world cup pictures
July 1st, 2006
bar camp berlin 2006
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
June 28th, 2006how to videochat with ichat when i doesn’t actually work
June 26th, 2006disclaimer: 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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June 26th, 2006
streamlined for rails
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
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.
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June 22nd, 2006
new pictures: sailing trip on the baltic sea
June 19th, 2006
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i have been on a 1-week sailing trip on the baltic sea and took some pictures…
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