Manuel Klimek

A month ago I bought a TREKSTOR NDAS device. This devices promises on it's package to be linux compatible. So after I unpacked the hardware and everything was running in Windows I tried to install it in linux. Unfortunately the stock feisty debian package I found didn't work with my WLAN configuration.
Now after I reinstalled [...]

My Vista Home Premium finally arrived. Since I have a Ati 9250 at work, which is a smartly rebranded DirectX 8 card, I was craving for the full "vista experience". After doing some backup I installed Vista on my laptop and spent some time setting up the basic programs I need. Since installing colinux is [...]

In case you didn't notice: I've been away from my keyboard for two weeks. My wife and me had a beautiful vacation in Jamaica where I learned that reading and writing English doesn't help a lot to understand people actually talking. Ya Man!

Today was a beautiful sunny day. The warm sunbeams on my skin told a story of the oncoming spring. And while my body started up it's Vitamin B3 production line, I remembered a conversation I had yesterday with Bernhard, a rocket engineer, that evolved around two statements:
"With hardware, theoretically anything is possible." - This statement [...]

Morbus Maximus Hypercodus, also known as BPCD (Best Possible Coder Disease) is an uncommon illness these days. It mostly affects integral parts of the brain and while some people believe it to be a genetic dysfunction, others claim that BPCD has purely psychological causes. People who suffer from BPCD are usually not aware of it [...]

Today somebody posted a very interesting comment on my recent article about my experience with XP. He (or she) linked to an article called Extreme Deprogramming. The comment's author said it was "The most insightful take on XP", in his opinion. Well, the article is very entertaining indeed, so first of all I recommend that [...]

The first time I heard about ruby was at University about eight years ago when most of ruby's documentation was Japanese. Back than it was hard to find a good introduction to ruby and since I favor curly bracket languages for aesthetic reasons I decided to stick with perl.
Last week I gave ruby a new [...]

The first time I heard of Extreme Programming was during my University days. We didn't really learn anything more sophisticated than the Waterfall model, so I was totally unprepared. Since I had no practical experience in programming teams with more than two persons, I didn't understand the problems of the Waterfall model or even of [...]

I just read Paul's article about processes. And while I begin to realize that I'm already meta-blogging I totally agree with Paul that processes are nothing else than yet another tool.
So let's talk about tools. Imagine little Bob the builder. Bob wants to build a nice doghouse for his beloved puppy Rocky. Bob realizes that [...]

Mayhap the sea shines a dazzling blue the day you drown. Your arms get weaker with every struggling move, splashing salty spume into your burned face while the sun mercilessly grins down at your pathetic attempts to get a grip on the ever changing faces of the fluid. Fate played a little prank today, [...]