You want to break into Wall Street or Investment Banking in general? Then you better get a great network and solid communication skills. But you also need to be quite well read in order to leave behind other aspiring bankers. Which books do you have to read?

In retrospective, the IEO giant McDonald's (NYSE:MCD) has managed to consecutively increase its dividend payments throughout the last 29 years. As of today, it appears more likely than not, that the company will even further increase its dividend payments in September.

After some fine years with WordPress I decided to move to something more lightweight. My hosting contract would end in a few days so I spent some time and migrated from WordPress to Jekyll. Here is how I did it.

GPG-Tools was working crazy hard over the last couple of months and finally delivered their GPGMail2 plug-in for the mail app. If you don't want the hassle of a non working encryption when you update to OSX Mavericks, you should go for the terminal version.

Textile is a great markup language and it is fun to use in combination with the Marked app. Setting textile as you default markup language in Marked is straight forward if you don't fear terminal usage. This quick note will show you how.

Just recently I had to make up my mind about how to collaborate on simple memo files which would be synchronized using Dropbox across heterogeneous systems. Proprietary file formats would of course drop out. Besides, no one wanted to install an additional program. Pandoc came in just handy.

Blosxom is a simple content management system written in Perl by Rael Dornfest. If you are new to this system, you might experience the same problem I had with the layout. This quick note should not be a how-to but rather a hint to setting up the blosxom.config correctly.

While developing web apps I use MAMP to run a server locally on my iMac. Usually I test my websites only locally and use Safari and Chrome, but this time I was curious if the infamous Internet Explorer would survive accessing my website and how well other devices like iPad and iPhone would handle it.

TikZ lets you create really great diagrams for your scientific papers. The main difference compared to carelessly embedding images in your paper is that you will be creating vector images with TiKz, which are lossless scaleable, what means they won’t blur and you won’t see pixels when you scale them up.

A quick note on filling the usual blank space in LaTeX tables with dots to create a vintage look.