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gorgeous minecraft renderings – using opensource and blender
There you are – you’ve spent hundreds of hours, maybe together with friends, in a game called Minecraft. You mined and you crafted. And you built yourself your own world. Out of blocks. “Minecraft is a...
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What happened to: realtime Radiosity lighting
Back in 2006 I wrote about a new technology which the also new company Geomerics was demoeing. Back in 2006 everything was just a demo. Now it seems that Geomerics found some very well known customers...
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extending the house storage
In times when mobile phone cameras produce pictures of 2 MBytes each and decent DSLR cameras produce pictures in the range of more than 20 Mbytes each – not speaking of the various sensors around the...
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ELV MAX! Cube C# Library – control your cube!
I was asked if it would be possible to get the ELV MAX! Cube interfacing functionality outside of h.a.c.s. – maybe as a library. Sure! That is possible. And to speed up things I give you the ELV MAX!...
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Build a Brain – SPAUN
SPAUN or Semantic Pointer Architecture Unified Network is a promising next step in the pursuit to simulate a human brain. Built upon the Nengo Neural Simulator scientists at the University in...
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putting h.a.c.s. (or other) sensory data into a motion based webcam image
I am using some Raspberry Pis to monitor the areas around the house. Mainly because it’s awesome to see how many animals are roaming around in your garden throughout the day. On the Pi I am using the...
View Articlemy home is my castle – CastleOS: the home automation operating system
And once again some smart people put their heads together and came up with something that will revolutionize your world. Well it’s ‘just’ home automation but indeed it looks very very promising....
View Article0 A.D. – A free, open-source game
“0 A.D. (pronounced “zero-ey-dee”) is a free, open-source, historical Real Time Strategy (RTS) game currently under development by Wildfire Games, a global group of volunteer game developers. As the...
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an ode to the beauty of code by the example of the source code of Doom 3
It’s been a habbit to ID software to release the source code of their previous games and game engines as open source when time is due. That’s what happened with Doom 3 as well. Since beautiful code...
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I know what you did last night: the commit logs from last night.
If you can stand a little bit of cursing and bad words and if you’re a developer. You should give this site a visit. The commit logs from last night speak for themselves: Source:...
View Articlehow about some big data?
If you need data to fill your brand new (graph) database, go ahead, there’s something to load: “KONECT (the Koblenz Network Collection) is a project to collect large network datasets of all types in...
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personal annual reports
The report for 2012 is in! Since 2008 Jehiah Czebotar is monitoring his daily life and he is compiling a report from that data for everyone to read. He self says that this is a hat tip to Nicholas...
View Articlethe ZIP file that never ends…
Everybody knows ZIP files. It’s what comes out when you compress something on windows and on OS X. It’s the commonly used format to store and exchange compressed data. Now there’s a lot of things you...
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DevOps reactions
“Say it with pictures. Describe your feelings about your everyday sysadmin interactions.” Source 1: http://devopsreactions.tumblr.com/archive
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Automated Picture Tank and Gallery for a photographer
Since my wife started working as a photographer on a daily basis the daily routine of getting all the pictures off the camera after a long day filled with photo shootings got her bored quickly. Since...
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Adobe Photoshop version 1 source code
It’s becoming a fashion lately to release the source code of older but legendary commercial products to the public. Now Adobe decided to gift the source code of their flagship product Photoshop in it’s...
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the Panic Status Board is here!
Last year in June I wrote about the concept of a ubiquitous status display of the business in every office. Especially for development and operations it’s pretty important to have important...
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IPv6 Migrationsleitfaden für die öffentliche Verwaltung
Die verfügbaren IPv4 Adressen neigen sich dem Ende und IPv6 wird kommen. Da gibt es keinen Zweifel! Dieses Weblog beispielsweise ist seit über zwei Jahren nativ über IPv6 erreichbar. Nun wird es mit...
View ArticleHyperlapse – a streetview experiment
More and more javascript experiments bubble up on the internets and a particularly interesting one is called “Hyperlapse”: “Hyper-lapse photography – a technique combining time-lapse and sweeping...
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a kilobyte of javascript – js1k
What do you think can you do with 1 kilobyte of javascript? Not a lot you might think. In fact it’s quite a lot! Similar to the 4k and 64k demo awards now there is a 1k javascript competition: “This is...
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Node.js integrated development environment… sort of
I started working on a Node.js project and so far it’s a quite satisfying experience. But what is Node.js? “Node.js is a software platform that is used to build scalable network (especially...
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full text transcripts of the Apple World Wide Developer Conference (wwdc)
Since I’ve become sort of an iOS developer lately I had my fair share of WWDC recordings to get started with this whole CocoaTouch and Objective-C development stuff. Now a tool that is pretty handy is...
View Articlethe dark side of user interface design
Dark Patterns: User Interfaces Designed to Trick People (Presented at UX Brighton 2010) from Harry Brignull “A Dark Pattern is a type of user interface that appears to have been carefully crafted...
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the Miataru Browser Client Application is here!
After getting the server and the iOS client application to the people I’ve sat down and started doing something I have not done yet – writing a web application with no server side except a standard...
