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It took a loooooog time. But I'm finally bringing my little blog back to life. As a first step I've finally found the time to upgrade to the last version of Confluence, and moved the virtual server away from my old employeer. (Thanks for the hosting local.ch, btw!)

While Confluence is not the perfect solution for a personal blog, it's still my favorite choice since I'm also working a lot with it on my job. The RSS Feeds are a bit of a mess, since they also show up diffs of the changes. Hey, it's a Wiki after all, but I'm working on a solution for this. Stay tuned.

The 10 Users for $10 Starter Licenses that Atlassian is offering are a great value. You should consider them if you want to start your own wiki or blog. I'm pondering a private Jira instance for my shopping lists and other mundane task. Hey, how about investing another 10 bucks for Greenhopper? Agile Lifestyle with Greenhopper? Two week sprints and all that? Pig or Chicken? Okay, that would be a *bit* over engineered

Getting the visual voicemail to work can be tricky. It usually means you have to call your provider, in my case Swisscom, and ask them to convert your combox to a Visual Voicemail combox.

Once this hurle is taken, and you can access your VoiceMail, you still need to setup your iPhone to actually forward call to the voicemail. Again tricky. There is afaik no graphical user interface to this. You have to use the GSM codes.

Here is the cheat-sheet from Swisscom:

Didn't get that? Let me run you through an example:

1. Click on "Phone" on your iPhone
2. Click "Keypad"
3. Enter the following number **61*+4186xxxxxxxxxx# (replace xxxxxxxxxx with your mobile phone number. e.g. 0791234567
4. Click on "Call"
5. You will get a large status message back, telling you what services (voice, data etc.) will be forwared if are not answering.

Now you can test it. Call your number from another phone, don't answer for 20 seconds, and the caller should get your voicemail.

To see the current status, call *#61#
To disable the forwarding, call #61#
To re-enable the forwarding to the same voicemail, call *61#
To disable the forwaring, and forget the number, call ##61#

Now you can repeat the exact same thing for "On Busy" or "Off/Unreachable". Just replace 61 with 62 or 67.
This works for Swisscom, but since these are standard GSM codes, it should work for any GSM service.

Btw: If you've setup the "Busy" forwarding, then if you get a call, and don't want to answer it right now, just click on the red "Decline" button on your iPhone. The caller will then get the chance to leave a message on your voicemail.

Enjoy.

Was machen die bei local.ch eigentlich so den ganzen Tag? Wie wird der Inhalt eine Suchabfrage zusammengetragen?
Dieser Film erklärt all dies und noch einiges mehr:

Genial, was? Wenn du uns also rumhetzen willst, dann einfach auf www.local.ch gehen und ein paar Suchabfragen starten