Musings

Choose Words fail me: Stroke of insight (if you only follow one link in todays flow: follow this one) Fez 2D Plattform game with a difference. Wow! iPhone Future Apps 12 iPhone Apps of the near future - we are going to live in interesting times. Evernote is almost there in a lot of areas. I am sure, they are going to have an iPhone client too. A really cool application. I have a couple of invites left to give out. Leave a comment to request one. ...

Simplicity via Labnotes Lisp Interesting read about using Lisp in a large and complex Application

Don’t send Don’t use a method named send in your Rails Controllers. Trust me. Obsoletion Do you know the Hayes AT command set? What the difference between X-, Y- and Z-Modem is? (and which one rocks) Can you adjust the tracking on a VCR? Operate a rotary phone? Without dialing the dial? Yes? You my friend are a master of Obsolete Skills. Now go weep in the sweet memories.

Noise Ben Poole brings back musical memories to me: Art of Noise: Community Anbieter wissen zu wenig uber Communities Ganz erst gemeinte, wissenschaftliche Studie uber Web Communities, ihre Aufzucht und Pflege. Spannend! Ich denke immer noch, dass Hughs Ideen uber soziale Objekete sehr viel Wahrheitsgehalt haben.

Waiting at the airport in London for the flight back to Zurich. Had an interesting and enjoyable day with a really good meeting, a walk in beautiful Regent Park with my friend Michael and lovely Thai dinner. Been sifting through the iPhone SDK information and videos. Ideas swirling through my head… Random Links of interest If Version Control Systems were Airlines - so true Ruby Debug Cheat sheet - needed that recently while trying to figure out, why an integration test failed

Smoke on Japan via vowe Git Backup Using Git to backup directories: gibak. I couldn’t get the OCaml files compiled (but I didn’t try that hard) Apple iPhone SDK released Server down MS Word 2008 - got 2.5 Gigs? My friend Benno writes a book in MS Word 2008 - he’s not happy…