Archive for the 'Tech' Category

Last chance to get a Fon router for free

Wednesday, January 24th, 2007

One of the last chances to join the Fon Comunity for free ist through a PC-Welt offer. Mhh, hope to get a patched Firmware soon, to join freifunk too ;). This offer will ende on the 2nd Feb.

Using com dlls in .net

Tuesday, August 29th, 2006

This is mainly for me so i don’t forget. To use a old com dll for a .net project you can simply add the dll to references of the vs project. In the background a proxy assembly is generated with the required metadata to use the dll with the .net framework.
A useful scenario you want [...]

Hacking Ruby/Rails with more than an editor

Friday, August 4th, 2006

If you want a little bit more than an editor to hack your ruby. You should check out Ruby in Steel. A plugin for VS 2005. It supports Ruby and Rails projects with code folding, coloring, point and click error finding and debugging. The next iteration will offer intelliSense, but this will cost bucks. This [...]

Skype 1.5 with video for Mac

Wednesday, July 26th, 2006

Just in case you didn’t read it it elseware skype also releases a preview version of with video support beside the widly announced beta. I have to admit the internal webcame of the mb pro really rocks with the h.264 compressed videos.

Article about Procedural Synthesis

Wednesday, July 12th, 2006

I found an interesting article about the future potential of Procedural Synthesis for video games. It’s worth a look.

del.icio.us firefox plugin

Sunday, June 25th, 2006

I guess most of you have heard of del.icio.us, the social bookmarking service. Till now I didn’t used it much, cause I’m used to have my bookmarks available in the toolbar while surfing. Although some plugins existed for quite a while to make some functions of del.icio.us directly available, none of them offers a real [...]

Best Oblivion Mods - IMHO

Friday, June 16th, 2006

Since months I play oblivion. The best PC Game for years in my opinion. And thanks to a very active modder community, the fun will not cease to soon. Here are my 3 recommendations in no particular order for must have mods. Mainly to bring the visual already very appealing game more to the eye-candy [...]

Nant, Cruise Control .Net and the rest of the gang

Friday, May 19th, 2006

Time for a new post. After writing a while back about tools you can use as a single developer to enhance your work with the Visual Studio IDE, today I want to write about my experience with tools to optimise the build and integration process. The first thing is Nant, the .Net Version of Ant [...]

Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise 15 .Net Data Provider (ASE15 Data Provider)

Friday, March 10th, 2006

To ease the pain of those how tried to obtain the .Net Data Provider for the ASE15. I thought I might post it here so you don’t have to download the 400+ MB SDK from Sybase just to get this damn Data Provider.

A real Transformer

Monday, February 13th, 2006

This is so damn cool you have to see it, this robot turns from a car into a robot and back. Check out the video(requires flash).

Found on Robot-Fan via Slashdot.


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