Archive for the 'Nothing' Category
world cup pictures
Saturday, July 1st, 2006
bar camp berlin 2006
Friday, June 30th, 2006the 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 
22c3 video recordings
Wednesday, June 28th, 2006freund und helfer
Monday, June 26th, 2006
streamlined for rails
Sunday, June 25th, 2006streamlined 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).
Tags:plugin rails ruby on rails scaffold streamlinedbumptop - desktop enhanced
Thursday, June 22nd, 2006bumptop is a prototype implementation of a new computer desktop. instead of having a simple 2D screen with flat icons you can now 3D-rotate, resize and even pile up the icons in order to more easily and more powerfully sort and browse them. looks all really slick, there is also a pretty funny hip-hop version of the video available.
i think the approach has a couple of problems: it still uses icons instead of a preview of the actual contents (the video shows an example where actual pictures can be seen, though). how am i going to find the pdf i’m looking for in a pile of pdf icons that all look the same? also, it appears that there is no zooming or panning functionality. i have a couple of thousand of photos on my computer, are they all going to fit on this tiny desktop thing? from what i’ve seen i would say bumptop is a nice little enhancement to today’s desktop experience, but it’s far from what i hope to have as my future desktop one day.
Tags:maulwuerfe
Thursday, June 22nd, 2006
mobile blogging
Sunday, June 11th, 2006…also works on the baltic sea, somewhere near the coast of denmark.
some freighter ship
parts of the crew (but not me)
Tags:baltic sea denmark mobile blogging sailing sea
online banking 2.0
Thursday, May 18th, 2006why hasn’t anyone implemented this?: a simple (maybe xml, or better yaml or …. ) data format for storing bank transfer instruction. i want the people on ebay that i buy stuff from send me a little text snippet that i can copy&paste into my online banking site. my bank can then parse it and present me with a filled out bank transfer form that i just have to confirm - instead of me copying every piece of information - account number, name, branch number, amount etc - into all those fields manually.
some banking IT person please read this and do it.
Tags:bank bank transfer xml yaml