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When creating presentations the Presentation Zen way, you end up using lots and lots of pictures. If you use pictures that are published under a Creative Commons license you may need to mention the names of the original authors/photographers. I do so by showing a slide show with all pictures…
Mein Arbeitgeber bietet im kommenden Jahr 2011 wieder einen Ausbildungsplatz für eine/n duale/n Studenten/in (ok, ich spare mir die Geschlechterunterscheidung jetzt einfach mal) im Bereich Wirtschaftsinformatik an. Wer Lust hat, bei mir als Ausbilder 3 Jahre in einem erst vor wenigen Wochen eingeweihten Neubau in Vechta in die Lehre zu…
Sometimes you need to logon to a remote PC via RDP but the PC is not configured to allow remote connections. Instead of walking over to the machine and setting the needed configuration manually, you could enable RDP connections on the remote PC using regedit as follows: start regedit and…
Just a little snippet to resize and rotate all images in a Word 2010 document. I needed it to create a table with multiple images per row/column from some dragged and dropped images. Option Explicit Sub ResizeAndRotateAllImages() Const ROTATION = 90 Const HEIGHT = 7 Dim n As Integer For…
Mein Abschluss ist zwar schon etwas her, aber am 22.07. fand die offizielle Abschlussveranstaltung der Fakultät efi (Elektro-, Feinwerk- und Informationstechnik) der Georg-Simon-Ohm-Hochschule Nürnberg statt. Dort wurde ich als bester Absolvent meines Jahrgangs geehrt (und zufällig bin ich sogar in der Fotogalerie der Ohm-Hochschule zu sehen). Zwei kleine Artikel zu…
For managing my literature sources for reference lists I use Zotero and I really like it. It is a plugin for Firefox and supports synchronizing the database and the attachments to an online server. The only thing that was missing was a way to cite my sources from inside my…
Today I needed to link to a local file on a network share from a page in TYPO3. This link did not start with the usual http:// but instead with file:///. The problem was, that the rich text editor (RTE) in the backend of TYPO3 always prepends “invalid” links with…
Today I tried to query Zotero’s REST API with PHP to retrieve a list of my bibliography items for further processing. The basics are pretty easy setup using phpZotero and following this guide: Mashup Guide :: Zotero REST API: early developments. However, I ran into some problems as the user…
Our WSUS server provided my computer with Microsoft Windows Update KB968930 (Windows Management Framework and PowerShell 2.0) but it could not be installed (without giving any helpful error message). After searching the web for quite some time, I found this solution to be working in my case: Deinstall PowerShell 1.0:…
Today I was asked a question regarding PHP’s foreach statement: If the array through wich a script iterates is generated by a function, how often is this function called? In this example, will getArray() be called only once or three times? $c = 0; function getArray() { global $c; echo…