I’ve tried out some of eCommerce shops, but I forgot about them when i discovered a new kind on the block - Magento. Why Magento eCommerce looks promising First of all it seems to be done very professionally, starting from solid architecture but also UI aspects ending with a rich features set. Yes, in my opinion, that describes the most advantages of that shop shortly. Because in comparison to other shop systems it offers very much functionality and flexibility out of the box, combined with a good-looking default template....

It is nearly impossible to compare the advantages and disadvantages of online shop systems because they are complex systems with a variety of functions, that build for different needs. I’m talking about such a system for small and micro-businesses, where processes can be built around the functionality of such systems to some degree. So this post can be only my personal impression of a system that I compared so far....

Everybody knows the drawbacks of Java Applets. Long loading times, browser freezing, and stability problems. That fact does not make java applet popular1. Most of those problems lie in the quality of the java browser plug-in itself, which was not really good and was not improved over a longer time. Sun has ground up rewritten the browser java Plug-in. Following was done in this rebuild. Improved scripting support (So javascript integration is better) Improved reliability Supports more powerful applets (applets can ask for more memory) Better windows vista support (signed applets) Enterprise features (run one applet in a particular JRE version) The last point sounds very interesting to me....

Today i notice five new comments on my blog that passed spam-filter and waited for approving. They all seemed to be OK. Example is: Yes we all know about that, but you published this on 2005, now it became very famous, moreover it very difficult to handle , all keys are very different so new people couldn’t work properly, its takes too much of time to take download, xp speed is better than vista in pc but in mac vista is best it works nice and speed too, every operation will done easily....

Don’t believe that? Than listen to the story… Occupational i deal with people who works with already aged version WSAD IDE (Rational Application Developer for Web Sphere). I think they use version 5 which is based on eclipse platform in version 2.0 or 2.1 where code folding was not supported. Code folding feature of eclipse based IDE allows you to clap currently not interesting code fragments like methods, constructors or import statements just in place in your current editor window....

In the genesis of Database Systems age, as triggers were proposed1, the goal of such DB mechanisms, was relatively clear. Triggers appeared for assuring and extending the control of integrity property in Database Systems: … Database Trigger is predefined database procedure, conditionally or unconditionally succeeding or preceding other database operations automatically…[IBM Research Report, RJ1820, 1976] The question That is actually what technically DB Triggers are still today. However having procedures (aka triggers) on the database level makes them available for anyone....

Maybe you notice the downtime of this site last days. Unfortunately it was hacked by someone for unknown purpose. The attacker used some exploit in Wordpress or some plug in or maybe the problem in k2 wordpress theme. Some malfunction of these open source components was used out, so that attacker have added lines like echo passthru($_GET[1]); to some of php files. That gives them access to shell of my user account on this server....

Yesterday W3C has published document named HTML5 differences from HTML4. Interesting here is that the standard provides two syntax variants HTML5 and XHTML5: HTML5 - is compatible with HTML4 and XHTML1 documents published on the web, but is not compatible with the more esoteric SGML features of HTML4. Documents using this syntax need to be served with the text/html MIME type. HTML5 also defines detailed parsing rules (including “error handling”) for this syntax which is largely compatible with popular implementations....

Now i’ve changed my homepage ultimately! From now on, my main content is blog content and all other things will be arranged around it. I’ve made some permanent redirection (301) rewriting rules so Google crawlers and browsers should not have problems to deal with changes. But i’m not sure about your feed readers. In any case every content from old path http://alexander.holbreich.org/blog/ was moved and redirected to http://alexander.holbreich.org/ including rss feeds....

I have to share it: I’m very happy about release of my Master Thesis written work. ;) During writing on his topic i have learned much about Business Processes, Workflow Systems and a lot about transactions, sagas, Scopes of Control and so on. Maybe i should unveil something about it in future topics. But today it’s only about getting some of my life back after in this hard work for me!...