Rene Schmidt Freelancer

02-26!

Browser detection on the verge of IE6’s death

Categories: Misc, Web Development

Internet Explorer 6 is on the verge of death. Google will phase out support of this old fellow very soon. FINALLY I might add. While they will invite IE6 users to install Chrome, Firefox or some other modern browser,… Read on ››

02-10!

Can I block someone from viewing my publicly available content?

Categories: Misc, Web Development

Someone recently asked me if he could block someone from viewing his publicly available web content. The inconvenient truth: No you can not. Unless you restrict your web content to a certain user group via authentication… Read on ››

02-041

Deutschland und Amazon AWS (aktualisiert)

Categories: Misc, Work

Wer sich dafür interessiert, Amazon Web Services (AWS) zu nutzen, beispielsweise Elastic Computing (EC2), Cloudfront oder S3, sollte eines wissen: Es gibt keine vorsteuerabzugsfähigen Rechnungen von “Amazon… Read on ››

01-21!

Thunderbird 3.0.1 and Lightning… they did it again

Categories: Misc

Trouble using the latest Thunderbird 3.0.1 with Lightning? Fear not, use a nightly build. Read on ››

01-20!

“Why is my browser so slow?”

Categories: Software, Work

Every now and then people complain about their web browser being slow. The conversation usually goes like this: Me: Ok which browser are you using and which version? Customer: Firefox 3.5 Me: Ok which plugins did you… Read on ››

12-31!