Archive 9/2007

So ... first day at the Barcamp in Vienna and 2nd day in Vienna itself. I was just lucky to get to the MS building in time from the hotel (the metro was quite deserted) Nice building and absolutely stunning location in general. The rooms are just great.

There you've ignored Launchpad for 2 months and when you take a look at it again, and all of a sudden it includes all the features you complained were missing the last time you checked. Perfect.

Tonight finally Pixelmator, the quite hyped new image editor for the Mac, has seen its first public release. And since I was actually looking forward to it, I gave it a try right after waking up ...

Once again a post about a tool that I use quite frequently (or plan to). This time: SCons. If you know the GNU Make utility, SCons tries to solve the same problems while having a quite different philosophy. But that's just fine since I also use it for other stuff and not just compiling C code

I'm not really a fan of Microsoft's products and so far only had not so great experience with their support, but this time it's different. About a week ago I wrote about my Xbox360 leaving home for the next Microsoft support center ...

The second book of the "Vulcan's Soul" trilogy is once again a book for those of you out there, who might want to get to know the Vulcan people a little bit better. Or especially their history, for that matter. Luckily it's now also available as paperback, so you can save some money compared to the horrendously expensive hard-cover version

By now you've probably already heard of the quite big interface changes on the social bookmarking and news-site Digg.com which were announced yesterday evening ... actually about 26 hours ago by Kevin Rose on the official Digg blog...

Lately I've been in need for some simple client-server solutions that do specific jobs like transcoding a video using mencoder or simply adding an AVI container to a FLV videostream and MP3 audiostream. So I started taking a close look at the Twisted framework for Python ...

About 2 years ago I got man hands on Meta Gear AC!D, a card-based strategy game for the PSP set in the Metal Gear universe. While heavily criticized by nearly every review crew on the planet, I still really enjoyed it and it was one of the few titles I really found the motivation to finish. On my trip to the Czech Republic and Germany I took the successor to this game with me ...

11 days ago the first official phpBB podcast was released to the net. In order to increase awareness for it, I also wanted to submit it to Digg's podcast listing aside from services like Odeo and similar sites ...