Tag Archives: work

Flattr, a great idea, a great video, great people behind

Flattr, a great idea, a great video, great people behind

Flattr is exactly what I dreamed of when I wrote my post about the donation-button-dilemma on open-source projects. Flattr, by the creators of the pirate bay, is a service that let’s you specify an amount you want to spend monthly, I don’t know what they plan, but let’s say 10€, and you can flattr any [...]

impressive, prezi and other ways to kill PowerPoint

I’ve to admit, I haven’t used PowerPoint for 4 years, mostly because no one wanted me to present anything. Times have changed, I had to do 4 presentations in one week lately. Being forced to communicate through slides, I experienced a bit, and here’s my conclusion.
The first presentation was built using Keynote, which is part [...]

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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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, [...]

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

First Impressions from Google I/O

Hey! I’m currently located in session room 09 and learning on how to code thee for android. Back to the headline.
After being opened by Eric Schmidt, the whole Keynote thingy mainly concentrated on HTML5 features. These features are really impressive, be it a video-tag, the canvas element ( max ), background-worker processes and [...]

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 [...]