http://amazing-development.com ruby, java and the rest Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:17:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I stopped working on my RSS filter because I have to admit that Yahoo Pipes is damn good, way better than anything I could do on my own. One of my filters removed remove links with non-ascii titles from delicious/popular (no offense, but I cannot read Japanese/Chinese/Russian). This is a broad ... http://amazing-development.com/archives/2008/07/02/filter-unicode-ranges-in-yahoo-pipes/ I just stumbled over a this ad for someone to do the internationalization for (probably) chumby.com. I hope this means that they will start selling the chumby outside the US soon :-) Title: Ruby On Rails I18N Developer Skills: I18N, Ruby on Rails, mySQL ... Job description: ... Chumby Industries is ... http://amazing-development.com/archives/2008/06/02/chumby-goes-i18n-soon-available-outside-us/ Two days I got my chumby. Chumby Industries tries really hard to keep foreigners from buying one of their nice toys: they only accept US credit cards and shipping only to a US address. But I'm lucky, one of my colleagues from Mountain View ordered one for me. My experience so ... http://amazing-development.com/archives/2008/05/16/chumbytime/ I am looking for an intern (more details) for later this year. I have a number of interesting ideas for projects, most of them involve Ruby (more specific JRuby), Android and Eclipse. Your skill set should include at least Java and if possible Ruby and/or Eclipse API. I'm looking for a ... http://amazing-development.com/archives/2008/04/25/looking-for-an-intern/ Yesterday was Girl's day and our office hosted a few girls from schools in and around Munich. We used Kara to teach them a little bit about programming. You can create finite state machines to control a bug which runs around and tries to solve different problems. The girls did much ... http://amazing-development.com/archives/2008/04/25/girls-day-in-the-office/ I found the DIY page for demotivators and had to create one for Ruby. Enjoy! http://amazing-development.com/archives/2008/04/06/ruby-demotivator/ Yesterday I installed version 2.5 of Wordpress (which is great!) but the menu in the admin interface uses up a lot of screen estate. That's why I just patched wp-admin.css to save some of this precious space in the admin interface. Just follow the above link and replace your version ... http://amazing-development.com/archives/2008/03/30/darling-i-shrinked-the-menu/ Second day has started. Today it starts with a few talks on testing... George Malamidis — „Synthesized Testing“ Already 15min behind schedule, but so far interesting. This has 4 lines of code. It is already a big ruby function. Vassilis Rizopoulos — „rutema: One test tool to rule them all“ I'm thinking on how to ... http://amazing-development.com/archives/2008/03/30/euruko-2008-day-2/ The first day of EURUKO 2008 is over. Yukihiro „Matz“ Matsumoto — „Keynote“ Matz talked about the future of Ruby. It was very interesting. He talked a little bit about the upcoming features (I will link to the slides when they become available) and about the design decisions behind Ruby. For me ... http://amazing-development.com/archives/2008/03/29/euruko-2008-day1/ I just stumbled over an announcement about OLPC Germany. Last Tuesday was my first chance to play with an OLPC laptop. Everything but the keyboard feels incredibly solid and well made. The only thing I didn't like was the user interface. I found it quite non-intuitive but perhaps this gets ... http://amazing-development.com/archives/2008/03/06/one-laptop-per-child-germany/ I tried really hard not to trash my former2 company 1&1. But they are such an easy target :-) They will host a recruiting event called "nerd night" in Karlsruhe and have put a registration URL on the flyer for www.nerd-night.de. Does it work? No! At least yesterday and today it ... http://amazing-development.com/archives/2008/03/02/nerd-night/ I just found out about EURUKO 2008. It will take plaze in Prague, Czech Republic, on March 29th to 30th. From what I've heard are EURUKOs fun events and I would like to go this year if I can find the time especially because of this announcement: 19. 02. 2008 · ... http://amazing-development.com/archives/2008/02/26/euruko-2008-%e2%80%94-european-ruby-conference/ ...please learn about well formed URLs. And if it's really too hard for you to figure out, I would be happy to come over and help for a Finals ticket or two :-) What's the problem? I'm a nba fan and I subscribe to the NBA.com RSS feed (http://www.nba.com/rss/nba_rss.xml) which works fine ... http://amazing-development.com/archives/2008/02/23/dear-nbacom-developers/ I was thinking about buying a NAS (network attached storage) server for some time and looked at different products. My requirements are low power consuption, RAID support, and disk encryption. My current favorite is the TS-409 Pro Turbo NAS. It has: low power consuption (ok, sleep mode: 18.8W; in operation: 44.6W) RAID support ... http://amazing-development.com/archives/2008/02/15/should-i-buy-a-ts-409-pro-turbo-nas/ I moved to Munich a few month ago - well actually I move to Munich only a few days ago but my stuff is here for a few months already. But anyway, I don't have DSL yet. There are 6 or 7 WLANs in my building but these damn neighbors ... http://amazing-development.com/archives/2008/01/06/i-love-starbucks/ I got a nice Lego mindstorm box for Christmas. It's extremely cool. The graphical programming interface is a little bit childish but good enough to build the first few robots. Funny that nowadays building the robot is the most difficult part for such a project :-) Things to do: Watch and try ... http://amazing-development.com/archives/2007/12/25/geeky-christmas-present/