February 2012
4 posts
“I’m no fan of XML either. It seems overused in many Java systems. I like...”
– http://blog.eisele.net/2012/02/heroes-of-java-ward-cunningham.html
Rebels, may the force be with you. Always. →
Adventures in Design Thinking class →
The Bootcamp Bootleg is more of a cook book than a text book, and more of a constant work-in-progress than a polished and permanent piece.
January 2012
2 posts
Clausewitz: Nebel des Krieges
I thought it might be interesting to talk about how the U.S. Marines are trained to make decisions in the fog of war. They call it the 70% solution.
If you have 70% of the information you’d like to have
If you’ve done 70% of the analysis that you think is required
And feel 70% confident that you are right, then get on with it
The Marine Corp teaches their young officers that a well-reasoned...
Startup Marketing Lessons Learned by Leo →
November 2011
1 post
“We will find a way. Or make one.”
– Hannibal Barca, 247 BC – 182 BC
October 2011
4 posts
“SendGrid: Free or Bronze accounts are tiered IP groups based on reputation, so...”
– http://mechanicalbee.com/2011/sendgrid_heroku_addon.html
“Thank you, Steve!”
“Entrepreneurs: The End Is Near. Refinance.”
– http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2011/09/28/entrepreneurs-the-end-is-near-refinance/
September 2011
5 posts
“Give someone a program, and you’ll frustrate them for a day. Teach someone to...”
“Aus dem Vorbeschleuniger (SPS) des Large Hadron Colliders werden über...”
– http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/CERN-erlaeutert-das-Neutrino-Experiment-1349436.html
In unserer Reihe: Wir begrüssen den Papst
Ein FSM-Poster zum herunterladen, bestehend aus 24 DIN-A4 Seiten zum leichten selber ausdrucken (Ca. 1,30m x 70 cm). Mit Paketband auf der Rückseite verstärken und - zur Begrüßung aufhängen.
Church of the flying Spaghetti Monster Poster print-it-yourself.
Thanks to BlockPosters.com.
Private equity investors are financial engineers
A few quotes from this nice article: The tricks investors use against us
Private Equity investors are foremost rewarded for protecting their fund’s capital.
We are more interested in good low-risk businesses, than great high-risk businesses.
What we won’t mention is that very few of the people we deal with represent good, solid, low-risk businesses willing to sell equity at below market...
July 2011
1 post
June 2011
2 posts
Coworking Space in Freiburg
Gerade haben wir den ersten Coworking Space in Freiburg aus dem Boden gestampft: Bitte hier entlang: Coworking Freiburg
Egal ob längerfristige Bürogemeinschaft oder tageweise Miete. Für kleines Geld direkt in der Freiburger Altstadt arbeiten und leben - anschauen!
Discotel Smart with an iPhone/iPad
Just switched from T-Mobile to DiscoTel for my mobile communication needs. They are offering an interesting package:
Vodafone network
7,5 Cent per minute / short message
Great Data-Packages (200 MB or 1 GB full HSUPA speed)
and best of all:
Tethering on the iPhone works
Visual Voicemail works as well
May 2011
4 posts
“SQLite3::SQLException: cannot rollback - no transaction is active”
– This nearly killed me. Check if you also have an attribute called ‘hash’ - if so rename it and you are golden.
NOTE: Gem::Specification# default_executable = is...
To get rid of this warning after updating RubyGems, and you are lucky enough to run RVM, use this:
rvm rubygems current
This will get rid of theses depreciation warnings until the gems you are using are updated.
Multiple Outgoing Email Addresses on your iPad or...
It is an obvious oversight/triage that iOS out of the box does not support multiple email addresses to send from. My usage scenario is as follows:
Have one mobile.me mailbox with it’s superior push feature and the ability to search through mail while on the go. Because I am working on a handful of projects in parallel I use a few ‘real’ (not reply-to or mobile.me aliases)...
March 2011
3 posts
Linux on iOS devices as app
For developing software based on a Linux/BSD stack on the go, it would be very neat to have an app-encapsulated light Linux or BSD running in userland on e.g. the iPad. Linux/BSD would simply expose an SSH- and http-port (or more) to other apps on the iDevice.
This way you could work on and test code on the go in your favourite stack (LAMP, Rails, Django…) without relying on a...
Solved: Kindle for PC error "Registration timed...
No need to work with an older installer, 1.4.1 just works fine. What got it working for me was:
Go to ‘Internet Options’, ‘Advanced’-Tab and disable ‘Check for revoked certificates’ or something similar. It’s way down in the list, in the ‘Security’ group.
Now just close and re-open Kindle for PC, and register your Reader. Voilá!
January 2011
4 posts
“Dass der Zweck der Freiheit ist, die Möglichkeit von Entwicklungen zu schaffen,...”
– Friedrich August von Hayek
Reasons Tumblr went down →
Managing Nerds →
Insight in the inner workings of a nerd. Nerd as someone who is driven by the need to fully understand things.
“A good programmer working intensively on his own code can hold it in his mind...”
– http://paulgraham.com/head.html
December 2010
7 posts
“The primary technical benefit brought by Canonical’s involvement in building...”
– Official Ubuntu Images for Amazon EC2 from Canonical - Alestic.com
Feed my kindle - with Instapaper.com
I found two services to feed my kindle with stuff that Amazon doesn’t offer: Instapaper.com and kindlefeeder.com
These services are somewhat different in scope, mostly kindlefeeder being an automated feed pusher to the kindle (at least in the premium version) and Instantpaper being the famous manual multi-platform extended bookmarking and visual-spam reducer it is.
I can wholeheartedly...
Tablets - a Paul Graham Essay →
The advantages of doing things in software on a single device are so great that everything that can get turned into software will. So for the next couple years, a good recipe for startups will be to look around you for things that people haven’t realized yet can be made unnecessary by a tablet app.
A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace →
Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.
Pure genius - coming-soon intro →
Great re-framing! →
All of the computers on Ebay are mine. In fact, everything on Ebay is already mine. All of those things are just in long term storage that I pay nothing for. Storage is free.
November 2010
3 posts
“It’s not a good idea to take a forecast from someone wearing a tie. If possible,...”
– Thought Fuse - by Sheraan - A blog on entrepreneurship, life hacks and big ideas.
What I’ve Learned, By Skype’s Niklas Zennstrom →
That’s a good one!
October 2010
9 posts
“Dear Mr Schlenkhoff,
Thank you for your email.
We regret to inform you that...”
– Email exchange with the Economist customer support. What a crap, I am paying a premium over the standard subscription and the other online benefits are not included??
Great new kindle features coming...
First, we are making Kindle newspapers and magazines readable on our free Kindle apps, so you can always read Kindle periodicals even if you don’t have your Kindle with you or don’t yet own a Kindle. In the coming weeks, many newspapers and magazines will be available on our Kindle apps for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch, and then we’ll be adding this functionality to Kindle for...
Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science - Magazine... →
HasWifi - The Inflight Wifi Resource →
“javascript:alert(“WebSockets are ” + (window.WebSocket ?...”
– JimBergman.net » Test your web browser for Web Socket support
Pusher - Realtime client push powered by HTML5... →
Website Monitoring and Load Testing - In The Cloud... →
Apple's segmentation strategy, and the folly of... →
Great study on posterchild-market segmentation by AAPL.
September 2010
18 posts
There is no Plan B: why the IPv4-to-IPv6... →
Great post to understand the delicacies of the IPv4 to IPv6 transition.