Tag Archives: geek

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.

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, [...]

La Fonera 2n – Hands on, darling

La Fonera 2n – Hands on, darling

La Fonera 2n – Hands on, darling
Since saturday, I’m sick lying in bed and keep trying not to annoy my girlfriend too much ( well, not that successfully i suppose ). Anyhow, I ordered a Fonera 2n last week, and it happened to arrive today. So after some unboxing ( UPS packaging materials can be [...]

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 [...]

Finally: ActiveResource with Service Discovery and Authentication

Yay. In case you’re looking for a release, there is none. Not yet, we are maybe going to release one, but it’s a question of time rather than a lack of good will.
Why. In my current position, I am building a set of applications ( most of them rails based ) communicating with each other [...]

Whihyhhaha: Android Native Development Kit released

As of yesterday, there is a Native Developer Kit for Android available. This came as a surprise for me, as there were not many rumors covering that topic, but regarding the broad coverage on the iphone 3gs lately, and most of all it’s amazing speed, Google certainly had to do something to keep Android in [...]

Using ActiveResource in the wild

My last posts haven’t been quite technical, and they haven’t been quite recent too- I’m sorry, yet I just don’t have time. As a brief follow-up: it has been overwhelming in San Francisco ( except for the 300$-dentist bill ), and I’m so looking forward to coming back.
And, tada, I’ve been spending the last few [...]

Web Development and MVC: a pain somewhere, cont’d.

Our beloved model-view-controller pattern seems to act as an excuse for every damn web-framework out there. Yet there is one problem. From my point of view, no framework to date has ever managed to slice a web application in a useful way. Really. Why?
First of all, it should be clear that patterns just like MVC [...]

Waiting for… Android wishlist

Welcome in the middle of my night, I’m currently spending my days working, my evenings eating ( barbecue, it’s gettin’ hot in here.. ) and my nights either trying to watch my favorite TV-shows or sleeping. And if none of those shows is on, my head notices me of several thoughts, most of the time [...]

Implementing a Ruby-Based LDAP-Server

Oh yes. Good question. Why would anyone want to implement a LDAP Server? Besides the fact the OpenLDAP is a pain to set up and isn’t really rewarding in terms of perfomance, there are situations demanding LDAP Access to data residing in some kind of RDBMS. And that’s my motivation.
After seriously thinking about doing it all [...]