musings

I have been using my mobile phones as a modem for the Mac Power/MacBook quite some time now with mixed success. While the different Nokia phone I used (Commuicator 9500, 9300 and the E61) generally work fine, they regularly just crash or drop the connection - sometime requiring a reboot of the phone. And, while I’m online via the phone, I can’t be reached - which sometimes is difficult. So - after seeint that Swisscom Mobile has PC Express cards that supposedly work on my MacBook Pro, I decided to try that. ...

While going through my spam folder, I happened upon this gem: I find it sad, that the off-shoring country no 1 is trying to off-shore their work… At least, from what I’ve heard, the west is paying the east for offshored work. Doesn’t seem, like this guy has heard of that concept… Technorati Tags: offshoring, outsourcing

Next week, rails-konferenz.de is taking place in Frankfurt, Germany on Friday, 22nd of June. I will be there and present on “Working offline” using Joyent Slingshot. It’s going to be my second appearance at Rails-Konferenz, and I’m very much looking forward to being there. Be sure to say Hi, if you are there too. Technorati Tags: joyent, presenting, rails, rails-konferenz, slingshot

talking virtually While most of the added value of a conference is coming from the face to face meetings with a bunch of different people, the tech-crowd can do amazing things when given WiFi and some tools. I witnessed this power the first time at reboot 7.0 when spontaneous collaboration emerged. I’d like to give something to the reboot crowd - an experiment in chatting. chat.invisible.ch is a chat system without rooms, but with tags - where discussions can focus and defocus - not in rooms, but in connected ideas. ...

Today, Tweakfest 2007 starts. Steve ‘Woz’ Wozniak will be holding a keynote, and the rest of the festival program looks really exciting! I’m happy to provide a little piece of the Tweakfest Puzzle with flow@tweakfest, a backchannel application that will collect users, visitors, spectators feedback and be projected next to the presentations. While I have been doing quite a few Ruby On Rails applications over the last year, I always had the luxury of working on in-house solutions. ...

I’m back from vacations in egypt. It wasn’t quite the vacation we planned, and due to various illnesses, I got to spend more time than I would have liked in an egyptian hospital, caring for my 7 year old daughter. But we made it back, and caught a lot of sun-rays. I have been reading extensively during the vacation, and I’d like to share some of the books I read and my thoughts on them: ...