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  • Usage of GhostDoc in Large Corporations

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    A message to all developers in large corporations out there: If you try/have to approve the usage of GhostDoc because of company policy, you may get the response that legal problems prohibit the usage as no agreement could be reached with the author (i.e. me). To avoid the impression that I'm trying to rip off your company in any way, I'd like to explain this:

    If a company approaches me asking whether the usage of GhostDoc is allowed for commercial purposes, I point them to the license which clearly states that this is the case. If company policy still requires an explicit statement regarding commercial use, I don't have any problem with that, either.

    But: I will not sign any multi-page legalese for a piece of software that I didn't actively offer, let alone try to sell to a company in the first place. If my freeware license is not compatible with company policy, then that's unfortunate, but it's nothing I will do anything about - sorry.

  • Vortrag "GUI-Design für Nicht-Designer" in Koblenz

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    Am Mittwoch, 28. Mai 2008 bin ich bei der .NET Developer Group Koblenz zu Gast, wo ich ab 19:00 einen Vortrag mit dem Titel "GUI-Design für Nicht-Designer" halten werde.

    Der Vortrag richtet sich u.a. an jene Entwickler, die von sich behaupten überhaupt keine Ahnung von GUI-Design zu haben. Die werden durch den Vortrag natürlich nicht automatisch zu perfekten GUI-Gestaltern, aber wenn man ein paar Grundregeln kennt, ist es gar nicht so schwer, zu einer durchaus brauchbaren grafischen Oberfläche zu gelangen.

    In den Beispielen zeige ich GUIs mit Windows Forms, insgesamt geht es aber relativ wenig um konkrete Technologien, sondern eher darum zu lernen, Anwendungen aus der Sicht der Benutzer zu betrachten. Dabei kläre ich u.a. was zugekniffene Augen und Fluchtreflexe mit Usability zu tun haben.

  • Blog Posts are now tagged by Language

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    As the number of my blog posts in German language has increased in recent time, I have decided to tag all posts with either "English" or "Deutsch", depending on the language.

    My blogging language for technical posts will remain English, I just want to give those living outside Germany a chance to avoid my announcements of events, availability of slides, etc.