Rehabilitating jQuery UI with Words and Sass What do you think about jQuery-UI? I have personally always been a pretty big fan, but I have also kept on hearing people talk badly about it. Two of the main points of criticism I was hearing have been the 1) lack of (visible) progress in the project over the years and 2) jQuery UI's suboptimal design ... read more »

Even if the trademark "hackathon" is in progress of deletion (search for "++++ Update (07.05.2013):") I'll take the chance here to explain my position. You can follow the discussions about trademarking the word hackathon here, read more »

One of our latest project was the registration app for the Eurovision Song Contest 2013. Together with grandcentrix we've built an iOS and read more »

Shortly: a few days ago, someone spotted that the word "Hackathon" is registered as a trademark in germany. We decided to try to remove this registration as a trademark. Why? Because I'm a hacker. Because as I said a few days ago: I've organize... read more »

On March 1st and 2nd the first Rails Girls Rheinland Workshop took place in Monheim - organized by Tatjana, me and some awesome guys and girls from innoQ - the company that kindly offered to host the event. (Here's what it's all about: read more »

There has been an annoying CSS limit slumbering in IE for many years that is now increasingly encountered by more and more web developers. The issue is, that previous IE versions (below version 10) have a limit on the number of parseable selectors within one single stylesheet. Especially in the Rails world this number has considerably increased latel... read more »

Nach dem erfolgreichen Open Data Day in Köln folgt ein zweites, kleines, aber sehr sehr feines Event: die Minikonferenz. Es ist eine 3 Stündige Konferenz für Hacker, Painter, Storyteller oder für alle die schönes tun, außergewöhnliche Wege zum Ziel gehen, zur Gesellschaft beitragen, auch mal etwas verschenken, Idee... read more »

Last saturday and sunday we celebrated the International Open Data Day in Cologne. Thanks to Marian and all the other organisators we had the chance to work for 48 hours on our projects. One of the best things was, that we had the chance to introduce our projects to the representatives of our city and they actively ... read more »