DomiWitt@blogger.com

Amazon.de: Wishlist

2005-01-29T10:19:00.000+01:00

Since people have been asking since my birthday is coming up in a month or so, here is my wishlist at amazon.de.

Linkin Park

2005-01-26T19:35:00.000+01:00

I gotta say that in spite of people might be saying that new metal is mainstream, Linkin Park simply provides us with the best stuff in new metal around. Maybe I sound mainstream now but I dig the new double feature with Jay-Z.

New years eve

2005-01-04T14:44:00.000+01:00

These are some pictures of that new years eve party we had. Everybody brought some food'n'drinks and "the guys" still thought they needed some pizza. Monstrous things if you ask me.

Besides that we played Tabu, table soccer and other shiz. 'round midnight when in Germany everybody starts up some fireworks we tried out giving develish lighting to a sewer lid (sadly no photographs were taken of this, because it looked really cool watching rockets going off in it.

Under review

2004-12-30T11:38:00.000+01:00

I have entered this site into some forums and boards now, so that people start to criticise my site. In case you are one of those people, feel free to leave a comment here as well (even if it's just a reference to your board entry). This way I hope to remember more properly what I still need to do.

Currently I have review entries in the following boards:

This site is done... at least the contents exist

2004-12-28T09:57:00.000+01:00

Hi all,

finally this site is completed. I have provided content for all the existing sections. This includes media such as the drawings and mp3 streaming via JavaScript and Macromedia Flash. Hope you like all of this! Even if not, don't hesitate to comment the contents of this site and the blogs contained. Hope you find some of the stuff on this page either useful and/or entertaining.

Dominik

Macromedia Breeze

2004-12-20T07:40:00.000+01:00

So I am a huge fan of Macromedia in general. But I particularly like Macromedia Breeze. For about a year now I am fascinated about the various infotainment breeze presentations that are spread around Macromedia.com for almost all subject. I think it's a real benefit to enable you visitors to view presentations and have a truely multimedia experience instead of just having them read text.

Now I have requested a trial account for Macromedia Breeze and I must say that I a quite impressed. It's not that you could not accomplish all of you web conferencing using MS NetMeeting but Breeze comes along so much more integrated into the web. Stop worrying about ports, bandwidth and platform. Breeze is launchable through any browser that has a flash-player 4 or higher installed. Integration into the Microsoft Office Suite is also a snap using the power-point plugin to instantly publish Powerpoint Slides (including audio) to your Breeze server. Also with Outlook integration you can directly scedule meetings in your calendar. An additional feature I like very much is the recording of meeting (either particially or completely) to enable people who could not participate in a meeting access at their convenience.

Breeze is probably best suited for small to medium size teams. But altough I doubt that it's currently effective for broader audience interaction (broadcasting works great as shown multiply on Macromedia.com), I would not know a better tool for realtime collaboration.

First day of my vacation

2004-12-13T11:55:00.000+01:00

Ok, this is the first day of my vacation and I am already pissed. I am up since 6 am this morning and had the phone on my ear ever since.

Seems natural that the mother calls on the first day of my vacation, it's even nice that my girl is calling me from work to see what I am doing. But then I got 2 calls from work... wait here is the 3rd one.

Then I got a call from some call-center in Tokyo. WTF!!! I don't exactely know what they were even try to sell me. Their English was just so bad. And where the hell did they get my German phone number from. Very strange and probably very illegal...

Söhne Mannheims

2004-11-27T09:39:00.000+01:00

Usually I don't like German music too much. Especially German folk music (Schlager) gives me the creeps. But there are some exceptions to this general rule. One of them is the new album Zion by Söhne Mannheims (sons of mannem ;-). For all true fans of those guys please forgive me for not having done my homework on them. They pretty much live up as they have Xavier Naidoo amongst them, who is a true star on the sky of German music business.

The music they do is always a little orchestral, which I always like. But it's not only the music but also the lyrics. Always applying much needed social critisism, the lyrics ofter surrounded by christian or biblical themes. Still they manage to go to the top of the charts.

What it comes down to is sophisticated lyrics paired with some really impressive style. Currently this is probably the best, Germany has to offer musicwise as they understand to rock hearts and soul and also having a meaningful message.

So the blogs are setup now

2004-11-21T19:41:00.000+01:00

So, my blogs are set up now. Got three of them now ;-) Also got good names for them, which makes me pretty happy since naming is usually the things that I am worst at. I will try to finish the rest of the page in the next few weeks and get it online.

I had a view versions of my personal home page up to now, but I like the current one the best... or at least the pretty picture of it in my mind. Well I hope you'll like it, too. At least to some point... ;-).

But as long as this issue is still pending feel free to hit me with comments!

Welcome to my personal blog

2004-11-21T16:15:00.000+01:00

Hey all,

welcome to my blog. This is my first entry, so I probably should state what this blog will be used for in the future.

There is one blog, which will feature my thoughts and ideas about enterprise progamming, design patterns and stuff like that, that I base on my personal experience with web applications, enterprise applications, middleware and other daemons that I had to battle in PHP, J2EE and SAP environments.

Another blog will feature stuff that I found on the web. Probably most of it will be about web design and such, as this is sort of my favorite hobby.

And finally this blog I will use to leave my personal note and footprint on the web.