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Are you Hobbit enough to be a good programmer?

Lars Schenk — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 01:52:25 +0000

Google+ vs Facebook

Lars Schenk — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 12:26:54 +0000

Now that the world is seeing the fight “Google+ vs Facebook” I think it’s time to remember the outstanding speech from Eben Moglen. Not to forget:

“Don’t expect Google to be a competitor – that’s a plattform…”

Eben Moglen – Freedom in The Cloud

CakePHP, a visual history: 0 – 1.3.0

Lars Schenk — Fri, 07 May 2010 14:07:06 +0000

Graham Weldon made this fast-paced visual history of the CakePHP repository from 16th May 2005 up until close to the release a few days back for CakePHP 1.3.0. The result is nothing short of awesome.

See in HD and fullscreen!
Original blog post here.

Video: Node.js by Ryan Dahl

Lars Schenk — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:42:14 +0000

I recently read about “Node.js might be the most exciting single piece of software in the current JavaScript universe.” and “Node’s goal is to provide an easy way to build scalable network programs.” Sounds great. With this talk from Ryan Dahl, I’ve got a bigger picture:

Is Chromium OS the perfect netbook OS?

Lars Schenk — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:45:34 +0000

After Googles launch of their own programming language “go” (which looks like a polished c++ meets pyhton) the next big thing is Googles attempt to re-think what operating systems (targeting netbooks) should be: Google Chromium OS. I don’t yet follow the idea of no native apps “on the desktop”. So I’m exited about Apple’s plan for this netbook (or tablet-) market. As a developer I welcome every platform that allows users to access webapps in a more convenience way. And this is pretty much the best attempt for the old idea of a “network only computer”: Network Computer Reloaded.

The Animated Google Story

Lars Schenk — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:56:46 +0000

A quick look back at the Google story over the last 11 years. From Stanford to Mountain View and around the world, featuring many different products, starting with BackRub (Search) up to Google Wave, StreetView and Chrome.

Social Media Revolution (updated)

Lars Schenk — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:43:20 +0000

Is social media a fad? Or is it the biggest shift since the Industrial Revolution?

This is a refresh of the original Social Media Revolution with updated statistics and images. Created by author Erik Qualman and based on the #1 Best Selling book Socialnomics.

Social Media Revolution 2 (Refresh) from Erik Qualman on Vimeo.

Cloud Computing – DLD09

Lars Schenk — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 19:59:20 +0000

If I had to convince a non technical person about Cloud Computing, I would show him this video.

I really enjoyed listening to Dr. Werner Vogels. Dr. Vogels is Vice President & Chief Technology Officer at Amazon.com where he is responsible for driving the company’s technology vision, which is to continuously enhance the innovation on behalf of Amazon’s customers at a global scale.
This vision is why I have moved to EC2/S3 in 2007. I guess, I’ve finally become an Amazon AWS fan boy.

Even if audio is a bit out of sync, it’s worth to listening this long session.
As a developer from the bottom of my heart I like especially this quote: “There is no value in being a system administrator. You do not build a better product by being a better server maintainer.” This is so true, but I wonder how EC2 can free me from typical administration tasks. I still have to maintain my virtual server instances with the whole LAMP stack. Plus I have to think about how to scale horizontally (what to do when I need more virtual server instances).
In contradiction to Amzon’s EC2, Google’s AppEngine promises to free me from doing the admin tasks (no OS/LAMP Stack to maintain) and to solve the scale problem (no Database Replication to set up). AppEngine scales out of the box – the downside is, that it offers a very limited runtime just for you app.
True, a single EC2 instance doesn’t scale out of the box but it also doesn’t limit you in doing what you want to do on your virtual server. With EC2 I have to solve the scaling on my own. For this price I got more freedom.
I’m exited to use and learn about EC2/S3/Storefront each day but I also hope that Google’s AppEngine will offer a wider range of runtime environments in the future. t’s an interesting Cloud-Year 2009! #buzzword

So funktioniert der Apple Automator

Lars Schenk — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:26:49 +0000

Der Automator in OS X ist ein sehr nützliches Tool zum automatisieren von Routineaufgaben. Komplexe Arbeitsabläufe lassen sich zum wiederholten Anwenden zusammenstellen. Viele Anwendungen wie Finder, iTunes, Safari, iPhoto, Mail, iCal usw. lassen sich sehr leicht über den Automator nutzen so dass i.d.R. nicht einmal mehr eine einfache Scriptsprache wie z.b. AppleScript erforderlich ist um wiederkehrende Aufgaben in einer Art Minianwendung zusammenzufassen.

Ich glaube viele Apple Benutzer kennen das Tool aber nicht oder können vielleicht nicht viel damit anfangen. Vielleicht ändert sich das nun, denn Lars Blumberg erläutert in seinem wunderschön gemachten Screencast sehr anschaulich die Bedienung und Funktionsweise des Apple Automators. Da dieses Video im Rahmen eines Seminars “End user programming” entstanden ist, geht Lars Blumberg zu Beginn auf das Pipe-Konzept ein auf dem der Automator beruht, bevor ein Beispiel erläutert wird.

Im dritten Teil des Screencasts wird die Programmierung einer eigenen Erweiterung (Action) für den Automator mit Xcode demonstriert. Alle Schritte sind in dem liebevoll gemachtem Video ausführlich dokumentiert, so dass ich hoffe dass Anwender und Scripter neugierig gemacht werden sich einmal etwas ausführlicher mit Apples Automator auseinander zu setzen.

OMG this is so funny, I need to share this.

Lars Schenk — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:00:12 +0000

Watch White & Nerdy in HD from waymoby on Vimeo.