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Technology radar, fall 2011 edition
Rising stars: iOS Development The iphone is still hot, the iPad is hot and established by now, plus now the mac app store gets Joe Sixpack buying applications on the mac. What’s news is that due to the success of the iphone, even large conservative companies are really starting to realize they need to “do…
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Windows switcher’s guide to Mac OS X
One way to measure the return of the Mac: the rising number of friends who have either bought macs, or are toying with the idea of getting one, and are now pestering me with their switcher questions giving me an opportunity to talk about the mac way of doing things. So here’s my short list…
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Don’t like Google’s redesign? Greasemonkey to the rescue
So Google redesigned their search homepage, to include a black highlight bar for their other service offerings on top of the page. I think it looks pretty good, but my girlfriend, who is a more visual person than I am, and has better aesthetic sense too, absolutely hated the fact that she was greeted by…
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Couchsurfer’s guide to Munich
After living in Munich for a few years, I’ve collected quite a few favorite spots in Munich. And since I host couchsurfers pretty frequently, I’ve finally made the effort to put together a little booklet collecting some personal recommendations for things to eat, do and see in Munich. With, so far, quite the emphasis on…
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Every book I read in 2010: 46 Mini-reviews
(Inspired by http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/books2010 ) Tech: Stefan Tilkov: REST und HTTP I was introduced to REST in a talk that the author gave at the local Java user group, and was really impressed by the concise, logical and entetaining way in which he presented the REST concept, and decided to get the book to go further.…
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Amazon Kindle review
I’ve been using a kindle for most of my reading for the last 4 months, and since the kindle is still kind of early-adopterish in Germany, thought it might be of interest to do a full review. The kindle device Form factor With the third version, the kindle finally doesn’t look goofy anymore, and became…
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Amazon almost learns from Apple
— inspired by my new favorite blog, littlebigdetails.com — In a lot of ways, Amazon’d kindle feels like an Apple product: thin, lightweight, easy to use. And yet in a lot of others, its early adopter / geek toy nature still shines through. Case in point: The changes to the status line in the latest…
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Martin Odersky’s Scala talk in Munich
TNG, a Munich-based consulting company, had a Scala training this week by Martin Odersky himself, and was generous enough to also host a free talk by Odersky about Scala. Of course, I couldn’t pass up my first opportunity to meet a language inventor in person. Odersky’s talk was one of the rare events where you…
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Jan 2011 GTUG Munich meeting
Last thursday saw the first GTUGMUC event of the year, thanks to the largesse of Google marketing once again held at the cafeteria of the local google offices, with pizza and drinks generously provided, and once again to a full house of several dozen developers crammed into the room. First speaker was Robert “Sparky” Rhode,…
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Try any language in your browser
Pretty much any new language has an online interpreter these days, so you can try it without even having to install anything. For future reference, I collected all the links here: Clojure http://tryclj.licenser.net/ Scala http://www.simplyscala.com/ Python http://try-python.mired.org/ (or http://trypython.org , but that one needs Silverlight) Ruby http://tryruby.org/ Go http://golang.org/ Erlang http://www.tryerlang.org/ Groovy http://groovyconsole.appspot.com/ Lua http://www.lua.org/demo.html…
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