in the need of a running platform? infrastructure issues with your home-brew servers? connectivity problems with the internet service provider? programming tasks or integration solutions for any type of application? or only advice how to handle your own little notebook-beast at home? all showcases in this area present running solutions implemented and supported in the area of IT-service provisioning, from an initial sketch of the idea to an productive environment.
how to present yourself on the WWW? not in the mood for constant interaction and update to make you rank high in search engines like google, yahoo, etc.? well, an integrated online “business card” that integrates with available social media sites such as facebook, twitter, xing etc. will provide as much attention as possible with as little effort as needed. for http://www.martinarnold-sax.com an integrated video/youtube based online portfolio has been established that directly feeds into twitter as well as facebook to increase the attention of search engines. the main focus as mentioned earlier is to reduce the involvement of the author to a minimum and provide the least information necessary to get an impression of the work performed and get in touch.
As future developments the idea to integrate a teaching as well as a composing channel on the site has been discussed.
Installation and Integration:
the installation is based on a wordpress theme similar as the one used for mymess.org enhanced by the thickbox development for display of smooth zooms and viewability. through the possibilities of the youtube api on the one side as well as the configuration possibilities a completely integrated system was established, that allows martin to upload the videos of his daily shows on servus.tv to youtube, automatically integrating those videos on his portfolio page as well as feeding into twitter. have a look – nice music, great atmosphere!
Resources:
http://www.martinarnold-sax.com
contact me@mymess.org for more information.

the exchange of large files and resources over the internet poses complications for non-technical experts. as a basic requirements the exchange needs to be possible form different platforms (windows, mac, linux based systems) without the need of additional installation steps of clients etc.
additionally a private environment has to be established, sharing over systems such as the Microsoft Live SkyDrive or DropBox are regarded as too public and open and can not be used out-of-the box- a private file server infrastructure is established using the FTP protocol for communication and a browser-based client for interaction.
Installation and Integration:

installation on a mac-based system for goalgetter studios for sharing resources of any kind with clients and friends. the installation uses a mac-os tiger based system at the backend and standard ftp server configuration. on the frontend a open and free web-based system has been used (ourwebftp from http://www.ourwebftp.com/).
Resources:
http://www.ourwebftp.com/
contact me@mymess.org for more information.