Thomas Koch - Comments

Sollich,Peter: Wohngemeinschaft in Konstanz / Kreuzlingen am Bodensee

nospam@example.com (Sollich,Peter) — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 19:22:44 +0200

Gute Sache, ich wäre vielleicht dabei, auch mit meinen Ideen und Tatkraft,Single,58J.Ich will von Hannover entweder nach Berlin oder an den Bodensee.Gruß Peter

mk: Free Software in companies

nospam@example.com (mk) — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:45:02 +0200

Also take a look at http://www.fsfe.org/documents/whyfs.en.html

Martin Fjordvald: Free Software in companies

nospam@example.com (Martin Fjordvald) — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 16:19:39 +0200

Reddit is completely open source and they just surpassed Digg in traffic. It's certainly not impossible to have free software and then be big.

Frank: Free Software in companies

nospam@example.com (Frank) — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 15:31:37 +0200

Youŕe certainly missing Oracle asone of the largest software makers with OpenOffice, MySQL, BerkelyDB, OpenSolaris, Netbeans, VirtualBox ... as own OpenSource and investments in Apache, Linux Kernel, Gnome, xen, ...

With IBM you're missing at least the involvement with the Linux kernel, same with Google.

You are also missing Microsoft who are doing different OpenSource things.

So in short: Everybody is doing OpenSource.

mina86: Free Software in companies

nospam@example.com (mina86) — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:57:06 +0200

Don't forget that Apple has their share of free software as well. Things like CUPS or Darwin.

Matthias: Free Software in companies

nospam@example.com (Matthias) — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 23:05:28 +0200

Small company (BerLinux Solutions GmbH), but providing an Open Source Framework named disko (http://www.diskohq.com).

I really do think, going open source is the trend for the future. Maybe it is some kind of keeping a good reputation for some companies, but who cares, as long as some good software will be opened this way.

jimcooncat: Free Software in companies

nospam@example.com (jimcooncat) — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 19:17:30 +0200

If the software directly enables your customer to produce their product or service (say, CAD software in a design house), then its understandable that they may not want to share it with their competitors.

If the software is indirectly related to their business (say accounting software in a design house) then sell them that by sharing the software and getting feedback, over time you can make it much more robust and feature-full.

Sven: Free Software in companies

nospam@example.com (Sven) — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 14:34:31 +0200

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Dmitrijs Ledkovs: Free Software in companies

nospam@example.com (Dmitrijs Ledkovs) — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 13:36:04 +0200

Oracle Sun, Wordpress.

Albert: Free Software in companies

nospam@example.com (Albert) — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 13:15:26 +0200

Don't forget about Best Practical, makers of Request Tracker, as well as Six Apart, makers of Movable Type - now open source.

someone: Free Software in companies

nospam@example.com (someone) — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 12:58:20 +0200

If you really like the idea of developing the component as free software, then give it for free to your customers as well and I guess they'll stop going nuts.

hedrok: VIM an a PHP IDE

nospam@example.com (hedrok) — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 09:38:45 +0200

I had to work a little to make phpcs work with vim. It seems that output format of phpcs changed (source column was added)
Also my installation had no YMC coding standard, so i set it to Pear.

This works for me:

function! RunPhpcs()
let l:filename=@%
let l:phpcs_output=system('phpcs --report=csv --standard=Pear '.l:filename)
cexpr l:phpcs_output
cwindow
endfunction

set errorformat=
%E\"%f\"\\,%l\\,%c\\,error\\,\"%m\"\\,%*[a-zA-Z.],
%W\"%f\"\\,%l\\,%c\\,warning\\,\"%m\"\\,%*[a-zA-Z.],
%-GFile\\,Line\\,Column\\,Severity\\,Message\\,Source
"set errorformat+=\"%f\"\\,%l\\,%c\\,%t%*[a-zA-Z]\\,\"%m\"
command! Phpcs execute RunPhpcs()

Thank you for good post!

coiby: VIM an a PHP IDE

nospam@example.com (coiby) — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 11:06:21 +0200

Thanks. But for the part of Codesniffer integration, it does not work. "let l:filename=@%" does not get the name of the current file.

Thomas Koch: backup of mysql databases with rsnapshot

nospam@example.com (Thomas Koch) — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 08:30:02 +0200

That's a very legitimate and interesting question...
As far as I remember, I copied the questioned line from the original script from friederschueler.de. I believe the colon is there to assure a return value of 0 (True) for the whole line.
Compare the return values of
false && skip=1 with false && skip=1 || :

The colon is a substitute for constant true.

By the way, I notice that I put bash in the first line. Today this should be sh to be independent of a specific shell implementation.

Patrick: backup of mysql databases with rsnapshot

nospam@example.com (Patrick) — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 23:21:21 +0200

Could you tell me what the "|| :" in the line "[ "$db" == "$i" ] && skip=1 || :" is doing?

For the problem with the data-inconsistency: isn't it possible to lock the table before doing the backup?