Tag Archives: geekness

Oh what a night!

roughly 7 p.m. Returning to my hotel after the first day at the WebTech. Trying to get some sleep, but it just won’t work. I’ll never be able to fall asleep before midnight, I guess…

11:30 p.m. Getting up again, taking a shower, preparing myself for the night.

00:30 a.m. Taxi ride from Mainz to Darmstadt, where the headquarters of the “Deutsche Telekom” are. The taxi driver is a little weird and stinky, but friendly in general.

01:00 – 06:00 a.m. Assisting with the launch of the software platform my company has been working on for the past few months.

06:00 – 06:30 a.m. Taxi ride back to Mainz – Friendly, but weird and stinky driver…

07:00 a.m. Taking a shower and trying to fall asleep as fast as possible.

08:00 a.m. Getting up again after not having slept at all.

08:27 a.m. Rushing down to grab something to eat before the bus back to the conference comes.

08:38 a.m. Leaving the breakfast lounge / Running to the bus station.

09.00 a.m. Already at the first talk of the day πŸ™‚

WebTech 2010

I’m attending the WebTech 2010 in Mainz – it’s a hybrid conference together with the international PHP conference taking place in the nice Rheingoldhalle right next to the Rhein river. Oh my… So many geeks in one place! And almost no women here! (and those few that are here… well, you know…)

Anyways, I’m looking forward to another two and a half days of interesting talks and new insights to technology and the software industry in general.

PS: I did not forget about the pics of my appartment, it’s just that I couldn’t find the time by now… (and, to be honest, not so much progress has been made since my last post on that topic…)

Nice quote

Always code as if the person who ends up maintaining your code is a violent psychopath who knows where you live.

– from “Code for the Maintainer”

WPTouch rocks!

As some of you might know, I installed the WPTouch plugin to make the site easier to read on mobile phones. While this is awesome enough to praise it, it now has a very cool feature that allows people to send me free live messages to my phone directly from my site 😎 So if you happen to be reading this from a mobile phone, you can click on the “Message” button at the top to get to a form for sending me instant messages:

Java 4-ever

This video is truly awesome :mrgreen:

I’m not a PHD

… but this is hilarious:

taken from http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1329

Infinite text playground

http://yourworldoftext.com/defaude

You can type anywhere you like on this endless canvas. To move around in space, you can simply click and drag to move the whole canvas. I know it serves absolutely no purpose and is completely pointless, but I think it’s really funny to toy around with 😎

TLDR :)

http://www.skorks.com/2010/05/how-to-be-a-real-elite-programmer-and-make-sure-everybody-knows-it/

Cool mini-description on how GitHub works

Cool guy, cool story, cool script (it features a Konami code and unicorns!), cool way to communicate the way GitHub works: http://ericharrison.info/2010/05/28/github-is-the-best-thing-ever/

Geek-jewel

Now this is some creative data mining:

http://www.phoboslab.org/log/2010/05/9-years-of-sleep