Gerd’s Blog

I was using blogger since 2 months now and i have to admit that it is far no that usable as i thought. Today i decided to move my blog including the content to an other tool. I think i will shift to WordPress but i have not made the final decision. The domain http://blog.gerd-saurer.com and the RSS Fees for the Blog and the Comments will stay as they are.
I apologies for the troubles this will cause you. Until now i really was very satisfied with the Google Products but Bloggers is far not that i expected.

If you are interested what was the crucial factor for my decision:
A few hours ago i posted my Post Titled “Google Reader Feeds” which was original an older draft version about a month old. As i posted it i did not recognize that the publish date was set to the original date the draft was created. This is not what i expected because it was published today and not about a month ago. I tried to change the date but the only thing i go was an error that i should publish something at the bloggers google group. I searched there and found several entries already more than a year old - no comment when it will be solved.

On one of my last post i was writing about Meta RSS Feeds and that it would be nice if Google Reader would support a possibility to get feeds for special tags. I just step over a post by Niall Kennedy (already posted in December 2005) that describes how you can use the API of Google Reader and subscribe to special tags. Be aware that not all stuff posted there is still working. The API is similar to gdata.

After a short look into my Reader settings i found that you can share special tags also within the readers settings.

I must admit that i have not seen the settings as i was writing my last post.

I have posted that the company i am working for is searching for developers a few weeks ago. As mentioned we tried to use http://jobs.joelonsoftware.com/ to find engineers that are searching for challenges as Christopher mentioned in his post. After the posting is not available any more i want to share our results with you.
We got 5 Replies - 3 of them where from Indian Consulting companies and just 2 where from interested candidates. I did not expect there would be much replies special if you take a closer look at postings form Europe (at the moment 14) but two is fare too few.

As several of you have already mentioned Skype is not working correct at the moment. I was not able to log into the service. A short look at the Heartbeat website of Skype shows the following screen.
So how can any of the above services work without the login / registration service which is broken?