Create a multi-page PDF from images!

Sometimes I need to convert a series of images (like pictures of single pages of a document) into a multi-page PDF file. Thanks to ImageMagick® it is a matter of a single command on the shell. As you can see in the screenshot above, once you have ImageMagick installed on your computer, you will be […]

Hands-free device for Home Office

After a long research I have found the perfect hands-free device to use while driving. And I use them since many months, now. The Plantronics Voyager 5200 UC is a great hands-free device with a very good noise cancellation, long lasting battery life and many useful features! And it has proven to be essential for […]

FOSDEM 2019 – Free Open Source Developers European Meeting

It has become a tradition for software developers to meet up at FOSDEM in Brussels in the beginning of the year. This year we met on 2 & 3 February. We started in the Alps escaping from a snowfall to reach Brussels, where snow was falling as well. The conference is a huge gathering of […]

Open Data Hub is part of the UNESCO Software Heritage

Humans are digitizing more and more aspects of society. Software is becoming the infrastructure of our society. Even rules get encoded as software, think about smart contracts as an example. The UNESCO wants to preserve software and its evolution through the Software Heritage project by Roberto Di Cosmo and Stefano Zacchiroli. The project description states: […]

At the end… there can be only one… mobility provider!

Ford and Volkswagen announced an alliance to cut costs but also to fight back against Google & Co. Autonomous Vehicles, Mobility Services, e-Cars, … all topics which are disrupting the automotive industry. Will there still be car brands in the future, or just autonomous vehicles provided by a global service company (maybe Google)? Will humans […]

Book: Kanban in Action

In the book “Kanban in Action” the authors Marcus Hammarberg and Joakim Stunden describe the Kanban tool for project management in software development teams.

Resizing and cropping a lot of images

After a successful South Tyrol Free Software Conference I wanted to upload some images on the conference website. Shouldn’t be difficult. The website has a special field to add images of the conference. But! It only accepts images in the exact size of 900 x 684 px and all my images have a size of […]