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bar camp berlin 2006

Friday, June 30th, 2006

the first bar camp berlin will be held from Sep 30 to Oct 1. they call themselves an unconference: everyone can come, though the motto is ‘no audience, only participants’ - so everyone who wants to come has to give a talk or do something interesting - cool idea. i’ll be there, maybe talk about ruby or rails or xp … or … ajax… dsls … whatever. as long as it’s web 2.0 buzzword compliant ;)

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22c3 video recordings

Wednesday, June 28th, 2006

the video (and audio) recordings of the 22c3 (22nd chaos communication congress) are available as podcasts. the video format is h.264 mp4 (ipod video compatible).

(via tim)

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how to videochat with ichat when i doesn’t actually work

Monday, June 26th, 2006

disclaimer: this is getting pretty complicated in the end, you should know how to use a shell (err, Terminal.app) and what ip addresse and ports are.

now that every macbook (pro) user owns the means to make video conferences, it was time for me to give it a try, too. with its h.264 video codec, ichat offers damn good video quality and i haven’t seen anything else that can compete (anything else that’s free, free for mac users at least).

(you can skip the blahblah if you want to)

following the habits of a happy mac user, i fired up ichat, added a (macbook pro) friend to the buddy list and clicked on the video chat button, expecting everything to work just fine - as usual - but it didn’t. it didn’t work. hey, it’s an apple, it’s supposed to work out of the box. well, i soon discovered that my dsl router is in fact not from apple, and my friend’s neither - gotcha. a bit of googling revealed that we were not the only ones on the world having this problem. apparently, some people managed to get video chat running by forwarding some ports through their nat routers and breaking holes into their firewalls. didn’t work for us.

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streamlined for rails

Sunday, June 25th, 2006

streamlined is a soon-to-be-released ruby on rails extension. it aims at replacing rails’ integrated scaffolding generator with a much better CRUD application generation. i’m really looking forward to it as the controllers generated by rails are nice in the beginning but in 90% of the cases have to be replaced as they are just too simple and not usable for production, so i still keep spending way too much time on implementing these damn forms over and over again (sigh).

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reading pdf documents on a mac laptop

Saturday, May 6th, 2006
powerbook as is in book

apple’s preview has a feature that comes in very handy when reading larger documents on the screen: you can rotate any file in steps of 90 degrees by pressing [apple]+[r]/[l]. just rotate 90 degrees left, turn your laptop right and you can hold it like a book, having a screen that easily displays an entire A4 page without scrolling. for even better reading: turn on fullscreen - [apple]-[shift]-[f].

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google code jam 2006

Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006

the next google code jam europe is coming up….

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customizing trac

Tuesday, April 25th, 2006

trac is a lightweight, web based (software) project management tool. it includes a wiki, a ticketing/bug tracking system and a subversion browser.

i’m using trac for several projects, and am pretty happy with it. just one thing has always bothered me: after creating a new ticket, i usually want to get back to my favourite tickets report (in my case show active tickets grouped by priority). in the standard trac configuration, i have to click on view tickets in the main menu and then click on the correct report - way too much work after you’ve done it 1000 times.

so here is how to add your favourite ticket report to trac’s main menu:

  • locate a file called header.cs, you can find it in trac’s template folder. on debian this is /usr/share/trac/templates/
  • find out the id of the report you want to link to, it’s the number in the report url. in this example http://domain.com/trac/report/2 the report id is 2
  • copy it to <your trac instance>/templates
  • open it and look for <div id="mainnav">
  • this div contains all the links in the main menu
  • add the following code where you want your report link to appear:
    call:navlink("My Ticket Report", trac.href.report+"/2", ticket_view, trac.acl.REPORT_VIEW, "") ?>
  • replace 2 with your report id
  • that’s it.

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firefox ads

Thursday, April 13th, 2006

firefoxflicks.com is collecting suggestions for creating a 30s tv ad for firefox. there are a couple of videos on display already. this one’s *so funny*:


oh and this one by pete macomber is so cool:

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Wordpress Gallery Plugin

Tuesday, April 11th, 2006

I have written a small wordpress plugin to integrate my photo galleries with the blog. As you can see I have been using it already in the last couple of days. It displays the random picture in the side bar and is also responsible for the picture viewers in my posts.

it requires a software called gallery installed on the same computer as wordpress to work. you can find all the information and download it here.

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Actually programming flash

Thursday, April 6th, 2006

i’ve always hated flash because of the (to me) totally weird gui, which made it damn hard to create flash movies. now nico on progchannel.net discovered an open source solution based on eclipse where you can create flash simply by programming in an editor. he even created a screencast tutorial

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