I’ve stumbled upon an interesting interview by Ben Kepes, he talked to Lindsay Finch, Senior Global Privacy Counsel for Salesforce and Box.net co-founder and CEO Aaron Levie. While reading the article, I was surprised to find a transparency report by Google, which contains details about Government Requests for content removal /user data. According to this report, [...]
Feb 222012
Max Schrems, an Austrian law student who has filed dozens of complaints about Facebook became the opportunity to sit down with Facebook’s European director of policy Richard Allen and another unidentified Facebook executive to discuss his concerns, especially about the “right to access”, which is a fundamental aspect of the European data protection law. This law entitles [...]
Feb 162012
Today, Marc Benioff announced on Twitter that Salesforce Labs has released a free, open-source but unofficial and yet unsupported Salesforce app for the iPad. It has been localized in 7 languages and allows to create, edit, clone & delete standard and custom records, all kind of tabs are supported & it can be used with any [...]
I did it! Yesterday I’ve passed the Salesforce Certified Administrator exam (Winter’12 edition), now I’m looking forward to become a certified Developer / advanced Developer ASAP!
A few weeks ago I’ve had trouble with my HP Elitebook 8540p (Windows 7 64bit) – it instantly powered off without warnings. After restarting the laptop, I did a quick Memory test (I got 8GB), without result. Next, I’ve monitored the behaviour of my laptop for a week and noticed the following: the fan started to [...]
Sweet, today I realized that I can add any movie based on Microsoft’s *.wmv format to iTunes, and it get’s converted automatically when I synch my iPhone 4! I’m using iOS 4.3.5 – maybe that’s the reason why this works. I’m going to test other video formats as well, just to see what else I [...]
In the coming weeks I will update my blog with some insights about my newest project: a lightweight indexing & search solution for everyones Desktop, using Apache Tika & Lucene – just expect more to come!
Yesterday I decided to use a custom formatter for my logfiles. Why? Because I thought it would be nice to have a nicely formatted piece of logfile rather than the old-school, black & white log files we all know: But wait – there is more than just look & feel, writing your own formatter lets [...]
This is an outstanding visualization of an interesting topic: motivation. Watch the video, it explains some concepts you might be interested in.
