Netbook as PDF-Reader ( Ubuntu )

Netbook as PDF-Reader ( Ubuntu )

A buddy of mine made a great script allowing you to instantly rotate your netbooks screen 90°, which enables you to read PDFs more comfortable. You should definitely have a look at it, as its a nice addition to any ubuntu-powered netbook.

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 [...]

iType Demo Video online – finally getting real

iType, my project, is finally getting close to release state. But talking is boring, so here is a short demo clip. If you have any questions, please write to itypeapp @ gmail.com
I am looking for beta testers, so if you want to test it, please let me know!

iType Demo Video from Moritz Haarmann on Vimeo.
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RandomAccessFile weirdness explained, no buffers, just pain.

Ola! I’ve been coding a new android keyboard lately, a project for my university degree but also : for fun. While I was doing this, specially while implementing a file-based dictionary containing frequency information of all words stored in there, I stumbled upon a very, very weird Java-behavior.
Let’s explain it. Using RandomAccessFile, you have both [...]

Gravatar Mac Address Book Support Updated for Snow Leopard

Because the bundle somehow didn’t work for snow leopard, now it does, and you can get it here. of course . So basically, your mac adressbook is now able to get the gravatars again.. hrhr-

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, [...]

Finally, finally -> transition time.

My work-in-progress blog-engine can be seen at github, it’s called blogotronic and of course, in wildlife mode, at blogotronic.brauchtman.net, a test spot. so please check there and notify me of any bugs. thank you.

Finally: Wordpress Benchmark

Finally: Wordpress Benchmark

So, there are no real benchmarks of a Wordpress running in the wild available ( couldn’t believe it either.. ). So I got my ab and gnuplot friends and created one. The reason why I’m doing this that while developing ( or forking, to be honest, marc’s work ) i was curious what php can [...]

Why filenames and folders matter. not.

Just read a satirical post in a german magazine, concerning the different kinds of file-sorting on desktop machines. Unfortunately, the article is unable to figure out the core evil, that is, the ultimate need to store everything in files and folders.
Honestly, try to remember the last time you tried to find a web page using, [...]

Erlang-Slides

Alright, the slides are in german, so for the rest: sorry. I did this presentation for an interesting course at my university called “trending programming languages”, so if you like to learn a bit about erlang, go right ahead and read it.
Erlang-Presentation