Category: General

  • Open Education Day 2017: Open Source Solutions for Schools

    Open Education Day 2017: Open Source Solutions for Schools

    /ch/open invites to the Open Education Day: Saturday, 29 April 2017 in Windisch. We present JSXC, an easy way to extend any web application into a communications hub, e.g. for learning applications.

  • Federated XMPP chat (and more) with Movim: A success story

    Federated XMPP chat (and more) with Movim: A success story

    There are many reasons to be unhappy with current social media sites and chat applications. For a long time, there was no viable alternative, especially not, if you wanted usability and integration. Now there is hope, with Movim.

  • One Page CV Template

    One Page CV Template

    One-Page CVs are a common way of getting attention. Services like enhanCV.com allow you to create them online, even autofilling some information from your social network presences, if you want to. Using those online services is not always the best choice, as you might

  • DNSSEC for .ch domains

    DNSSEC for .ch domains

    This year, all owners of .ch domains need to switch from the DNS registry SWITCH to a new registrar. Getting an overview over these registrars is hard. Thankfully, Marc Wäckerlin has started the road to transparency with a price comparison of Swiss .ch domain registrars. Here, I extend his results with a survey of DNSSEC…

  • School vacation calendar for Stein am Rhein

    The two schools in Stein am Rhein, primary school Schanz and secondary school Hopfengarten, both publish their vacation calendars online. However, these calendars are written as formatted text and published as PDF. This post describes how you can import their calendars into your electronic calendar, such as Outlook or iCal. [This article is also available…