The Swiss Airlines Miles & More loyalty program offers several credit card bundles through a special website. The promise is that these cards allow you to collect frequent flyer miles and provide interesting bonuses to you. I got intrigued and thought: Let’s investigate a bit.
My interest was piqued as these cards have an interesting side [...]
This year, I attended XP Days Benelux for the first time, and I want to share some of the insights and impressions I got from this event. To tell the truth, I have not been at any XP Days-Events before, and my mind was blown away. This was not what I expected. It was much, [...]
In this article, we take a look at the roles of management and product ownership in university research.
There was recently not so long ago a discussion at InfoQ, triggered by an opinion piece by Amr Elssamadisy. Michael Hedgpeth suggests that the bad [...]
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I found this interesting article this morning. I need to read up on Reed-Solomon codes.
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Slashdot had a post up about an essay by Matthew Paul Thomas. You can read it here.
Its point is that while the open source model of software development is able to achieve good code quality by opening up all sources & letting others fix and build on your previous work, the model breaks [...]
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Heute Morgen im 34ger-Bus. Ich steige ein, mache gerade noch die Email-Applikation auf meinem iPhone zu, und will es gerade wegstecken.
Mann im Bus: “iPod oder iPhone?”
Ich (perplex): “iPhone.”
Er: “Hier, setz dich neben mich! (rückt zur Seite) Ich hab nämlich auch eins, willst Du’s sehen?”
Nein, wollte ich nicht, ich glaub’s ihm [...]
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… oder so ähnlich.
Seit heute gehören wir nicht mehr zum aus-Amerika-importierenden Backwater, sondern dürfen unsere iPhones ganz normal im Laden kaufen, bei Swisscom und Orange vorerst.
Ich will ja nicht immer nur meckern, aber wenn man schon heftig den Hype um das iPhone 3G mit ganzseitigen Anzeigen mitanfacht, sollte man vielleicht [...]
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Today, Google announces the open-sourcing of their Protocol Buffers project. From a first glance, it seems to be a high-performance way to exchange deep data structures between different services (it seems Google has a need for that — they claim that their production servers constantly run at full capacity). XML parsing [...]
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My handwriting sucks. That’s why I use a keyboard whenever I need to make sure that what I write down is actually read/write. Still, I am very fond of good design, and of good typefaces.
The man in blue is wondering about the typeface designers themselves: “There’s great power in a typeface, [...]
I recently stumbled upon a neat little gadget for blogging called Zemanta. This product of a Slovenian start-up company can either be used as an extension to either Firefox or Internet Explorer, or can be installed server-side, if you host your own blog. What it does is analyze the text you write while you blog, [...]