Talks and Short Movies
Yet another collection of interesting talks: First, a quite old talk about exponential growth and how we often don’t understand its implications. The talk starts quite boring with simple math.…
Read moreOpera Speed Test
My favorite browser, Opera, is fast, extremely fast. Newest scientific methods are used to measure its speed 😉 World Record Speed Test: Ok, ok, the Chrome-guys game up first with…
Read moreFirst Aid Kit
I’ve finally bought First Aid Kit‘s debut album ‘The Big Black and The Blue’ and the EP ‘Drunken Trees’ after I’ve spend hours listening to their songs on YouTube. First…
Read moreFixing Youtube on Opera
Yesterday evening I spend some time watching videos on YouTube. Everything worked fine as expected. But suddenly I got this error: Not a single YouTube worked anymore. So I cleaned…
Read moreFixing the Font for Github Gists
I’ve switched to the Github Gist service for my code examples. It’s a great service: easy to use, the code is versioned and you can download it easily. However the…
Read moreGames Outside the Box, Analog Computers, Read-Write-Costs etc.
“Design Outside the Box” Amazing presentation about unexpected successful games, what they have in common and how games emerge into the real life. Watch it! Interesting videos from the 50’s,…
Read moreThe Way of the Whiteboard, Modern Hardware, Writing DSLs with LINQ and Component Relationships
The Way of the Whiteboard: Persuading with Pictures: A enlightening and wonderful talk about explaining stuff with pictures. The advices in this talk do not only apply to every area.…
Read moreMaven-Reference, Validation and Geek-Videos
I’ve stumbled over this Maven online book. It’s quite useful for everyone who’s maintaining Maven-builds. This post about “Magic” null argument testing describes how to implement an extremely elegant way…
Read moreDon’t Talk To The Police
A delighting talk why you should never, ever, under no circumstances should talk to the police. I think that’s very good advice. I’m wondering how this applies to swiss laws.…
Read moreRx-Framework, Lombok & Music For Everyone
There’s a new talk/interview about the Rx-framework for reactive programming on channel 9. Yes, it’s the third time I link talks about the same topic here (here is the first…
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