During the summer I had a bit of free time. I had no university courses, almost no ongoing projects and was only working for two days a week. So I decided to build a small web app.

Last year I bought an Acer Aspire 5560G as my second laptop (yes, sometimes two are better than one). A half year later, I was working pretty much with this laptop and decided to upgrade it with a SSD drive. So I bought a brand new Samsung SSD 840 PRO with 256 GB. I was very happy. Well, was…

Am vergangenen Montag (05. August 2013) haben ich die letzte Projektarbeit für dieses Semester abgeschlossen: ein Paper über Bildoptimierung für Webseiten. Zusammen mit Annette Landmesser habe ich das Paper für die Veranstaltung Entwicklung von Rich Media Systemen von Jakob Schröter an der HdM Stuttgart geschrieben.

It’s done! Last Friday (26th July 2013) was the final presentation of our semester project TechTrends. Together with Raphael Brand and Hannes Pernpeintner I worked the last 5 months on this project - and we are really happy about it.

Tomorrow morning is the final presentation of our semester project TechTrends. I posted several articles about TechTrends (see here) and I will definetely post one more after tomorrow. But for now, here’s our final presentation.

During the last four weeks I did another small project for one of my university courses this semester. The course was about ORM modelling and abstractions for databases. We did some exercies with Hibernate and discussed diefferent aspects about ORM modelling. At the end of the course, every student made a small web-project using a framework and ORM tool of his choice.

Next Friday (July 26th 2013) the final presentation of TechTrends will take place at our university. The presentation will take about 60 min and will cover topics like architecture, crawling, data storage and front end design. Everybody interested is welcome (please send me an email before). Here’s the whole schedule for next week:

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.

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 (e.g. bitcoin) and get a timeline showing you when articles for this topic have been published.

The question is easy: How can I visualize the track of a KML file on Google Maps via JavaScript?