Helge Morgenstern

Helge Morgenstern is a northern German webdeveloper and drupal expert with interests in modern web technologies and (inter)cultural topics. He's a student of Computer Science in Economics and a graduate of English Culture and Business Studies. Helge likes digital photography and guitar music. Recently he works at the Software Systems Engineering group at the University of Hildesheim, teaching first grade students object oriented programming in Java.  » learn more about Helge

State of Drupal Dashboards

Some days ago I hole a presentation at the Drupal User Group in Hannover about the current state of dashboards in Drupal. I'm currently starting to work on my bachelor thesis and dashboards for information integration in a corporation context will be part of it. 

You can find my presentation slides attached to this blog post or on slideshare.

Buzz: Google is getting social

Google Buzz LogoToday Google announced its newest product: Google Buzz. It's a social networking feature directly integrated into Google Mail and lets you post status updates, images and videos - simply all social content you'd probably like to share with others.

Project: One Book a Month (1BaM)

I recently decided to start a personal project for 2010: buying one book every month this year. I simply like books not only because I'm an avid and tremendously fast reader of novels. It simply feels cozy to actually own them and have a nice bookshelf in your room. Also, my family has a long tradition in selling books and owns a small bookstore in Bremervörde which I really like.

Open-Source Etherpad on MacOSX

EtherPad LogoAbout: EtherPad is a very famous web-based texteditor that lets users collaborate on text documents in realtime. While writing or editing texts inside an EtherPad other users can join and you'll see their change just in the moment they type. Just try it out yourself at http://etherpad.com/helges-pad-example. 

Webmontag Hannover

Gestern war ich das erste mal beim Webmontag in Hannover. Ich hatte schon so eine Vorahnung, dass man bei so einer Veranstaltung auch einiges an Selbstdarstellung erleben würde. Einige Referenten und Teilnehmer haben diese Vorahnung leider auch bestätigt.