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 […]

Book: The Innovator’s Dilemma

In the book The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Management of Innovation and Change) the authors Clayton M. Christensen, Kurt Matzler and Stephan Friedrich von den Eichen analyse the cause for failure to cope with disruptive innovation, where they are excellent to cope with incremental innovation instead. The book has […]

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 […]

Forst Lagrein Bier, is it a beer or wine?

One of the most impressive discoveries I made during winter 2018/2019 was a beer produced by the brewery Forst in South Tyrol. Forst decided to combine the taste of the indigenous Lagrein wine with their Forst Felsenkeller Bier. The result is called Forst Lagrein Bier and for the moment, you can only get it when […]

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: […]

Book: The Lean Startup

In the book “The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses” Eric Ries describes his proposed lean startup strategy.

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.

The Journey Begins

After a long time of sharing pictures and thoughts on other social media channels, it is some years I am thinking about creating a BLOG as main channel to share these impressions of my journey with friends. Let’s try it!