Today I arrived in Seoul, South Korea. I am here for a four weeks research stay at the HCI lab of the Konkuk University together with Nadia, a colleague of mine. The stay is part of a joint research project between the RheinMain University of Applied Sciences and Konkuk University, and one of our goals [...]
October 11th, 2010 | General, Announcement | research, konkuk university, korea, seoul | No Comments
In the last article I introduced the highly recommendable book ”Clean Code“ written by Robert C. Martin. While I tried to essentially describe what the book is about and what’s so great about it, I would like to comment on some of his so-called ”code smells“. I do not want to challenge the quality of [...]
September 21st, 2010 | General, Programming | agile methods, book, code, software development | No Comments
As a software developer you are facing many different tasks you have to deal with. Requirements have to be gathered, architectures created, algorithms selected or designed, tests specified, changes considered and finally (and not to an insignificant part) code created and modified. Like in the other areas of software development, one question arises also in [...]
September 19th, 2010 | General, Programming | agile methods, book, code, software development | No Comments
When I just wanted to install the shared network printer on my wife’s new MacBook Pro, I was pretty much at a loss. The printer just didn’t want to show up in the list of available printers, even though I can see and use it without any problems from my laptop (also a MacBook Pro). [...]
September 17th, 2010 | General | CUPS, printing, mac os x, network, ubuntu | No Comments
Just re-discovered: the Color Scheme Designer. This nice tool immensely helps selecting a coherent color scheme for websites, documents, diagrams and many more. As a nice extra feature, it allows to see the colors with the eyes of a color blind person, which allows to early avoid accessibility problems.
November 4th, 2009 | General | design, tools | No Comments
October 15th, 2009 | General | microsoft, office:mac, problems | No Comments
My already one year old Acer Aspire One is still a very usable netbook. I have bought it in july last year to write my diploma thesis on it (during train travel). It is simply a modern typewriter which can be used for more if neccessary (even Eclipse runs on it, if you really need [...]
Seit dem 10. Juni 2009 läuft jeden zweiten Donnerstag wieder eine neue Folge der etwas skurrilen Internetshow Contrasehen. Nachdem die erste Staffel mit ihren 40 Folgen zunächst sehr strukturiert begann, dann aber das Konzept verloren ging und die Sendung im Chaos unterzugehen drohte, macht die aktuell laufende zweite Staffel nun Nägel mit Köpfen und verfolgt [...]
August 16th, 2009 | General | contrasehen, television, internetshow, podcast, fun | 1 Comment
In meinem aktuellen Desktop-PC hatte ich bei dem letzten Upgrade vor 1,5 Jahren bewusst eine NVIDIA Grafikkarte eingesetzt, da der ATI-Support unter Linux zuvor immer etwas durchwachsen war und überall zu lesen war, wie viel besser doch NVIDIA Produkte funktionieren. Tatsächlich lief die MSI NX8400GS TD512E (heise Preisvergleich) auch tadellos mit zwei Monitoren, wenn auch [...]
June 25th, 2009 | General | ati-amd, linux, nvidia, ubuntu | No Comments
Neben den ernsthaften Themen muss von Zeit zu Zeit auch mal etwas Spaß sein. Heute begab es sich, dass zwischen einem Herrn Lee und mir die Diskussion aufkam, ob denn eine Kiste CDs nun schwerer sei als eine gleiche Kiste voller Bücher. Ich vertrat die Auffassung, die Kiste Bücher müsste schwerer sein, er war überzeugt, [...]
April 21st, 2009 | General | fun | No Comments
