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A day at the Android Developer Lab World Tour in Zürich

A day at the Android Developer Lab World Tour in Zürich

What would you do if you had the chance to meet some fellow android developers at Google’s Europe HQ in Zürich for free? Yes, you register and go there. As did I, we. Unfortunately, someone at Google’s messed the times up, which lead to us having to depart in Stuttgart at 6am rather than 10am, [...]

qwerted released!

Hey, good news: qwerted is available on the android market as of now. It’s price point is 0.99$.

bored summary of the past day. / 750words, 1buckapp, java coding tipps

bored summary of the past day. / 750words, 1buckapp, java coding tipps

So, on this very exceptionally snowy day here in Stuttgart, i decided to procrastinate a bit and do some fun stuff. Because going outside would have been at least life-threatening, I decided that the most exciting adventure would be to clean the kitchen take a panorama image out of my 3 living room windows. Here [...]

iType becomes qwerted, Google is dominating my life.

Hey again. Happy new year. First of all, iType is the first project that looks like it’s going to be finished in time. That allows for two conclusions: either, it wasn’t hard to built or I am finally becoming a good programmer. I admit, it wasn’t hard to build then. I expect it to be [...]

Google Docs Privacy, Latex knowledge, project update

Hey! I haven’t been writing here in a while, so let’s have some updates.
First of all, I noticed something Techcrunch was also writing about some time ago, that google doesn’t protect embedded images in private documents in _any_ way. So basically, everything you upload there can be treated as public.
Next thing, latex, the typesetting system, [...]

Business ideas: Which is the right one?

Honestly, I don’t know. But from what I can tell, the ones solving problems people have, even if they were not aware before, are the ones working. The other ideas usually don’t. What are problems worth solving?
I’d define a problem worth solving as something that has 3 attributes: It is persistent, in a sense that [...]

Goodbye, Finland

So this is the last post from my room in Finland, tomorrow I’m heading home. I’m very grateful for the people I’ve met, the things I’ve learned and the endless nights spent on the road. Thank you all!

Happy first month

I’m doing this post for two reasons. The first one is that I really need to distract myself from C++ inconsistencies, the Intel 8051 instruction set and my inability to learn finnish verbs. I actually doubt that I will pass that exam tomorrow, but I keep trying, that’s the least I have to do. The [...]

What my fellows are doing: Study projects

A lot of stuff. Mostly, their blogs and documentation of their study-related projects is in german ( which is not a big deal if you’re german .. haha ), but I think that it’s interesting to take a look at what they are doing.
Tommy was or is ( he claims to be at 90% ) [...]

Microsoft Songsmith on a MacBook Pro

I guess you’ve already witnessed Microsoft dropping it’s zero-drug policy, and the first obvious result. The Microsoft Songsmith Spot was certainly created by some kind of PR-genius. They are using a MacBook Pro to actually demo the software in the clip, a good choice, but don’t you think that it’s a bit too obvious how [...]