Haukes Blog

Heute ist mir wieder einmal bewusst geworden, wie schwer es ist, seinem Gegenüber richtig zuzuhören. Es erfordert sehr viel Disziplin. Ja, ich meine wirklich Disziplin. Bisher habe ich gedacht, dass Konzentration vollkommen ausreichend ist, aber - zumindest für mich selbst - lag ich da wohl falsch.

Warum also muss man sich disziplinieren, um wirklich zuhören zu können? Für meine Person ist die Antwort leicht. Die folgenden Punkte sind daher für mich selbst, aber sicher nicht allgemein gültig.

Nach einigen Projekten als Mitglied in einem Scrum-Team und nun beinahe einem Jahr als ScrumMaster in einem Software-Team habe ich es nun auch geschafft, das Agile Manifest zu unterzeichnen.

Tatsächlich hat bisher keine der zahlreichen Ansätze zum “Management” von Projekten so gute und verläßliche Ergebnisse gebracht. Man ist geneigt zu glauben, dass Agilität wirklich funktioniert…

Tomorrow I will get a new car. Not for the fun of it - since being father to four kids, we need a car that is able of moving all six of us. this shiny new car has an USB port which enables me to put in an USB memory stick and play the music placed on it as if it were an audio cd. This sounds great, doesn’t it? No more joggling with joggling with CDs, no more problems with cleaning and carrying discs around and moving the right tunes from one car to the other.

Yesterday, my Jolla returned from a short stint with Jolla care. I unmounted my Palm Pre2 (which I used for the time my Jolla was not available) and began to set up my phone again - apps, Android support, accounts.

One of the apps I needed regurlarly, although I would prefer using something different for messaging, was Whatsapp. My friends are sending me pictures and do some chatting, my basketball team is organizing itself usinga Whatsapp group. I am using Mitakuulu - and indie Whatsapp client available for SailfishOS. There is no official client, of course -same on webOS and FirefoxOS - so my devices of choice are depending on third-party developers to do some magic. Mitakuulu is very well integrated with SailfishOS, so I never opted in using the Android client.

I am using Linux as a desktop system for quite some time now. Starting with a distribution of SuSE dual-booting on my Windows 95 gaming machine some years past, it eventually became my main system, although I also had short stints with Windows 2000, Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 (which I think is a really good operating system).

Evolution

I prefer Evolution as client for my mails, addressbooks and calendars; although I tried other clients - claws, Thunderbird, geary, mutt - I always move back to Evolution. Switching was a matter of functionality most of the times. The look and feel of Evolution was always great for my personal taste, but when I changed from local calendars and addressbooks to online services or from POP3 to IMAP, evolution fell short of other clients. Everything was implemented rather fast, but sometimes, things just did not work properly. Calendars would not sync, buttons in Evolution just did nothing or at least not what they said.