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Monday, January 19th, 2009famous quotes from the lndw project
Monday, September 29th, 2008During the LNDW sessions we had quite some fun quotes coming up. Here are the ones I remember.
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Lange Nacht der Forschung
Monday, September 29th, 2008long time, no update!
Simon and I just finished our project for the “Lange Nacht der Forschung” a.k.a “European Researchers Night”. While it was quite exhausting during the last week (~75 workhours from monday – friday) the results where quite satisfying. Thank you to everybody who contributed!
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boost::thread, condition variables & member initialization order
Monday, September 29th, 2008It’s been a while since I used the boost library. The threads library is pretty nice, but there is one major issue concerning member initialization order and thread construction. (more…)
why does erlang scale so well?
Saturday, September 29th, 2007When I first heard about Erlang, I read about the article in Wikipedia. It states that Erlang is a “general-purpose concurrent programming language and runtime system”. While most of the phrases in that definition are pretty easily understandable on the first read, the word concurrent got my attention. I won’t go through the reasons of why concurrency is a bullshit-bingo phrase at the moment. Just slap google with multi-core and you’ll know why.
Are we really thinking sequential?
Friday, September 28th, 2007Waterstorm public beta released …
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007… a “when it’s done”-job gets finally done.
I am happy to report that our friends at Rarebyte Game Development released the public beta of Waterstorm, their fast paced 2D multiplayer submarine action shooter.
I am even more happy and proud to see that a small, independent game developer managed to create a entertaining game and support all major operating systems from the very beginning. Many big developers and distribution companies don’t care about the small (but growing) segment of Linux-gamers (and the apple users … of course 
) which makes this project an even larger success.
So don’t wait .. join the fun and tell your fiends!
Rarebyte’s release announcement:
The waiting has found its ending: Rarebyte’s newest incarnation, Waterstorm, a fast paced 2D multiplayer shooter, goes beta. Players from around the world can measure up against each other in a sophisticated ranking system and team up as clans.
A massive variety of sub marines and weaponry rock the boat in Waterstorm. Subaqueous battles with jaw-dropping graphics guaranteed and free of charge!
You can dive into the world of Waterstorm using Linux, Mac OS or Windows. So have no fear and register right this second at www.waterstorm-game.com
To learn more about Rarebyte please visit www.rarebyte.com
23c3 – a ping from day 2
Thursday, December 28th, 2006Hello out there, greetings from 23C3. Its day 2 already and I am still very excited. Interesting stuff all day, computer hacking and party all night.
Anyway I am looking forward to New Years Eve and partiing with friends.
Matthias
artists adapting to the reality
Wednesday, August 30th, 2006I happily noticed that many of my favourite bands and labels offer quite a lot of music online for free. And i am not talking about ugly 30-sec prelistening streams but full length and quality mp3 files.
Sure it would be nice to see some patent-free technology like ogg/vorbis but its a great first step anyway.
Another cool concept was implemented by finetunes.net, who sell high quality music (DRM free ogg or mp3) in a – in my opinion – fair pricing scheme. They feature many german and international independent-labels for several years now.
I think these facts show once again that great musicians (which happen to be non-mainstream most of the time ) don’t seem to fear piracy or current technologies at all. So lets hope that the big companies won’t destroy it all and there is no problem anymore
Some example bands would be The Dresden Dolls, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!, ..
CAPSoff
Monday, August 21st, 2006I am a very stupid keyboard typer. Every now and then I get angry because I need new batteries for my wireless desktop. Frequently I am annoyed because I CAPS or NUM Lock my input device.
One way out of my keyboard-hell would be buying a Happy Hacking Keyboard or one of those OLED ones. Both to expensive … I don’t get them as presents 
But! Look at http://capsoff.org/ they try to help me with the CAPSLock problem a little bit.
Regards
“when it’s done” v2.0
Monday, July 3rd, 2006Hmmm … suddenly the goal for a free/open java seems to be further away then ever …
Simon Phipps clarified in his blog that by “months rather than years” [away from open java] he was in fact referring to “double-digit months” which somewhat reminds me of the endless odyssey of the king of vaporware – Duke Nukem Forever.
Sure, his worries to create a source- and bytecode-compatible java base should be the top priority to ensure general success … and I don’t want to be the one responsible for making such a decision … but imagine how many years would fit into 99 months ..
I’ll keep my fingers crossed that the quest for a free/open java won’t end never-end like other ambitious projects.
Google Code Jam Europe
Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006Yesterday I received the notification that there will be a Google Code Jam Europe this summer. Last years Code Jam was a “worldwide event” which seemed to be well organized and was quite entertaining (even though i wasn’t THAT successful ).
The whole competition takes place in TopCoders coding arenas which is basically a java applet which provides multiuser chat for small groups of people competing against each other. There are several programming languages available which will be compiled and unit tested in a service oriented way (meaning you submit your code through the applet and get the compiler logs).
The whole event consists of several rounds with or without challenge phases, … (be sure to read and understand the rules )
Registration is open until the 23rd of May.
Google SOC 2006
Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006just submitted my proposal for the Google SOC 2006, I decided that I would like to contribute to the Moodle Project because they are using Moodle here at JKU. I hope I can integrate a Global Search module into Moodle. So then press your thumbs!