Archive for October, 2008

Alle Jahre wieder…

…Sssssssschneeeeee !

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Politischer Kampf als Wellnessprogramm

“Politischer Kampf als Wellnessprogramm” – was für ein treffender Titel vom dradio für all diese demokratiefeindlichen Kämpfer der vermeindlichen guten Sache: Gegen “Rechts”! Aktuelles Glanzstück: www.$randgruppen-auslachen.de. Diesmal aber nicht so wie vor 75 Jahren: Diesmal sind die Nazis nämlich selbst die Zielscheibe. Was es bringt? Wohl nix, außer noch eine Stufe tiefer in der Spirale [...]

Sunday, October 26th, 2008

Google’s Android and the gilded cage

I just agree with laforge and his Android posting.
Thus, Android so far was little more to me than yet-another-J2ME. Some sandbox virtual machine environment where people can write UI apps for. In other words: Nothing that gets me excited at all. I want a openness where I can touch and twist the [...]

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

The History of .NET

Slashdot posted an interessting interview with Anders Hejlsberg, Microsoft’s leader of C# development, writer of the Turbo Pascal system, and lead architect on the Delphi language. He reveals the history behind C# and what the future holds for C# 4.0.
There is also a podcast interview from May 2008 with Anders Hejlsberg by Software Engineering Radio.

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

Networking for Researchers: Scholarz.net

Yes, the research buisness can be a really strange milieu
Good to see that some old colleagues try to change this situation by creating some mixture of a social network for researchers, source/bibtex management and knowledge management. It’s called Scholarz (their blog) and is a spin-off of the project “Scientific Work in the Web 2.0″ [...]

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008