Limesurvey is probably the most advanced open source survey software at the moment. I have used it for a short survey projekt already and I was impressed.

The successor of PHPsurveyor is based on PHP and MySQL, which gives the possiblity to install it on many shared hosting services. The current stable version is Limesurvey 1.71 and they are currently working on Version 1.8.

At the same time the team around the project leader Carsten Schmitz work on a total reworked version Limesurvey 2.0, which looks very promising. » Read the rest of the entry..

I like Wordpress. It is free, simple and has loads of usefull plugins and nice themes.

What was always quite annoying was the upgrade process. An annoying upgrade process leads to the problem that one might not immediately upgrade to a new version, which can make the installations insecure.

Then Wordpress added a feature to easily upgrade plug-ins, which was an important step ahead. But upgrading the blogging software itself was still annoying. » Read the rest of the entry..

Backing up your files is important. It can save you from a lot of headaches. I know what I am talking about. A few weeks ago (when installing Ubuntu 8.04) I forgot to save my “home” folder!!!!

Stupid, I know, but it happend. So what now? I usually save all important files on an other partition of my hard disc, so no mayor problem. But wait - what about the emails? Exactly, they are stored in a folder called “.thunderbird” within my “home” folder. » Read the rest of the entry..