What else? Hmm, as I already mentioned, I’m trying to work my way through the programming I’ve got to do before being able to write my thesis on that software. Even though it’s frustrating from time to time because Ruby on Rails is always-evolving and many features needed for your application which you spent hours or even days on implementing tend to pop up as a new feature in the next Rails release, it’s also fun and interesting to play with that new feel programming. Completely different approaches, more focus on the actual application and not on the tools and frameworks you need for it etc. *sigh* Wish I would’ve started with that a lot earlier 😉
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Flu, grades, cold, back on the track (rails) etc.
Posted by defaude
on February 17, 2009
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Well, well… So much has been going on and I don’t really know where to start. Hmm… Might be because I’ve not been writing so much lately 😉
First of all, I got my grades. Okay, I was complaining and whyning a lot and to be honest, I was seriously not expecting too much. I don’t know how but I passed all exams and the grades are quite okay, actually! Yaay! 😀 So now, I can fully conentrate on the upcoming last semester with its four exams and, of course, my thesis. Wish me luck with all that!
But just as the last test was done and my stress-level fell I caught a mean flu which took me down for roughly a week already. I’ve still not fully recovered yet but it looks like it’s going to be over in one or two days. This is like so typical by the way: Just when the time’s here for me to relax, enjoy parties with friends, go to the gym on a more regular basis again etc. I get sick! D’oh!
Alright, what’s next? I’ve been using the time I had to stay at home and in bed to increase my Ruby on Rails knowledge. So it might have had a positive side, too. 😉 This is the language / the framework I’ll build my thesis on and I should finally start again to work on that for I’ve not been doing anything there since January…
Oh and my dear sister will be coming home from Barcelona for a couple of days this week! She’ll have her viva voce – wow! Then we’re going to have another Dr. in the family 🙂
“Ein Fest…” or having fun at the Hofbräuhaus
Posted by defaude
on February 7, 2009
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After having had our last exam, some friends and I went to the always-funny infamous Hofbräuhaus for lots of beer, good food and just having a good time (well, for me there was no beer included, of course 😉 ) And because I just desperately wanted to test the new iMovie, I just had to create a movie with some stupid pix 😀
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Update: Yes, the video quality is quite bad. There should be, however, a “Display HQ video” link to the top-right of the video. If you click this directly after going to that page, the picture quality improves a lot. It’s still far from being perfect, but hey, who’s perfect 😉
It’s over. Eventually…
Posted by defaude
on February 5, 2009
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Had my last exam in this semester and it was SHIT. Wow, now the exam-season is over and I don’t even feel a little tiny bit relieved! 🙁
Isogashii / Busy
Posted by defaude
on January 18, 2009
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Well, well… It’s been quite a long time since my last entry here. Sorry ’bout that. I’ve just been so freakin’ busy ever since my return from Japan. Final exams for this semester are closing in and I should have been studying instead of going to Tokyo but in my opinion, Tokyo was the way smarter choice 😉
First of all, I want to present some pictures of my second trip to Japan, however, I did not take so many due to my own stupidity… As you might have read, I’ve lost my small pocket camera, so I packed the bigger one into my luggage. Alright. Got everything with me: the cam, lens protector, SDHC card, battery… d’oh! forgot the battery! So the only option for me to get at least a few pix was to buy a new battery at my favourite electronics store, Yodobashi Camera in Shinjuku…
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I was given the chance to enjoy the nice Tokyo winter, the great food and a lot of fun with many friends. It was a great week and I want to thank everyone who could find some time to see me! Hope to see you again soon 😉 Oh and Ayumi, he LOVES the shoes 😀
So what did I do after coming back? Hmm not so many things, actually. Since my final exams for this semester are starting in one week already, I’m basically doing nothing but studying at the moment. Well, at least two pleasant things happened to me: My mom found my beloved Pentax camera and I finally got my new computer *yaaay* but I don’t really have the time to play with my new / old toys at the moment so this will have to wait until February 😉
Mac OS Leopard + VMWare Fusion + Kubuntu 8.04 + Kdevelop
Posted by defaude
on December 19, 2008
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Phew, not too easy to get this configuration running but in the end I managed (with a little help from my friends) to get it done. For several quite pointless study tasks belonging to our “Operating systems” class, I had to get a pure Linux (most likely Debian) system running on which I’m supposed to work in the crappy KDevelop IDE. I’ll not dive into complaining about that should-be-generic-and-platform-independent course which is in fact nothing more but YALAPC (yet another Linux and programming C++) class… Duh! It’s not like we all heard that stuff already before. At least three times. Well, at least three times more than we heard that Barack Obama was elected president and that carbon dioxide might not be too good for our globe’s health…
Well, whatever. It’s doing what it’s supposed to do and I might have a chance of succeeding in this course 😉 Just in case people ask what I’m dealing with all the time 😀
Onkel: Take a look!
Posted by defaude
on August 30, 2008
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As I mentioned in my German blog, I’m going to be uncle this fall! I can’t – not even to the slightest bit – express with words how happy and excited I am about this. 😀 My sister will be giving birth to my very first niece in the next few days and I want to use this opportunity to trackback to the new blog of Andrea and Patrick, the proud almost-parents. This blog is written in German, so hontouni doumo sumimasen to all my non-German readers (who are Japanese most likely 🙂 )
Studienbeiträge
Posted by defaude
on July 12, 2008
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*ächz* und schon bin ich wieder mal 465,- Euro ärmer…