TV-Browser 2.7. Somehow the integration of Growl was broken under MacOS X 10.4. 

The complete information about this can be found in the TV-Browser-Forum

Well at least until yesterday.

I implemented this Patch and – voila – Growl notification works as expected.

For those who do not want to go through the hassle of compiling the plugin themselves:

Here you can download the compiled plugin that works for me under MacOS-X 10.4.11