Gerd's Blog

Archive for July, 2007

OpenId

I was playing around with OpenID for some time now and until now I am very satisfied with it. For this reason i also activated it on my blog as authentication mechanism but more on this later. First of all for all of you who don’t know OpenId – what does it mean? OpenId is [...]

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Meta RSS Feeds – Sharing

As already mentioned a few posts before i’m using Google Reader as my primary tool for reading news on the web. Fore some times now, i also use the sharing functionality to publish my Link blog on the web for friends, colleagues and every one who is interested in. Hopefully your are and will subscribe [...]

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Hiring Software Developers

At the moment the company i am working for (located in Vienna) is searching for new developers. It is not that easy to find qualified developers that fit in our team these days. As mentioned in the last post we are using Scrum as development process and our primary programming language is C#. So if [...]

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Making JIRA a little more agile

We are using JIRA in our company as bug tracking tool and Confluence as our enterprise wiki. The tools are very useful and i like them but they need to be ‘pimped’ with some plugins and extensions. Concrete i am thinking about two extensions which i would like to see in the near future. Maybe [...]

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Google Search Results

Lately i noticed some changes in the search results of google. More and more rss news feeds are returned as top results as you can see in the screenshot below. This is really a big problem becaus if you click on it immediately your configured RSS reader opens (in my case this is the Google [...]

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