Archive for October, 2005

the MP3 experiment 2.0

Tuesday, October 25th, 2005

improv everywhere, an improvisation group located in NYC, launched another of their MP3 events.

a couple of days before the event, people could download an mp3 file from the web site, being told to put it on their mp3 player and go to central park on a particular day and time - and not to listen to it in advance. the mp3 contained instructions on what to do once they heard a siren from some guy with a megaphone in the park. what happened? see yourself by …. watching the video and reading the article

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new pictures: bike tour and festival of lights 05

Saturday, October 22nd, 2005

photo album

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my 2 day september bike tour.

at the 2005 berlin festival of lights, the city’s most famous buidlings and streets had been illuminated in splendid colors for almost a week.

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secret service tracks printouts

Tuesday, October 18th, 2005

as the EFF has revealed now, color laser printers, by request of the U.S. secret service, mark every printout with the date of the print and the serial number of the device(!).

that way, secret service can track the origin of every prinout made.

the eff team had found tiny yellow dots on the pages and has now manged to decrypt those.

big brother is watching.

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introducing techtisch

Tuesday, October 18th, 2005


techtisch is a newly founded interest group of people who want to know more about all the exciting technologies, methodologies, best practices etc. related to information technology.

they (well, we) are still in the process of finding out if there are enough people to start with, but the plan is to meet monthly or so, one of us giving a presentation about a certain topic he/she(!) is interedtes in, followed by a discussion in a friendly atmosbeer.

everyone is welcome to join, just sign up at the web page http://techtisch.langalex.org and wait for the next event to be announced or contact one of us.

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wikibooks.org

Monday, October 17th, 2005

wikibooks.org is a collection of freely available books, available in multiple languages.

topics range from LaTeX over learning Chinese, Art History to Mac OS X.

books are stored as wiki pages using wikipedia’s mediawiki system, so anyone can contribute.

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identity 2.0 presentation (great)

Friday, October 14th, 2005

dick hardt held a presentation about identity 2.0 at OSCON 2005 - how can people prove their identity on the internet in a better way than it’s done these days.

even if you are not interested in the topic at all, just watch it. the presentation style is just awesome. and apparently inspired by lawrence lessig, as he admits in the end.

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short movie: leroy

Friday, October 14th, 2005

leroy is a pretty funny short movie about … well, black skin heads, turks in bmws, berlin. who knows. german with english subtitles. watch it (quicktime)

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Die Zeit unofficial Podcast

Thursday, October 13th, 2005

i got bored of work today, plus, i got the first issue of my ‘Die Zeit’ subscription today - well, there had to be something to do about it. there was :)

having a Zeit subscription also gives me access to the audio version of many articles on their web site - unfortunately, there is no podcast available so i could have the articles downloaded to my ipod automatically. well, there was none.

i spent the afternoon writing a little java app that searches the zeit.de site for new audio articles and presents the results as a podcast. it therefore runs a little web server on the local computer, so one can just point iTunes or whatever podcasting client at localhost and that’s it. of course, you still need a Zeit subscription or premium account to access the files. anyone who’s interested can download the little app including sources from here. feedback welcome.

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JavaOne 2005 presentations

Wednesday, October 12th, 2005

there is a bunch of presentatiuon from 2005’s JavaOne conference available at http://www3.java.no/JavaZone/2005/torrents/

the format is divx/avi, you will need bittorrent to download them.

the following topics are available:

  • Rich_Internet_Apps
  • Beyond.Java
  • Lightweight.Development.Strategies
  • Web_Services_Security
  • What.is.the.ideal.weight.of.your.container
  • Domain.Driven Design
  • Refactoring_multi_paradigm
  • EJB.vs.ORMapping
  • Why_I_Hate_SOA
  • Pragmatic.SOA
  • Managing.Web.Conversations.with.Spring.Web.Flow
  • Pattern_Connections
  • TDD_BareBone_Basics
  • Intro_JSF
  • Struts_to_JSF
  • Java.At.Google
  • JOnAS.IAP
  • AJAX
  • Webwork.In.Action
  • EJB2.1.vs.EJB3
  • New.Integration.Possibilites.With.WSRP
  • Escaping.the.Technology.Cycle
  • Effective.Enterprise.Java
  • JBoss.5.Lightweight.Middleware.With.EJB3
  • what_is_missing_from…
  • Maven.2

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rails in eclipse

Wednesday, October 5th, 2005

there finally is an eclipse plugin for ruby on rails - RadRails

New features include being able to setup and run a WEBrick server, new wizards for generating models, controllers, and running the scaffold command. We have started work on the documentation, which is available under the Help Contents menu item now.

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