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Last modified: July 22nd 2001
about:credits
This page and the statements here are quite different from what I've put on such
pages way back in the early nineties. I used to try and always use the latest nifty
technologies and expected people to get themselves a decent browser.
Well, perhaps partly due to the way in which the role that little company from
Redmond plays on the Internet has changed since then, I've learned that technology
is there to serve a purpose, that you have to watch which purpose that is, that
compatibility is valuable, and freedom of choice needs to be defended every day.
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All the graphics on this site were created with the Gnu Image Manipulation Tool better
known as the Gimp. I'm not a professional graphics designer but I do work with features
such as layers, transparencies, channels, etc., and from my experience of both the Gimp
and the versions of Adobe Photoshop I've seen there's no need for me to not use the
free, open source Gimp.
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You might count me among those people who want to always keep control with some degree of
justification! I don't like WYSIWYG-tools that don't do what I want and then make me waste
a lot of time trying to debug the code they generated only to have them break the mended
code again whenever I need to modify things.
I know that NetObjects Fusion does produce some decent results, then there are some tools
that cost a lot of money or some or some that require special extensions on the server I
don't even want to think about. In the end I always end up editing HTML code manually and
NEdit is a good tool for doing that job with code high-lighting,
finding brackets and all the stuff you expect from a graphical text-editor.
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Before going live, every page on this site is tested against three major browsers: Netscape
Navigator 4.76, Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5, and Mozilla 0.92+,
the latter being the browser I use most.
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Tux gets his place on this page because this site is developped and tested on Linux. Linux
is neither the first UNIX I've ever used (that was AIX) nor the dialect I use most
(that being Solaris), but it happens to be the best choice for running on my laptop computer.
Consequently this site gets tested on a SuSE 7.1 distribution
with kernel 2.4.2.
I'm not going to enter the discussion which UNIX is best. I hope there's room for more than
one implementation in this world. But I do think that it is absolutely and utterly important
that such a such a thing as Linux is happening, that there remains
some degree of independance of freedom of customer choice. Thus I'm also a member of the
Darmstadt Linux User Group.
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Gotta have a local web-server for local testing!
I use the Apache 1.3.14 installation that comes with SuSE 7.1. The
content gets synched to the remote web-server via sitecopy.
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OK, most of the work gets done in NEdit, but for quick edits I use VI
... not emacs ;)
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