Create a multi-page PDF from images!

Sometimes I need to convert a series of images (like pictures of single pages of a document) into a multi-page PDF file. Thanks to ImageMagick® it is a matter of a single command on the shell. As you can see in the screenshot above, once you have ImageMagick installed on your computer, you will be […]

Hands-free device for Home Office

After a long research I have found the perfect hands-free device to use while driving. And I use them since many months, now. The Plantronics Voyager 5200 UC is a great hands-free device with a very good noise cancellation, long lasting battery life and many useful features! And it has proven to be essential for […]

Restaurant MIIL in Tscherms

The restaurant MIIL in Tscherms is a location to enjoy a nice dinner with friends. The Miil is located in the Kränzelhof Estate, which comprises seven gardens, a residence including a historical wine cellar, a winery and the Miil restaurant. MIIL . DES OTHMAR RAICHGAMPENSTRASSE 1 . I-39010 TSCHERMS . MWST. NR. . 02628110211HTTPS://WWW.MIIL.IT INFO@MIIL.IT […]

VillaVerde a coffeehouse

I had the pleasure to spend a day at VillaVerde. A coffehouse in Lagundo near Merano. A wonderful location in which you can find the perfect combination of tradition and modern. A villa with a wonderful reading area been transformed into a coffeehouse and extended by a modern construction providing accommodations, SPA and meeting facilities.

Book: The Innovator’s Dilemma

In the book The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Management of Innovation and Change) the authors Clayton M. Christensen, Kurt Matzler and Stephan Friedrich von den Eichen analyse the cause for failure to cope with disruptive innovation, where they are excellent to cope with incremental innovation instead. The book has […]

FOSDEM 2019 – Free Open Source Developers European Meeting

It has become a tradition for software developers to meet up at FOSDEM in Brussels in the beginning of the year. This year we met on 2 & 3 February. We started in the Alps escaping from a snowfall to reach Brussels, where snow was falling as well. The conference is a huge gathering of […]

Forst Lagrein Bier, is it a beer or wine?

One of the most impressive discoveries I made during winter 2018/2019 was a beer produced by the brewery Forst in South Tyrol. Forst decided to combine the taste of the indigenous Lagrein wine with their Forst Felsenkeller Bier. The result is called Forst Lagrein Bier and for the moment, you can only get it when […]

Open Data Hub is part of the UNESCO Software Heritage

Humans are digitizing more and more aspects of society. Software is becoming the infrastructure of our society. Even rules get encoded as software, think about smart contracts as an example. The UNESCO wants to preserve software and its evolution through the Software Heritage project by Roberto Di Cosmo and Stefano Zacchiroli. The project description states: […]

At the end… there can be only one… mobility provider!

Ford and Volkswagen announced an alliance to cut costs but also to fight back against Google & Co. Autonomous Vehicles, Mobility Services, e-Cars, … all topics which are disrupting the automotive industry. Will there still be car brands in the future, or just autonomous vehicles provided by a global service company (maybe Google)? Will humans […]