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 [...]
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 [...]
Ask a scrum practitioner what the right size for a scrum team is, and he’s likely to tell you “7, plus minus 2″, the canonical Scrum answer. Here, I want to consider lower limits of Scrum teams and how to overcome them.
This seemingly magical size of teams of between 5 and 9 members being able [...]
Ein Bild sagt mehr als 1000 Worte. Ein Bild kann aber auch eine Aussage und ihr Gegenteil illustrieren. So zum Beispiel heute zeitgleich bei der Basler Zeitung online und dem Spiegel online:
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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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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, [...]
Really. Your safety is our number one concern. Therefore, may we ask you for your own safety and that of your fellow travelers to only take one drink at a time? And for your own comfort to clean up your mess after use? And while you’re at it, please fill out this self check-in form, [...]
This weekend, I planned to do some serious cooking. Ever since we had seen the Disney/Pixar movie Ratatouille, we were aching for some good ratatouille. Funny actually, that you can get hungry from watching CG imagery of food cooked by rats. But then, I found out that star-studded, best-of-America cook Thomas Keller from The French [...]
Die letzten 2 Tage war ich in Verona an einer Konferenz eingeladen, um unsere Arbeit an Inhibitoren des Dengue-Virus zu präsentieren.
Jetzt weiss ich endlich auch, wie man “Orata” übersetzt, denn von diesem Fisch gab’s reichlich … Daurade royale, Goldbrasse, oder sogar gilthead seabreem, das geht mir mittlerweile fast so leicht über die Lippen, wie der [...]
Seen at a conference:
Hardcore geek with his laptop, a recent model, running Linux with the Gnome desktop.
Only one console window, maximized, to fill the whole screen black background and light grey fonts, running vi and mc.
Some things are just timeless.