• How to make efficient status meetings

    Do you know these horrible status meetings? Every week, every two weeks or – when it is critical – 2x a week? Especially with multiple members? And you never know whether it’s important to go there or not? But you need to go there because there might be a relevant information? The myth: “If there’s…

  • Do not make rules that you cannot control or enforce

    Many of the COVID measures would certainly not have been necessary if “we all” had behaved reasonably. One could discuss the term “reasonable” right away. But “reasonable” unfortunately depends on personal goals. If the personal goals diverge, the opinion about “reasonable behavior” diverges as well. And suddenly “we all” do not have a common sense…

  • The real challenge of HomeOffice for companies

    Companies and executives thought COVID-19 and 100% HomeOffice would be a real challenge. Now, companies have learnt that the business can go on. Employees have learnt that HomeOffice can work. Now there the second challenge has to be solved!

  • Don’t just ask for Feedback and Improvements

    “Every employee should feel encouraged to give feedback and contribute ideas for improvement!” Who hasn’t heard this before? My opinion: “Forget it!”. Unless you want NOTHING to change. but IF you want some improvement, you can do it with two simple additional steps ..

  • How To Quickly delete large folders in Windows

    Deleting folders with a huge amount of files in Windows can be done lighting fast with the command line.

  • How to fix: Samsung Soundbar does not connect to SmartTV

    Once in a (seldom) while a Samsung Smart TV and a Samsung Soundbar (HW-[something]) won’t reconnect to each other any more and it seems like there is no way to connect them again …

  • Google Maps SDK does not show map in Release Build (works in Emulator)

    I’ve been waisting some hours by hunting a stupid “bug”: I am using Android Studio and was following the “Maps SDK for Android > Getting Started” guide. Of course I also ran into the issue of a wrong API key. But this was all solved by Googling and StackOverflow. The map still showed up in…

  • How to make space/storage efficient backups of Raspberry Pi SD-cards

    RaspberryPi mini computers are great for all kinds of home automation, media centers, home servers. Yet it should be known that the draw back for permanent operation can be the SD-card. Especially when applications on the RasperrbyPi cause excessive read/writes or if it is used outsides where temperatures can reach the SD-Card operating limits, IO…

  • How to install TvHeadend on a Raspberry Pi

    Tvheadend is a TV streaming server and recorder for Linux. It also offers a great possibility to combine a SAT-recorder with KODI mediacenter on a Raspberry Pi (I would recommend a raspberry Pi 3 due to RAM requirements). Installing Tvheadend by compiling from source was not so easy, so it is definately easier to install…

  • Let’s Encrypt with Tomcat 7

    Using HTTPS on Tomcat with a let’s encrypt certificate is quite easy – as soon as you know how to do it (as usual). acme.sh provides a quite convenient way of getting and renewing certificates. This is extremely important as the certificates have a lifetime of just 60 days. So get and “install” acme.sh first!…