A nice open source project from the industry. The new plant of a medium-sized company needed to be equipped with video surveillance and recording. Usually engineers use ready-to-use CCTV systems bought in DIY stores, consisting of a network-attached storage and a streaming server. Nowadays, not that cheap Chinese blackboxes, usually tied together with Apps, Cloud and Online functionality without any chance of customization. Read more

Today, shortly before weekend, I felt that pain again when seeing a PowerShell script. Somebody has literally raped the System.IO.DirectoryInfo across several pages and eternalised himself beyond anything related to aesthetics, technology or rationality. The aim of the script was to zip all the subdirectories of given folder one by one and push them to another drive with an ISO -compliant timestamp prefix. Read more

In a developer forum today I came across a Netcraft statistic that shows how meaningless Mirosoft has become with its IIS server, .aspx and .NET webservices. The largest loss in sites for a major vendor this month comes from Microsoft, which is down ,, sites (-. Read more

This week, I found these treasures from the digital prehistoric times in a customer’s basement: The Nixdorf Quattro/ with its real-time operating system and the “Workplace ” as a terminal. Devices from Nixdorf were once in every bank and behind every ATM. Unfortunately, the fate of the company was sealed with the early death of the company founder Heinz Nixdorf. Read more