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This website has changed a lot. Today I want to show you which techniques and programs I used to create it. I also want to introduce you to some people, who really inspired me very much during creation.

I tried to use a link as submit button, to ensure that the user have JavaScript activated. But onsubmit wasn't executed when clicking the link. First I thought that this misbehaviour was caused by the behaviours.js library. But it didn't take long to see that this awesome lib didn't have anything to do with the problem.

I had a lot of trouble installing Ubuntu (additionally) on my new HP Compaq 6715b- Notebook. I got a lot of help by a friend. He solved that the main problem is the wide-screen of this laptop. Wide-screens aren't supported by the default graphic driver versa. So here is a little How To, to solve this and other problems, like getting Wireless LAN running.

In Django you are able to write websites in a minimum of time with a great result. Some developers, nevertheless, don't care about structuring their source as good as Django does. This will cost time and nerves. This entry is meant to show how especially freelancers can save time by thinking before programming, what is a good overall rule. ;)

I work with the Django development version on my (linux) server. But I work with a Windows Operation System, which is very dump when it comes to SVN Checkouts. There are some solutions for the command line. Hey, honestly the windows command line is annoying, isn't it?

I always loved being able to link back a certain chapter of a webpage. Sometimes it is great to just link to the source code of a weblog entry or any other part of it. To enable the visitors of my weblog to do that I wanted to set up some kind of Table of Contents.

I wanted it to be flexible, so that I can adjust whether the table of contents is shown or not. This makes sense, because some articles have just two headlines and a table of contents with two points looks pathetic. So the users would ...

The more I read about Django signals (didn't set up one yet), the more I wonder where the difference between a post_save or pre_save signal and the redefinition of the save-method is.

It is quite typical for Wordpress-blogs to have all archives in the sidebar. For example "August 2005, September 2005", all linked back to the archives pages. Django, sadly, doesn't have something by default to generate these archive links dynamically.

There is another reason, why people, should want this ability, even though they don't want these links in their sidebar: the <link rel="archives" />-tags. In case you're not interested in this HTML-tag, just ignore the following paragraphs and skip directly to the source code.

These days I wrote my first Django project (you are currently browsing it). Of course I wanted to post entries into this blog with code snippets. To make the reading experiance better for my readers I decided to use a syntax highlighter. You find thousands of them around the WWW.

One great feature of a well-structured website is the navigation bar or location bar, better known as breadcrumbs. It always tells the user, where exactly s/he is currently on the website. (On the website you are currently browsing it is located above the footer, called 'Your way'.)

As a matter of fact, this bar never was easy to create. But when you use Django you don't need one single line of code to achieve your own breadcrumb navigation bar.

One very basic Python library is PIL (Python Imaging Library). It is used for image manipulation.

To install packages, I usually use easy_install, but installing PIL using this tool, I got an error:

:~#easy_install PILSearching for PILReading http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/PIL/Reading http://www.pythonware.com/products/pilReading http://effbot.org/downloads/#ImagingReading http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/PIL/1.1.6No local packages or download links found for PILerror: Could not find suitable distribution for Requirement.parse('PIL')

Fortunately, I found someone, who shared my problem, so this is the way ...

ABITUR! This is the German word for diploma. After 13 years of school we finally graduated. Of course we had a big celebration called Abiturball. And yes I just uploaded a lot of pictures of that event. During the Abiturball I held a small speech about the passed 13 years and about our future. I just want to upload this speech here, so everybody can read it:

13 Jahre ist es jetzt her: Die Lese-Fibel, das Schönschreiben, Poesiealben und viiiel Freizeit.

Vor 7 Jahren trafen wir uns dann als Fremde auf dem Immanuel-Kant-Gymnasium. Wir waren auf unsere Klassen gespannt -- wussten ...

When I released Emma Watson Empire in February 2002 I had no idea which size it once will have. But due to it's present size I know Emma very good, at least I think so. I kind of watched her growing to the present state. But what is this present state?

I don't know whether you saw Emma lately on TV or on EWE. She really looks grown up. But what I was surprised most of was that she actually is grown up, as she proves in some interviews. She isn't the little eleven year young One ...

This poem was written by me for my English class... But I think you'llenjoy it as well.

My English teacher asked us to write a speech, which we would hold on our Graduation... Of course I loved this idea, and made many people think about the passed years... As it was written as a speech I marked some stressing's, I used while speaking.

Graduates, at first I want to ask you something: How do you feel? I mean, we've been together for seven years -- about half of our life's so far. We went through happy times and through not that happy times. How do you feel?

We met as strangers and leave as friends ...