December 2007
26 posts
Social Networking Sites: Disconnection →
Not sure whether this qualifies as funny or sad (in two ways).
Turned it in.
I turned in my thesis yesterday! To everyone who supported me during the past 6 months and especially during the last few days now, thank you so much! I am so relieved … :D
PowerPoint: sometimes you have to laugh to keep... →
Daniel just dug up some hilarious videos posted on Presentation Zen that I had sent him some months ago. I post them here so I remember to watch them again once my thesis is done. Will submit it tomorrow. :)
The Mii Lebowski →
A reenactment of the rug-peeing discussion at the bowling lanes from The Big Lebowski. Using Mii characters. Playing Wii bowling.
The poster has arrived!
innoQ really did send me a huge WS-* poster, awesome! Thank you! They didn’t resort to one poster, though, but instead sent me three of them together with three innoQ-branded calendars. I have put one of the poster on my wall, while the excess posters have already been claimed. :)
the sixtyone →
A Web 2.0 music discovery site reselling mp3 files from Amazon. You can “bump” music you like and earn points if others also bump the same songs. The points you earned can be used to bump more songs. Yes, it’s funny how everyone tries to find new words for “digging” something. But all this is not what made me post this link. What makes the site stand out is its...
w00t! w00t is Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year! →
This somewhat irritates me.
Stefan Tilkov explains REST →
Fluid - a site-specific Browser for Mac OS X →
Give Fluid a URL and a name, e.g. “http://docs.google.com/” and “Google Docs”. It will then create a stand-alone Mac OS X application that is basically a browser specifically for Google Docs. This way you can create a dedicated desktop application out of every web application! Although it is a first beta release and still lacks some features, e.g. keychain support to save...
SLOCCount →
Count source LOC in a given directory, then displaying some metrics that are fun to read. Installable via MacPorts. Running it on the code I wrote for my thesis so far produces this: Total Physical Source Lines of Code (SLOC) = 3,363 Development Effort Estimate, Person-Years (Person-Months) = 0.71 (8.58) (Basic COCOMO model, Person-Months = 2.4 * (KSLOC**1.05)) Schedule Estimate,...
Introducing Project Zero →
“Event handlers in Project Zero do not have explicit input and output parameters […]”. I understand. In death, event handlers of Project Zero have explicit input and output parameters. Their names are Robert Paulson.
Mac OS X runs deleted applications →
Some minutes ago I wondered: why do I have multiple versions of the same applications in the “Open with …” dialog? See the linked blog entry — ugly. I’d love to restrict LaunchServices to the internal hard drive.
Flickr Collection: Web UI Design Patterns →
SOAP vs. REST - Bringing the Web back into Web... →
The most neutral SOAP vs. REST discussion I’ve read so far. From the Web Services and Service Oriented Architectures lecture of the IKS Research Group (ETH Zürich).
“Here is an audacious goal for your resume: to get you to a point in your career...”
– Rands in Repose: Michael Lopp on Resumes
Letterbox for Leopard public beta →
Finally Aaron Harnly posted an update for the awesome letterbox Mail.app plugin, now coming with an easy-to-use preference pane. It installs smoothly using the MailPluginManager.app that he included, and which finally provides an unproblematic procedure for installing, uninstalling, enabling and disabling Mail.app plugins.
“For the superior performer the goal isn’t just repeating the same thing...”
– Dr. K. Anders Ericsson
Model-driven is doomed! Not.
Joel Spolsky just posted the first part of a talk he gave at Yale University. It’s a fun read, but some of the claims should be taken with a grain of whatever suits you best: “Now, the geeks are interested in the narrowly technical aspects of quality. They focus on things they can see in the code, rather than waiting for the users to judge. “ - We have Usability Testing for...
WatchI suppose everyone except me has known this forever, but only today did *I* stumble upon it: to unclutter the Problems View in Eclipse, you can configure its filter to only show problems occuring in the current element’s project!
WS-* Poster →
The German / Swiss company innoQ will send you a free WS-* poster in DIN A0 size if you cover the shipping expenses. Seems like a nice trophy to put on my wall once the Thesis is done.
“Software architects don’t use SOA. SOA uses software architects.”
– SOA Facts
The Web is Agreement →
Check out the PDF linked in the image description to zoom into details. Seems my Master’s Thesis is just a climbing of the Towers of WS-Babel.