Es gibt ein Projekt, in dem ich involviert bin, das wir gerade auf der Zahnräder Konferenz vorgestellt haben: die Islamische Online-Akademie. 😀
Update: Die Kooperation mit Deaf-Islam ist auch schon beschlossene Sache. 🙂
Tag: Web
The Definition of Cloud
cloud, n.
mythical place where all the unloved data is brought
Update:
The Oxford English Dictionary has already been notified about this omission. 😉
JetPack vs. Antispam Bee
Seems like Jetpack discussions and Antispam Bee don’t go well together: upon submitting a comment you get a “Invalid security token” error. Well … bye, bye Jetpack discussions.
Secrets of Search
Douglas Merrill from Google talks about what it takes to build a search engine for the web.
Besides that what strikes me as interesting is their choice of languages “focusing” (he didn’t exactly say that, but it’s what you understand, when he says they won a prize for it) their efforts in machine translation on: Arabic and Chinese … o.O
Discussions for GitLab landed
My patch for revamping the comments and adding proper discussion threads has been accepted and will be in GitLab 4.1 (due next week). 😀
Designing For The Empty States
Craig Dennis has an interesting blog post why and how you should design empty states in your apps.
“You’re not anonymous. I know your name, email, and company.”
The analogy at the end is the point:
A real-world analogue would be this scenario: You drive to Home Depot and walk in. Closed-circuit cameras match your face against a database of every shopper that has used a credit card at Walmart or Target and identifies you by name, address, and phone. If you happen to walk out the front door without buying anything your phone buzzes with a text message from Home Depot offering you a 10% discount good for the next hour.
*shudder*