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Xcode Cheat Sheet
While I am using Xcode a lot lately I quickly got used to one or two keyboard shortcuts that come in handy once every while. This cheat sheet aims at bringing you a lot of shortcuts that are pretty...
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“Compressing” JSON to JSON
JSON Logo The internet and all those browsers and javascript applications brought data structures that are pretty straight-forward. One of them is JSON. The wikipedia tells about JSON: “JSON...
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setting up boblight with a Raspberry Pi and RaspBMC
Some might know AmbiLight – a great invention by Philips that projects colored light around a TV screen based upon the contents shown. It’s a great addition to a TV but naturally only available with...
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GraphHopper: blazingly fast routes with OpenStreetMap
Playing with OpenStreetMap resources lately I came to the point where I wanted to calculate routes between points based on the OSM data. Now there is GraphHopper to the rescue! It’s opensource and...
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document your REST interfaces with style: Swagger
“Swagger is a specification and complete framework implementation for describing, producing, consuming, and visualizing RESTful web services. The overarching goal of Swagger is to enable client and...
View ArticleOn-Screen OCR – helps you when all you get is an image…
“You want to extract one paragraph of text from a pdf your coworker sent you? One quote from your professor’s presentation? A couple of code lines from this tutorial clip on your favourite movie...
View ArticleZFS Tutorial
“ZFS is really the final word in filesystems. With a feature set longer than this tutorial, it can take a while to master. You can set many more options per dataset, enable disk usage quotes and much...
View ArticleHow to fix a mono CS0589 Internal compiler error during...
When you want to compile some C# code using MONO on Linux on your RaspberryPi and you encounter this strange error message: error CS0589: Internal compiler error during parsingSystem.FormatException...
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Brackets: a multi-platform editor written in javascript – including NodeJS
“Brackets is an open source code editor for web designers and front-end developers.” On the first tries it’s an awesome thing to have all that JavaScript debugging, Live HTML editing and what-not in...
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when javascript equality checks, always use ===
Source: http://dorey.github.io/JavaScript-Equality-Table/
View ArticleMOSH (Mobile Shell) – fixing SSH for everyone
How many times did you experience a connection loss on your terminal window in the last week? Yeah I know – like everytime you close the lid of your notebook and move to a different place. So like a...
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using the RaspberryPi to make all SONOS speakers support Apple Airplay
Airplay allows you to conveniently play music and videos over the air from your iOS or Mac OS X devices on remote speakers. Since we just recently “migrated” almost all audio equipment in the house to...
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Boblight Alternative: Hyperion
After setting up Boblight on two TVs in the house – one with 50 and one with 100 LEDs – I’ve used it for the last 5 months on a daily basis almost. First of all now every screen that does not come with...
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Scaling Linux: Perfomance Tools and Measurements
If you ever experienced a missmatch between the performance you expected from a server or application running on Linux you probably started to debug your way into it why the applications performance...
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Nitrous – full IDE in your browser – with Collaboration!
“Nitrous is a backend development platform which helps software developers save time by cutting out the repetitive parts of creating development environments and automating them. Once you create your...
View ArticleDo you need an alternative shell for your terminal?
“Commands have been a big part of computing ever since the 1970′s. Their power comes from their simplicity. Just type a word or two to do what you want. The time has come to bring this power...
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a new Music Service for SONOS: xenim streaming network
I am a frequent podcast live-stream listener. And being that I am enjoying the awesome service called xenim streaming network. Any Podcast producer can join the xsn and with that can live-stream his...
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when you’re working late: grant your eyes a rest
“Ever notice how people texting at night have that eerie blue glow? Or wake up ready to write down the Next Great Idea, and get blinded by your computer screen? During the day, computer screens look...
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blast from the past: a Console Framework for .NET
“Console framework is cross-platform toolkit that allows to develop TUI applications using C# and based on WPF-like concepts.” Source 1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text-based_user_interface Source 2:...
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in case of emergency: spoof your MAC address
There have been several occasions in the past years that I had to quickly change the MAC address of my computer in order to get proper network connectivity. May it be a corporate network that does...
View ArticleI wish there was: cheap network microphones with open source speech recognition
I was on a business trip the other day and the office space of that company was very very nice. So nice that they had all sorts of automation going on to help the people. For example when you would run...
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the xenim streaming network SONOS integration now plays recent shows!
Since I am frequently using the xenim streaming network service but I was missing out on the functionality to replay recent shows. With the wonderful functionality of Re-Live made available...
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How to weigh your cat! – the IoT version
This is Leela. She is a 7 year old lilac white British short hair cat that lives with us. Leela had a sister who used to live with us as well but she developed a heart condition and passed away last...
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“making your home smarter”, use case #8 – it’s all about the power consumption
Weekend is laundry time! The smart house knows and sends out notifications when the washing machine or the laundry dryer are done with their job and can be cleared. Of course this can all be extended...
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“making your home smarter”– use case #12 – How much time do I have until…?
Did you notice that most calendars and timers are missing an important feature. Some information that I personally find most interesting to have readily available. It’s the information about how much...
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Converting ひらがな to “hiragana” and カタカナ to “katakana”– Romaji command line tool
I had this strange problem that my car was not able to display japanese characters when confronted with them. Oh the marvels of inserting a USB stick into a car from 2009. stupid BMW media player...
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