Media Night Review

Raphael Brand, Hannes Pernpeintner and I presented our semester project yesterday on the Media Night at our university. It was very nice to met some interested people, to answer their questions and to show what we did during the last four months. Thanks. Here are some impressions of last night. Our project is still online […]

TechTrends at the Media Night 2013 of the Media University Stuttgart

During this summer semester, two friends of mine and I made a student project called TechTrends. TechTrends is a web application that lets you search for articles and trends in the field of computer science. We crawl posts from Reddit and Hackernews and provide an intelligent search on them. You can type in a key-word […]

Visualizing KML files in Google Maps

The question is easy: How can I visualize the track of a KML file on Google Maps via JavaScript? Last evening, I spend about four hours looking for a solution for this (pretty trivial) question. In the end, the code was simple and very short, but it was hard to find some good and clear […]

Image optimization for websites

Optimizing the images of a web page is easy and the best way to speedup the site. On the basis of the famous book “Even Faster Web Sites” by Steve Souders, Annette Landmesser and I made a small presentation for an university course called Development of Rich Media Systems thought by Jakob Schröter. The presentation […]