Inspiration break at ADC Summit 2010 and a sneak peek of things to come
From time to time, it's good to raise your head over the rim of your cubicle and take a look around. In a daring attempt to fulfill my desire for an overdue escape from day-to-day work, I ventured to Frankfurt and this year's ADC Summit Expo with projekt-pr's Rüdiger Hahn and Anke Schöneweiß, a freelance graphic designer. 11.000 square metres worth of design samples were waiting for us on this sunny Saturday. read more
CVS2Mercurial — Or how to escape from servitude
For a long time now, we have been suffering from the limitations and errors of CVS. For almost as long we have been dreaming of a fast, stable and simple version control system (VCS) to replace it. read more
Templating with PHPTAL: Don't make your designer think (about the wrong things)
In former times, when some of us started to generate dynamic websites using PHP, we tended to generate XHTML output for, let's say, a blog post like this: read more
8 Golden Rules for Apprentices
Last week, we finally found a second apprentice and completed our team lineup for 2010. Simon Mönch will be joining us from May 1st to learn the craft of software development and Jessica Lazarus starts her apprenticeship for digital media design on August 1st. read more
Bafana, Bafana!
So I was the webfactory's intern "march 2010". Since I'm planning to study Communication Design this fall, I don't only need application-folders filled with endless sketches and samples, but also internships to show my further interest in the field and gain first experiences. read more
Fixing Fluid for Basecamp, Campfire and other 37signals products
Ever since 37signals introduced the launchpad and unified account management for all of their products, I couldn't login to Basecamp or Campfire with Fluid. I didn't have much success finding help via Google, but I finally stumbled upon Steve Sanderson's fix today: simply add *launchpad.37signals.com* including the asterisks to your whitelist of URLs in Fluid (it's in Preferences > Advanced), restart Fluid and you're up and running. read more
Yes, we geek or A Tale of Mincemeat and Zucchini
Yesterday we (dr, hs and sb) were working late, and around 10:00pm lunch seemed very long ago indeed. A quick survey of the kitchen confirmed that we had enough leftover ingredients for spaghetti bolognese with onions, tomatoes and zucchini. What we didn't have was mincemeat and somebody willing to leave his desk long enough to cook. read more
About the TCP MSS and wrong checksums
During the last days, I had to refresh my knowledge about the gory details of the TCP protocol. By far I'm not versed enough to get into something like this or that, but at least my current problem was solved. read more
wfDevCamp 2008: Work Away From Work
Sometimes, special tasks require unusual measures. It was obvious that we needed to move the development of wfDynamic, webfactory’s content management framework, a big step forward. So in December 2008 the webfactory team headed to an apartment in the Austrian mountains for a week of focused, uninterrupted work. read more
Preach What You Practice
webfactory has always been about creating highly usable and accessible websites, keeping a close watch on web standards and the POSH paradigm. This September we finally decided it was time to start preaching what we practice. read more
