personal description

Born in the north of Germany, raised in Berlin and stayed there since. After graduating, studying applied computer science at the FHTW Berlin (now HTW Berlin), I started my own company with a former fellow student, providing high class application solutions for web and desktop for small and medium companies (see www.jnamic.com (english version to be finished) for more information). My personal favorite programming languages are PHP for the web and Java for everything else - although I must admit Java evolved very much in the past few years. I love to code and build new applications from the scratch, optimizing it through day and night till I am satisfied with it's performance. So follow my articles, share your thoughts and experience with me and have a good time browsing this blog!

article list

• Get rid off phpmail()!

  Monday, August 31st, 2009

  Dear sysadmins and developers,
  phpmail() IS OUT! Get rid off it. Now!
  One of the most common sources of spam are “hacked” webservers and poorly or even non-secured forms. By using phpmail the webserver must be allowed to send mails without checks for a valid sender. This results – mostly on a shared web host – in [...]

• coffeecoders gone twitter

  Monday, August 31st, 2009

  Hey there,
  although we don’t like to blindly follow trends we decided to open up a twitter-account.
  You can follow us here. You can expect to be informed when a new blog post is published and we will tweet links and interessting stuff which would be too small for a whole article.
  We hope you like our new [...]

• trac: upgrading trac with easy_install fails with “unexpected HTML page found”

  Saturday, August 22nd, 2009

  When installing or upgrading trac on a Debian-like linux machine you might want to use the easy approach of the python setuptools. Trac can be installed or upgraded by using:
  easy_install http://svn.edgewall.org/repos/trac/branches/0.11-stable
  Since the release of Subversion 1.5 the version of easy_install included in the Debian repository ran into a compatibility issue.

• Mouse-less Eclipse

  Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

  In his blog Andy Maleh posted a number of brilliant keyboard-shortcuts to ease the use of eclipse and greatly improve your programming experience.
  I just love it. Thank you so much!
  Link: Andy Maleh – Code Painter: Mouse-less Eclipse

• Website Optimization Best Practices

  Monday, June 1st, 2009

  Many new projects grow from a small base to a full blown app in time. Besides the pride of the accomplishments the developer now has to care about behind-the-scenes-stuff like page load, caching and effective webdesign to keep or improve the current speed when using the project.
  Speed – or to be more precise the lack [...]