The new year begins with the release of the website of Deborah Hödtke, church musician at the cathedral and catholic Diocese of Eichstätt in Bavaria. Being an organist, the website is mainly meant to provide an overview of upcoming and past concerts alongside biographical information. Therefore, I have chosen a layout with a prominent but not disturbing background image which still allows for a good perception of the menu and content. Read more

As Advent begins, people start asking others for their wishes regarding Christmas presents. It’s a similar story when it comes to birthdays. To get around these questions, I started an online wish list a few years ago that is accessible by everyone. Updating this initial version of the list required modifying and manually uploading files. Therefore, I recently expanded the wish list into a web application with a simple interface. Users can easily add and delete entries to their wish list, organized into different categories. Read more

Running multiple servers and (web-)services, sometimes makes it hard to keep track of possible problems and errors. I had the same problem, when I came up with the idea of a centralized online-logfile. Searching the internet revealed tons of logfile applications, also for centralized logfile collection and evaluation. The problem with most of those applications is that they are either not open-source, too advanced and therefore complicated or require an own server instance. Read more

The Herzogliches Georgianum is a theological seminary in Munich. Founded in 1494, it is nowadays the second oldest Catholic seminary in the world. During the last months, I had the pleasure to renew the website of this historical institution. Together with the direct feedback of some residents of the Georgianum, I came up with a website that represents the institution in an appropriate way but does not require too much effort to be kept up-to-date. Read more