On March 1 I went to the Stereophonics concert at the cosy Kulturfabrik. Even though I don’t know many of their songs, I really had a good time. My favourite moment was near the end of the concert when Kelly Jones, the lead singer of the band, performed “Maybe Tomorrow” solo. For a few seconds the entire crowd went silent and then rushed back into rapturous applause… fabulous!
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Nodeems ech leschte Mëttwoch a mengem Kommentar “Souvill zur Informatiounspolitk zu Lëtzebuerg” kritiséiert hat wéi lächerlech ondétailéiert de Communiqué war deen de CASES-Service vum Wirtschaftsministère erausginn hat, ass elo och eng Reaktioun op politeschem Plang ze spieren:
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After csv.lu went online (see this post), I was asked if I wanted to do the new website for the LCGB, one of the two largest confederations of labour unions in Luxembourg. The job consisted of a complete rewrite of the code and a restructuration of all the information. After several weeks of work, the new website of the LCGB is, as of today, finally online.
I did the project management as well as all the coding for the project. The design was done by 4com. The Symfony framework was used as a basis for a custom content management system (screenshot) that has some interesting features, like for example change detection (screenshot).
Most importantly, the new site is much richer in terms of content than the previous site. On top of this, user friendliness has been increased. The most important pieces of information are now always reachable from the left column, so users literally have them at their fingertips, whereas the navigation menu on top consists more of an archive.
I am interested in any feedback, particularly concerning the structure of the site.
An enger Pressematdeelung huet de Websécherheets-Service vum Wirtschaftsministère (och bekannt ënner Kéis CASES oder kuerz “Cyberworld Awareness Security Enhancement Structure”) haut matgedeelt, dass ee “renomméierte lëtzebuergeschen Internet-Site” mat engem Trojaner infizéiert war. Esouwäit näischt spektakuläres, esou eppes kënnt alt emol vir. Mee: Continue reading ‘Souvill zur Informatiounspolitk zu Lëtzebuerg… [2. Update]‘
A common problem of multithreaded applications or separate applications accessing shared memory is concurrency control. Current applications usually use locking to access shared memory, but this has several well-known disadvantages like bad scalability or bad maintainability. As many developers will have experienced, it is an extremely tedious task to choose the right locking granularity (not too many, not too few) and to apply and release them in the right order to avoid deadlocks.
I wrote a small application that converts UML models in the XMI format to configuration files for applications based on the symfony framework. It is licensed under the LGPL v2.
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… which is why I finally decided to update and replenish it, so go check it out. If you think any significant information is missing, let me know. The portfolio currently only includes only web sites and web based software. Details about other projects like spellchecker.lu are not in there yet.
The CSV, Luxembourg’s largest political party, has a new website. I have been working on that project at a software development company called Eleven for roughly two months now.
After having created the previous website of the CSV a few years ago I was asked if I wanted to help out during my summer holidays. As the project involved Web 2.0ish stuff such as user generated content, blogs and videos (and most importantly image reflections 
) I decided to take the job. Now that the site is online I really have to say that I am quite happy with the result.
I will spend my remaining few days at work writing the documentation and applying the final touches before resuming my computer science studies in Kaiserslautern.
Today I have finally received my Bachelor diploma. (Yeah!)
Just wanted to let you know.
CASES-Communiqué: Äntwert vum Minister Jeannot Krecké
Virun e puer Wochen hat ech iwwert e Communiqué vum CASES-Service an iwwert d’Reaktioun an der Chamber geschriwwen. Virun enger knapper Woch ass elo eng Äntwert vum zoustännege Minister Jeannot Krecké komm. Wéi ugekënnegt dofir hei e puer Auszich aus sénger Äntwert (ouni Commentaire, meng Meenung hunn ech schon an deenen zwee aneren posts ausgedréckt):
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