Friday, November 17, 2006
After some sucessful searching the web with the Ask Search Engine I thought about trying the “Ask Desktop Search” Software. I needed to index my pdfs, so I could do a full text search on them. Apparently, this little program does not send my data out onto the web, like googles desktop search does. A [...]
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Friday, November 10, 2006
Here in Europe, we have the weekly EuroMillions Lottery. As of today, 10th of November 2006, there were 243 Million Euros to win (That is USD 310’588’020, aka 310 Mio $). Of course everybody tried thier luck… My lucky numbers for today were these: 14 22 35 38 44 – 3 7 01 13 21 [...]
Saturday, November 4, 2006
A friend of mine told my yesterday about the search engine Ask. I remembered today when starting to get my hands dirty with the Apache Axis Webservice Framework. I was reading through the User Guide and tried to run their TestClient application. However the URL for the Echo Webservice did not seem to be working. [...]
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Saturday, October 21, 2006
Quite a number of (not-so-tech) friends of mine asked me to put a quick RSS Client Tutorial with a few examples on this blog. So I am happy to do so. Note: This article is targeted at end users who whish to subscribe to RSS feeds, not users who want to learn how to produce [...]
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Thursday, October 5, 2006
Ok. EDV is out. It is the german short for “Elektronische Daten Verarbeitung”. Thats like “Electronic Data Processing” in English. Almost as old school as “the EVA principle”. First time I heard it was once when I took a walk with my dad, back in the 80ies. He told me about DOS, Norton Commander, POKE [...]
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Thursday, October 5, 2006
Well well… just been watching a program on BBC World. Appartenly the second fast growing economy, that is India, after China of course, is running into a shortage of IT professionals. They will face a shortage of IT-savy people in the next few years, they say… well that is if the expected growth rate is [...]
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