In this blog entry I give an experience report on building a budget hackintosh (my first hackintosh-build ever) and on how it went – including necessary troubleshooting (really not that big a deal). Recently, I read a report on Heise.de about building a hackintosh. I was curious about it and tried it for myself. Since … Read more →

Our research paper titled “Categories of Enterprise Architecting Issues – An Empirical Investigation based on Expert Interviews” was published in the conference proceedings of the Multikonferenz Wirtschaftsinformatik 2012 (MKWI ’12), taking place from 29.2.-2.3.2012 in Braunschweig, Germany.

My research paper titled “Towards an Approach for Stakeholder-Oriented Elicitation and Identification of Concerns in EA” was published in the conference proceedings of the PoEM 2011 – The 4th IFIP WG8.1 Working Conference on the Practice of Enterprise Modelling. The conference took place in Oslo, Norway from November 2-3, 2011. Here is the abstract: The … Read more →

From February 16 to 18, 2011 the 10th International Conference on Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI 2011) took place in Zurich, Switzerland. I presented a paper titled “Goal-oriented requirements modeling as a means to address stakeholder-related issues in EA” (see here or here). Read more →

From August 12 to 15, 2010 the 16th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) took place in Lima, Peru. I presented a paper titled “Critical Issues in Enterprise Architecting – A Literature Review” written by Sascha Krell, Ulrike Lechner and me. Read more →

The German PHP 5 cookbook in a new and completely revised 3rd edition with information on the new PHP 5.3. Collected knowledge of American and German PHP experts. It contains hundreds of well-approved “recipes” including explanations of the new PHP features. Read more →

Todays company performance depends on powerful business software. But what part has business software in a company’s success and how can this success be identified and safeguarded? This book describes the solutions of 14 companies, using the proven eXperience method. Read more →

Last week I attended the EMISA 2009 where I presented a research paper we wrote at the chair for information systems of the Federal Armed Forces University, Munich, Germany.The title of the paper is “How do system and enterprise architectures influence knowledge management in software projects? – An exploratory study of six software projects.”. This … Read more →

I used my vacation to update the looks of this website. Blog and site are now driven by the same software. Before I was using the Zend Framework for the website and WordPress for the blog. Site updates weren’t complicated before but now I can make changes even faster and do not have to bother … Read more →

Book published by the VDM Verlag – Written by Carsten Lucke When developing applications, about 50% of the total development costs are spent for the graphical user interface (GUI). For “GUI-heavy” applications this percentage is even higher. Working without a proper plan and a well structured software architecture is dangerous and can lead to immense … Read more →

Published in PHP Magazin 6.08 by Carsten Lucke The adoption of caching techniques allows to increase an applications performance significantly. Especially complex and time consuming operations can benefit from using a cache.

From 4th – 6th July the Bavarian championships in rescue swimming of the DLRG took place in Neumarkt, Germany. My team and I won in the open age-group (male) and are now qualified for the German championships in October which will take place in Paderborn, Germany.

Published in PHP Magazin 5.08 by Carsten Lucke Programming desktop applications in PHP? Yes, that’s possible. Usually the PHP-GTK extension to accomplish this task. GTK is available for a lot of operating systems and thus quite portable. However, GTK applications often have a different look that distinguishes them from native applications. For Mac OS X … Read more →