It has been over a month since the last post and I have a bad conscience for not posting any news on the blog. Plenty of things have changed for me in the last months.
I quit my job at Hewlett-Packard in Germany and will leave the company end of June. Besides still being at HP in the daytime, I am working in a small but awesome team on a mobile-focused startup in my spare time. This is why there have been no frequent updates to the blog. After leaving HP I will fully concentrate on this new challenge. Be prepared for the upcoming launch of our startup this summer! Until then the amount of posts on the blog will probably stay low.
While creating our startup we encounter a lot of useful information on mobile that’s worth to check out. We will post reports, infos and general shorter thoughts in our new Public Skype Chat. Everybody is invited to join the discussion around mobility!
A new version of WordPress is frequently released to plug holes and to fix bugs. Due to security considerations most web applications cannot update themselves as easily as desktop applications can. I was afraid this means I have to go download each new version and move all custom files such as themes, plugins and configuration options.
Fortunately there is an easier solution! If you are having command line access to your web server and a
Subversion client installed you can just checkout the latest version of WordPress from the Automattic repository in seconds. Subversion knowledge helps but is not necessarily required. Detailed instructions can be found in the
WordPress Documentation.
The leap to a new updated WordPress is shorter now and I don’t mind if new versions are released weekly!
Compared to most I am starting to blog a little late – in particular because I have already been online and interested in the Internet for such a long time. To quickly catch up with all old-established bloggers here is a super trendy “Top Ten Reasons Why I Am Blogging” list:
10. Since being a Mac user I somehow have so much more free time.
9. To practice my English and writing skills.
8. Ohh and to help me to stay longer on the Mac and shorter on the Wii.
7. To have a technology playground and platform for my projects.
6. Because I can practice marketing by evangelizing funkfeuer.net.
5. As a long-term blog reader I now want to engage myself and give back to you and the community!
4. Focus on a specific area. I know quite a good deal about many many things in the IT and computer world but now truly want to become an expert in one of the areas I enjoy most. This blog will keep me focused.
3. Build knowledge for me and others. Writing about or teaching things makes me think much more actively about them than just skipping over it.
2. Because learning by conversations with others is more effective and interesting than learning alone.
1. Get to know interesting people and get interesting people to know me.
Three, Two, One… funkfeuer.net is on air! Welcome to my new blog.
I will write about mobility trends and development techniques for the (mobile) Web. As I am living in Germany there will be a focus on mobility and especially mobile web trends in Germany and on how Germany is evolving compared to other countries. This blog will be about mobile services and applications and only giving attention to the latest greatest gadgets if they are enabling those services. Many other excellent blogs like Gizmondo or Engadget are writing about devices – none I found so far is covering the Mobile Web in Germany.
I am excited to get this rolling! Please come back in the future or subscribe to this blog via RSS so that I can keep you up to date on the latest mobile happenings in Germany. Posts can be expected on a weekly basis.
OpenID Commenting Now Enabled
To get OpenID authentication running I just had to download and activate a WordPress plugin. There have been some hiccups but after disabling the Live Commenting feature of the K2 theme everything is working now. Thanks WordPress!