A GPS diary in four weeks with Play!

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 […]

TechTrends Presentation

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: 09.00h-10.10h Tech […]

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 […]

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 […]

ERASMUS Bericht

Nachdem ich nun mittlerweile wieder zurück in Deutschland bin, ist es Zeit für den obligatorischen ERASMUS-Bericht. Anbei findet ihr das PDF für meine Hochschule, aber auch ein paar persönliche Meinungen von mir zu den Vorlesungen die besucht habe. Ich hoffe es hilft euch. TDDB68 Concurrent programming and Operating Systems (Bachelor) Diese Vorlesung war meine einzige […]

Thomas’ Functional Interpreter

I just finished a small functional interpreter for an university course. To be precise, the interpreter itself is not functional, but it understands a functional, LISP-like language/syntax. The whole project is written in Java 7 and provides an interface to all Java classes on the class-path, too. I also tried to create a small IDE […]

Presentation about XForms

I have currently finished a presentation about XForms and how you can use XForms to create multimodal applications (according to a paper of Mikko Honkala and Mikko Pohja). Here is the Google Doc and here is the PDF file. I will post my own paper about the topic in a couple of days (or at […]

Ein Studium in Zahlen

Mit Ende des aktuellen Semesters, WS2011/12, beende ich mein Bachelorstudium. Einen Bachelor of Science inklusive. Und sonst? – Zahlen: Kohle: 1260 € für den Öffentlichen Nahverkehr in Stuttgart 10500 € Miete (WOW!) + 3000 € für Strom und… oh je, die Rechnung lasse ich lieber… 4340 € Studiengebühren und Semesterbeiträge Studium: 1277 Tage Studium 115 […]