Archive for 2008/06

  • Kleines Twitter-Update

    Ein kleines Update bezüglich der Österreichischen Twitter Top 100: Da Twitter.com derzeit mehr oder weniger offline ist, habe ich die Zeit genutzt, um das Backend umzuschreiben. Die Arbeiten an dieser Front gehen recht gut voran, weshalb ihr vielleicht noch diese Woche ein paar Änderungen sehen werdet. Sichtbar sind hier vor allem die Änderungen am Frontend, wo eine Ansicht pro Benutzer dazukommt, durch die ihr einfach nachvollziehen könnt, wann euer Profil zuletzt gescannt worden ist.

    An dieser Stelle an die Jungs von Pocoo.org: Euer WSGI-Toolkit Werkzeug ist echt klasse :-)

    Btw.: Für alle HP-Benutzer unter euch: Scheinbar ist HP-Österreich jetzt auch auf Twitter, womit sie die Meldungen der lokalen Presseabteilung direkter unter die Leute bringen wollen.

    2008/06/09 at 09:23:33

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  • GitHub needs HTTP cloning support

    One of the big disadvantages that GitHub has over for instance Gitorious is that there is no way to clone a repository over HTTP. The service is currently limited to cloning via git:// which is quite a problem if you're living behind for instance a corporate firewall.

    There already is a ticket associated with this problem on GitHub's Lighthouseapp project page, where defunct wrote:

    I'm going to close this until more people ask for it. We plan to start keep track of clone stats so git-daemon is actually preferable.

    So please everyone, vote for this ticket.

    2008/06/10 at 10:57:56

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  • Metal Gear Retrospective

    GameTrailers did it again: Release a simply great series of retrospective features and in this case, about the Metal Gear franchise thus far. In 5 episodes the viewer gets to know all the MG games including not only the relatively recent and well known (thanks to the Playstation) "Solid" games, but also the original games as well as portable episodes like Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops and one of my personal favorites: The AC!D series (1, 2).

    But be warned: Most of the videos aren't really what you'd call spoiler-free (perhaps except for the Portable Ops one).

    If you think about getting Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots and haven't played all the MG-games, then this might be something for you. It definitely convinced me to get a copy of Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops (and the expansion pack for this game) today. Let's see if I can finish at least the original game before the Euro2008 ends (which is when I plan to get a new TV and MGS4 to inaugurate the new HDness) ;-)

    2008/06/12 at 00:14:23

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  • Neue Twitterstats für Österreich online

    So, neue Twitter-Statistiken für Österreich sind jetzt online :-) Neben einer einfachen Auflistung der Top 100 Twitterer in Österreich könnt ihr euch nun auch die hinteren Ränge ansehen. Zudem gibt es jetzt für jeden erfassten Benutzer eine eigene kleine Seite, durch die ihr schnell herausfinden könnt, wie aktuell eure Statistik und euer Rang ist und was sich seit dem letzten Mal verändert hat.

    Bei Fragen und Wünschen, einfach hier kommentieren oder via Twitter an @zerok oder via Pownce :-)

    Für diejenigen die's interessiert: Das neue System verwendet ...

    Viel Spass :-)

    2008/06/14 at 12:39:15

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  • Rumor: Team Ninja leaving Tecmo

    Something smelt quite fishy when news broke that Tomonobu Itagaki left his long-time employer Tecmo and in the same move sued the company for not paying out bonuses for completed games. Was he the only one affected or what?! Now 1UP ran a story that basically said: No, he wasn't the only one and ...

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    2008/06/16 at 19:44:51

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  • Point'n click vs. DSLR - 1:0

    I love my D50, I really do. But recently I often thought about still getting once again a small and cheap point and click camera (perhaps the now cheap-as-dirt Panasonic Lumix TZ3) because I could always carry it around with me; at work, on my way to work, back home from work ... you get the picture.

    Photo on GizmodoToday Gizmodo brought a story that mentioned another valid reason to often have a camera at hand: Being able to take a picture of a friggin tornado close to ripping apart my farm.

    "Priorities", people! Photo ... life ... photo ... life ... photo! That said, this is definitely one of the coolest pictures I've seen of a tornado to date.

    I don't intend to take photos in life-threatening situations but instead set a quite high nice-level on saving my hide. Still, for other situations a small point and click would definitely come in handy. Does anyone of you perhaps have any recommendations? So far I'm quite in favor of the above mentioned TZ3 since my father has the same and is quite happy with it so far (nearly a year old by now). On the other hand, I'd like to give Canon a try, but don't want to spend more than 250EUR. Any ideas?

    2008/06/16 at 20:09:05

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  • Finally a Fire Eagle Invite

    I guess there is now a new wave of invites for Yahoo's location data dispatcher Fire Eagle out, because I finally received an invite tonight, 3 months after the first wave hit.

    For those of you who haven't heard yet of this service (which is not all that surprising considering how low the buzz around this service has been so far), Fire Eagle tries to offer a unified architecture for sharing your current location with web applications and web sites.

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    2008/06/16 at 23:38:07

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  • Syntax Highlighting in Markdown with Pygments

    If you want to get syntax highlighting using Pygments in Markdown texts, you have more or less 2 options. For one you can work on the HTML output of the Markdown2HTML converter of your choice, or you can try extending Markdown to offer special syntax for stuff you want to pass over to Pygments.

    A good idea if you want to go the first route is the use of some kind of HTML parsing library like BeautifulSoup as shown in this snippet and this article.

    This post will focus on the 2nd approach, though, since it is a bit cleaner :-)

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    2008/06/18 at 23:20:19

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  • What about Del.icio.us?

    Given the recent news of Joshua Schachter leaving Yahoo what future does del.icio.us really have? The last real life-sign (besides some plugins or module or various browsers) was in September last year when they showed a preview of the next generation engine built around Symfony and honestly: There wasn't anything to blow you away in this preview; no really new features, just a re-design.

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    2008/06/20 at 11:06:10

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  • Morgen Photowalk in Wien

    DSC_0652.JPGMorgen in der Früh geht's ab Richtung Wien zum ersten Photowalk in der Bundeshauptstadt. Treffpunkt ist um 14:00 beim Schottenring - Straßenbahnhaltestelle 31 und das Thema ist frei. Jetzt bleibt nur noch zu hoffen, dass das Wetter durchhält und dass viele Leute kommen :D

    Also wer noch interessiert ist, Details gibts auf Roberts Weblog.

    Ausrüstungsmässig war ich wie immer zu faul, mir ein Stativ zu kaufen, aber vielleicht ergibt sich ja etwas in Wien. Dank nomenestomen habe ich zumindest schon mal eins im Auge. Wenn mir dann noch ein entsprechendes Geschäft über den Weg läuft, kann ich mich ja vielleicht doch einmal nicht beherrschen. Ansonsten wird halt wie schon in Dresden mein Rucksack als Stativ herhalten müssen.

    Falls noch wer mit dem Zug aus dem Süden kommt, ich sitze vermutlich irgendwo im 6:48 Zug von Klagenfurt aus. Vielleicht läuft man sich ja über den Weg :-)

    2008/06/20 at 16:29:03

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