Category Archives: Open Source

[email protected] – add API proxy

Create a file like “proxy.json” in your [email protected] projects’ root. { “/api”: “http://localhost:1337” } start your development server with: šŸ°Ā  $ ng serve –proxy-config proxy.json All request to http://localhost:4200/api/v1/endpoint will now be proxied to http://localhost:1337/api/v1/endpoint   Pro Tip: add “start”: “ng serve –proxy-config proxy.json”, to the scripts section inside of your package.json and use the […]

Setting up AFP on Ubuntu

I’m using VirtualMachines for many development tasks, as I don’t want to mess my host system. To Access the files on my machines I’m using AFP which is pretty easy to use. This setup is based upon the work of The missing readmeĀ So this post is basically just a short reminder and howot for myself […]

5 ways to misunderstand Free and Open Source Software. | GHABUNTU

This is 0ne of the best blog posts about OS in a while … 5 ways to misunderstand Free and Open Source Software. 1. The software industry can’t keep going if programmers don’t get paid. 2. Innovation is killed in free software. 3. Software Should Just Work (who cares about source code?) 4. Free software […]

Open Source Business Desktop – Gnome or KDE

Matt Hartley posted an nice article about Linux Desktops in Businesses.Ā http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/entdev/article.php/3717261It really is an interesting read. GNOME, both on the user and development side of things, believes in the integrity of GPL-based code and ease of use. Applications developed in this realm tend to be rather vanilla in appearance, yet will work as advertised. Ā  […]

Kubuntu … makes your life easy

On the weekend, I installed the latest Kubuntu release onto my desktop PC. I must say the distribution is getting better with every release. The first thing I noticed, finally Kubutu got a “Blueish” KDE 3.5.8 theme, which makes the desktop really beautiful (I didn’t like the old themes very much). The setup went on […]

Nothing Special

My last entry here was about three weeks ago. The reason, why I did not write anything, is, that there was nothing to blog about. No special News, Funny Clips…. The only interesting thing is, that I started my last half year at the HdM in Stuttgart. I will write my thesis at the IBM […]