Hello Berlin!

The last months have been an interesting and busy time for me (that’s why I didn’t write as much as I had planed, but I already got some new drafts in my WordPress!). After I finished my master’s thesis at Informatica in Stuttgart (greetings to the whole team!), I moved to Berlin for my first […]

Presentation of my master thesis

Over the last six months, I wrote my master thesis about porting an enterprise OSGi application to a PaaS. Last Monday, the 21th Juli 2014, I presented the main results of my thesis to my professor (best greetings to you, Mr. Goik!) and to my colleges (thanks to all of you!) at Informatica in Stuttgart-Weilimdorf, […]

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 […]

First steps with Ractive.js

During the summer I had a little bit of free time. I had no university courses, almost no on-going projects and was only working for two days a week. So I decided to build a small web app. Since I was couriosly waiting for some grades to arrive in the online portal of my university, […]

Bildoptimierung für Webseiten

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. Ihr findet das Paper direkt von Google Drive hier. Unsere […]

TechTrends – Searching trends on HN and Reddit

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. What is TechTrends? TechTrends is basically a search-engine for HN and Reddit (just the programming […]

TechTrends Final Presentation

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. The presentation shows how we built TechTrends and covers different aspects of the development process. It talks about crawling Hackernews […]