http://www.hafenscher.net/blog personal website of Wolfgang Hafenscher Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:40:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Today's award for best use of Web2.0 technologies goes to Facebook user David F. By automatic instant upload of a life photograph (most probably taken with an iPhone) to his Facebook account he managed to become internet-famous super quickly. Sadly for him not in the good sense of internet-famous. If you ... http://www.hafenscher.net/blog/archives/325 If you are in the online marketing business as well chances are hight that you also might have had to deliver GIF or Flash banners to online ad networks sometime during your career. When you are creating many different sets of banners for different customers it can be hard to ... http://www.hafenscher.net/blog/archives/318 For almost 10 years I am engaged in web development and still no project is like the other. Evey project has it's own character and brings a lot of new people you have to deal with during development. And I think exactly that is what makes the business so interesting. ... http://www.hafenscher.net/blog/archives/282 Just when I thought captcha systems are getting dumber and dumber there pops up a very nice talk about the usefulness of solving captchas. But first I want to show you a captcha which Google presented to me some time ago. Do you have any idea what that is supposed to ... http://www.hafenscher.net/blog/archives/278 I surely do not blog a lot but today I experienced what I feared for a long time: Orange is evil (at least compared to One, the mobile network operator which was absorbed by Orange last year). Once upon a time there was this fresh, young, stylish, really great Austrian mobile ... http://www.hafenscher.net/blog/archives/276 Anybody using the Zend Framework (or any other php script using set_include_path() ) might already have experienced problems with set_include_path() at one time or another. Most Zend Framework implementations (including implementations from the reference guide) are using set_include_path() within the bootloader.php file to setup the correct include path for the Zend ... http://www.hafenscher.net/blog/archives/272 Farewell everyday life. For the next month we are visiting family in Japan again. Yes. You read it correctly: four complete weeks in Toyko. It has been a busy time since January 1st. Running a business as a one-man-show can make your life really busy. But in this case busy ... http://www.hafenscher.net/blog/archives/270 About two weeks after getting rid of most of my online community accounts I just read a great summary of another person feeling the same. The article really sums up things nicely in words I never would have been able to put so well together. From a webdeveloper's point of view ... http://www.hafenscher.net/blog/archives/268 It was a long journey to this point. Since 2001 (more than 7 years) IE6 was the webdevelopers constant companion. Within the last years it more or less transformed into webdevelopers constant nightmare. Countless hours went into "fixing" modern CSS layouts to render correctly in IE6. Over time you somewhat get ... http://www.hafenscher.net/blog/archives/266 In the past months I spent quite a lot time on building up my web profiles, always keeping them up-to-date, opening groups, searching for new people. Today something happened. Something big. Just like with hanging out in online chatrooms in the late 90s I decided to get my real life ... http://www.hafenscher.net/blog/archives/260