Install OpinionTrends with nginx and memcached

OpinionTrends is build with Python and Flask. Therefore you can run it without any additional server right out of the box. Batteries included! However, it is much more common and much more efficient if you run it with a web server and an application server. A widely used combination for Python web applications is nginx […]

Working with GerritHub.io

This semester I attended an university course called System Engineering and Management taught by Prof. Walter Kriha. Together with Jan Müller, I build a continuous integration environment for the course. As we were looking for a code review system we found a plattform called GerritHub.io which offered a Gerrit system for GitHub as a service. […]

Media Night Apps

This year there is something new on the Media Night, the student fair at our university. The booklet is dead! In its past, the Media Night had had a printed booklet with its program and time table in it. The booklet was produced by one of our printing faculties for which the HdM is pretty […]

Continuous Integration Development Workflow

This semester I attended an university course called System Engineering and Management taught by Prof. Walter Kriha. The course has a slightly different topic every year and is made up of presentations from students, research assistants and other lecturers. The topic in this year was continuous integration and software deployment. Together with Jan Müller, I […]

Opinion Mining on Hackernews and Reddit

TechTrends Last semester two of my friends and I made some sort of a search engine for Hackernews and Reddit. The idea was to collect all articles published on those two platforms and search them for trends. It should be possible to type-in a certain keyword such as “Bitcoin” and retrieve a trend chart showing […]

Media Night Winter Semester 2013/2014

During the last summer semester, two friends of mine and I made a student project called TechTrends. TechTrends was a web application that let you search for articles and trends in the field of computer science. Based on posts from Reddit and Hackernews, it provided an intelligent search on a growing number of articles and […]