Veit Sanner's Blog

With my commitment to revive this blog with new content I have also switched to a new authoring and publishing process. Previously I wrote all my blog posts directly in Blogger’s HTMl editor . At the beginning of my blog it was the most sensible thing for me to do. Blogger provided me with an interface to directly write my articles into the publishing engine. And it was a good choice. But over time I began to regularly fiddle with the HTML which was generated while typing into Blogger’s editor . And I did not focus on the area which is most important: content . Besides my blog I have been looking for an editor solution which provides me a simple and universal user experience from my Windows laptop which I have for work and on my private iMac . Early on I found Markdown a very interesting solution. You are basically typing plain text into an editor with formatting commands. And the available commands are quite comprehensive for a blog post. This is then rendered into formatted o

Device with a Twist At my company’s new year kick-off everyone got a present which at first sight does not have much in common with our daily work: Creating rich intranets based on SharePoint. It might be even seen as a pure geek gadget : a DIN A4 sized solar panel and a rechargeable battery. The solar panel is used to charge the battery. And the battery then can be used to charge for example your mobile phone. But now comes the twist. Changers , the company behind it, has created an online community which allows you to upload your CO 2 savings by charging your devices with solar energy. And this community provides multiple incentives to regularly use your device. You can Track how much CO 2 you have saved by charging your mobile devices with solar energy. Track how many watt-hours of energy you have created. Earn badges by achieving certain energy saving levels Start a green energy competition with your peers, e.g. colleagues or friends. Earn credits and redeem those at