[de] Wer mich kennt, weiß, dass ich mich seit längerem mit einem Themenbereich beschäftige, den man im Englischen mit dem schönen Wort „fallacies“ umschreibt. Dieser Ausdruck umfasst einen weiten Bereich der Denkfehler, Fehlschlüsse und unfairen rhetorischen Mittel und hat eigentlich keine Entsprechung in der deutschen Sprache. Continue reading
The problem with <abbr> …
This is an essay on the proper markup for abbreviations and acronyms in HTML. If was first published as a series of posts on Yammer, but since we will discontinue the use of that tool, I thought I rather save it over here (it’s probably more accessible here anyways).
A word of warning: this is a long and complex topic and in the end there is no clear “one size fits all”-kind of answer. If you can’t stand this (as some people seem to), do not read on. Continue reading
XSLTool
If you don’t know what XSLT is and how to use it, go away. This here is not for you. Continue reading
Server Reliability: The Rule of Nines
After a little, er, let’s call it discussion I had with a certain supplier recently, I decided to write down a few words on server reliability and how to measure and understand it.
Like so many things that touch statistics it is very easy to take statements like “99.7% reliability” at face value without understanding its implications. Continue reading
The Forest’s Tooth – Song
Here’s a little song I wrote, enjoy!
(it’s Instrumental, but you dont mind, do you? 😉 )
Ninebone
I am a big fan of Draw with Jazza and follow his YouTube channel and I decided that I just have to take part in his November Challenge of the Month. The theme for this challenge was “Pokémon-Mashup”, that is, design a chimera of two or more different Pokémon. My idea was to create an amalgamation of the two Pokémon “Ninetails” and “Cubone”, wich resulted in me calling it “Ninebone”. Continue reading
Angry Dragon
A pretty self explanetoy Illustration-
A very angry Dragon! enjoy!
A First Look at Swift: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
This is a first look at Swift, Apple’s new programming language for MacOS and iOS development, which is still in Beta and thus by the time you are reading this, some of the bugs or features discussed here may have changed.
Also, while I have worked with a couple of programming languages over the years, I’m not really into all the latest academic hypes in language design. I’m only interested in one thing: is it fun to code in this language: can I solve problems in an efficient and elegant manner.
Having said this, it may not come as a surprise to you if I say that I never really got warm with Objective-C.
But let’s have a look at Swift now: Continue reading
Guitar Builder Project: “Blue Jay”
About a year ago I started to play guitar again. At that time I got myself a nice black Squier Deluxe Strat (named “Black Bess” by me), which is actually a good guitar for a very reasonable price.
Of course, once you start with this, you also begin to have an eye on other types of electric guitars. Maybe a Telecaster as second guitar? Or a Les Paul? A semi-acoustic would also be nice…
Finally I bumped into a guitar builder forum and warmed up to the idea to actually try and build a guitar myself. Not a complete guitar build – that would be too much trouble without a proper, fully equipped workshop – but from a guitar build set. That would still leave enough challenges and learning opportunities to begin with. Continue reading
Media Centers: Raspberry Pi vs. Apple TV
It is hard to oversee the Raspberry Pi community’s enthusiasm for the XBMC media center software: no less than three software distributions are available and there are endless forums, tutorials.
No surprise then that I had to try some of them (and decided to stay with Raspbmc) and this became a permanent feature of my TV setup.
There is, however, also an Apple TV in our household, so this is a good opportunity for a feature and usability shootout.