Seems that this year I might have the chance to travel a lot and I also planned to go to London. I hope that besides my business-trips I find some time to go to london this summer. I hope that video keeps my motivation a but higher: [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/2169237[/vimeo] Btw. I learned to play Daft Punk’s “Around the world on a guitar 11 years ago. It is actually the only thing I every learned on a guitar — maybe someone could borrow me a guitar for some days so that I can pratice again :D ... Read more

Mike Horn saw the Death Star Over San Francisco and he was able to spread it around the internet before the new emperor punished him for this nice artwork :D

Just found a good starter for today :P … old american Lady is complaining about raw salmon …on notalwaysright.com.

Today I tried to find a way to track the time of a shell-command and to log that runtime into a file. I was already aware of the **time **command which is a bash build-in. Due to that it passes its output directly to the user without using either stdout or stderr and therefore there’s no “easy” way to redirect the output directly into a file. But bash als provides subshells and in this case that’s how you can use the output :P (which is passed on stderr in this case). ... Read more

Wow check this out - Spreeblick one of Germanys most popular blogs had some kind of protest agains the governments internet filter some days ago. They asked their users to click on a germany-map and leave a comment to “vote” against the filter. Afterwards they published the XML-Data of this and Micheal Schieben published this very impressive visualization of the internet-protest . It was produced with processing (one of my early loves) and he also published the source-code … great work :) ... Read more

A friend of mine recommended this URL in regards to one topic which I’m currently working on: Designing Drop-Down Menus: Examples and Best Practices . This article about how to use Drop-Down menus within the navigation, including some DOs and some DONTs, is a very nice summary for anyone who creates designs with these elements. After I scanned that article, I found another one which will be my default answer in the future whenever clients or coworkers ask strange questions about features and designs: 9 Common Usability Mistakes In Web Design | How-To | Smashing Magazine. ... Read more

I just stumpled over this video while the piano in the room next to me played some strange ronan keating song… what a moment :D [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/2585249?pg=embed&sec=2585249[/vimeo]

There are lot’s of visualizations for soting algorithms - this pages provides all relevant informations including runtime complexity and extra space requirements etc - and a easy to memorize domain name ;) ~ http://www.sorting-algorithms.com

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7pPajOvQGo[/youtube]

These are two neat little commands to find the newest and oldest file within a folder and it’s subfolder: find . -type f -printf "%T@ %p \n" | sort -n -k 1,1 | awk '{print $2}' | tail -n 1 find . -type f -printf "%T@ %p \n" | sort -n -k 1,1 | awk '{print $2}' | head -n 1 If you’d like to know how old/young these files are try these two: find . ... Read more