Tuesday January 5, 2010
I wish everybody a happy new year! In 2009 Emil started to walk (and many more things), Petra got back to work at employer, and I started my own business.
Looking forward to 2010.
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Saturday November 14, 2009
After working for almost 8 years in three different companies, today I started working full-time for my own business. I always wanted to do it, but now it was time to go full-on. The funny side note is that I am starting on a Friday, 13th. 
What we do at K15t Software (K15t is a shortcut for my last name, which is too hard to spell for almost everyone):
So, here comes the plug: If you want to do single source publishing from Atlassian Confluence or have always thought about using Wikis/Confluence for documentation, you should drop me an email. 
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Thursday January 8, 2009
2009 will be interesting. This is the last entry of this series of posts, about my thoughts/wishes about technological improvements in 2009. Previous entries: Really Rich Internet Applications, Easy JavaScript for Everyone, Databases and Persistence, Distributed Version Control.
Wiki-based documentation will become the single source for documentation in 2009. While wikis have been great for collaboratively created documentation ever since, the problem is that they are not very well export their contents to other formats in order to ship documentation as printed books or integrated online help. DocBook export is needed here.
I have requested this[1] for my favourite wiki[2] back in 2004 with no luck. However, this year we will ship a solution[3] for this. The Scroll Wiki Exporter for Confluence lets wiki-users export their documentation from trees of wiki pages to DocBook and PDF. Eventually we will support other output formats, pluggable, themes, and much more.
[1] Feature request for DocBook Export: CONF-762
[2] Atlassian Confluence
[3] Scroll Wiki Exporter
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Thursday January 1, 2009
I wish everybody a Happy New Year!
(Photo by Michael Sutter)
2008 has been really great: I spent 6 weeks in Singapore (4 in Feburary + 2 in July) to help building a development team, got married with Petra, Emil was born. I can’t get much better!
At work, things became increasingly interesting, when I started working on HTML-based UI development. 10 years after I started my career in an internet agency hacking HTML and JavaScript for Netscape 3 and IE 3, things have improved a lot.
I am very excited about what 2009 has in store.
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Sunday August 3, 2008
Mr. Emil Kleineikenscheidt is here. Emil Kleineikenscheidt ist hier
Mother and baby are both doing well. The Emil’s data: 49cm, 3250g, 35cm (head diameter). Mutter und Kind geht es gut. Emils Daten: 49cm, 3250g, 35cm (Kopfumfang).
This is a very special day. Es ist ein aufregender Tag.
Update: The hospital has added Emil to the baby gallery.
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Friday February 29, 2008
This February I spent in Singpore to help building up a development team at the new Bosch IT office. We are building a platform for workflow applications based on JIRA. More details about that maybe in a later post.
My personal highlights were:
I am writing this at Changi Airport, so quickly a few pictures before I head to the gate:
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Wednesday February 13, 2008
Today was a good day for Australia. During an internship at the North Queensland Rural Health Training Center in 2000 I was made aware about who indigenous Australians were treated until the 1970ies. Today, Primeminister Kevin Rudd said sorry to all indigenous Australians and the stolen generation.
This is good news at last.
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Friday August 31, 2007
Written on Jan 10, 2008 as reminder for myself:
On Aug 31 I climbend Mount Bishorn (German article) in Switzerland together with my brothers Gerold and Robert.
On Aug 30 we drove from Stuttgart Germany to Zinal, Switzerland (in the Valais Alps) and ascended up to Cabane de Tacuit (3,256 m). On the next day got up at 5am and climbed the summit (4,153 m). Although the ascent was technically relatively easy, it was one of the most exhausting experiences I have made. The next time I will take care to acclimatize better.
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Sunday July 29, 2007
Last week I went to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for a workshop with colleagues from Australia, China, India and Japan. On the agenda were topics around our global EAI platform. It was really good to eventually meet the people, I only knew from the phone.
Luckily we were able to fly into KL on Saturday morning, so we had some time to adjust to the local time (for us Germans that is -6h time difference) and to get around the city a bit. On Saturday went to the Petronas Towers Skybridge and walked around the Kampung Baru night market. On Sunday we walked around China town, where we got wet feet. See pictures below.
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Monday April 30, 2007
Yesterday I went climbing with Andreas at Wiesfels near my home town, Metzingen. On our way back Andreas shot this perfect picture with his phone camera (for the record: a Sony Ericsson K800i).
Posted on Apr 30, 2007 at 23:18 (MET) | Permalink | 1 comment
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