Monatsarchiv für November 2008

Interesting thoughts about static methods on interfaces

Sonntag, den 30. November 2008

Jon Sket is arguing on his blog about having static methods in interfaces. I think his article is really good and worth reading. What do you think about this topic?

http://msmvps.com/blogs/jon_skeet/archive/2008/08/29/lessons-learned-from-protocol-buffers-part-4-static-interfaces.aspx

Funny pics…

Samstag, den 29. November 2008

It’s again time for funny pictures. Take a look at this website:

http://my.mmoabc.com/article/Michael/4087/Funny-Pictures-That-Makes-Life-Interesting.html

Have fun ;)

Really useless stuff you can do with G-Sensor

Freitag, den 28. November 2008

First of all I must say I’m watching a movie and at the same time I’m writing a blog post on my computer. I really miss my multi monitor environment I have at my office ;) Back to the topic…

I just stumbled over two really cool programs you can install on your windows mobile device with G-Sensor. The first application is BeMario. BeMario is a cool implementation of the lovely Super Mario Game we all played till we had wound fingers. So you might asking yourself what is new with this game? The cool thing is that Mario only jumps in this game if you jump with your phone in your hands (or shake it accordingly) ;)

bemario

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=2934494

The second one is the old game called spin-the-bottle. This romantic game should not be played with your work colleagues ;) Every shake with your phone will make the bottle spin. Hopefully the bottle will point to a nice cute person standing in front of you ;)

 http://blog.lieberlieber.com/2008/11/13/warum-programmieren-und-trinken-so-gut-zusammen-passt/

Finally my power food arrived!

Mittwoch, den 26. November 2008

Recently (exactly eight days ago) I ordered some vitamines and mineral supplements in the United States. I’m a huge fan of the Nature’s Plus product line. In my point of view Nature’s Plus manufactures the best products on the market. They are not artificially flavored, do not contain preservative agents and are mainly containing amino acid chelats. Amino acid chelats are as close as possible to the form the body can almost instantly process the vitamines and minerals and also offer the highest bioavailability. That means if you have for example 50 mg tablets of zinc in amino acid chelat form the body should be able to gain 50 mg zinc out of these tablets. Other forms of zinc would only free between 10-15% of the zinc rate contained in a tablet (in this example only 5 to max. 10 mg with 50 mg tablets). The rest would be left “untouched”…

The cool thing is that I ordered these vitamines and minerals on betterlife.com. First I was a little bit suspicious because the website does not look very nice. But the service they offer is fantastic. Low prices and absolutly fast delivery via American Postal Service. I mean eight days from the U.S. is really impressive. Here are pictures of my products I bought:

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Links:

Pss: For those who are wondering what the shipping costs were… Exactly 24 dollars. I will keep you posted how high the customs bill is…

WordPress now supports Google Gears

Dienstag, den 25. November 2008

I just recognized that my newest wordpress version that I have installed on my server supports the google gears local server. This allows me to download my most used parts of the blog software directly into the google gears local server. This server then serves as a communcation part between my real webserver and the locally cached files. The often used files will be directly loaded from local so I expect a huge performance improvement… I will keep you posted.

What is google gears?

http://gears.google.com/

Announcement

Dienstag, den 25. November 2008

Tracelight goes multi-language ;) No I’m just kidding. I will switch the official language of the blog entries from German to English. Hope I can still keep all the German readers of my blog.

Extension Methoden unter Compact Framework 2.0

Sonntag, den 23. November 2008

Interessanter Artikel:

http://www.simonrhart.com/2008/11/extension-method-support-in-compact.html

Have fun

XP Indexing Service abstellen

Sonntag, den 23. November 2008

Ich brauche eigentlich den Indexing Service von Windows XP nicht wirklich. Irgendwie habe ich einfach keine Verwendung für die Searchbar. Ich weiss eigentlich immer wo ein File liegt, weil ich habe es ja auch dort abgelegt. So klicke ich mich kurz durch den Explorer und habe das File. Den Geschwindigkeitsvorteil beim File finden den mir der Indexing Service bietet geht meiner Meinung nach unter wenn ich dafür viel CPU Power und erhöhter Festplattentraffic auf meiner Maschine habe. Darum habe ich mich entschieden den Service abzustellen. Hier eine englische Anleitung wie das geht:

To turn off indexing:

1. Open up “My Computer.”
2. Right-click on your hard drive (usually “C:”) and choose “Properties.”
3. Uncheck the box at the bottom that reads “Allow Indexing Service to…”
4. Click OK, and files will be removed from memory. This removal may take a few minutes to complete.

To disable the indexing service:

1. In the “Start” menu, choose “Run.”
2. Type “services.msc” and press Enter.
3. Scroll-down to “Indexing Service” and double-click it.
4. If the service status is “Running”, then stop it by pressing the “Stop” button.
5. To make sure this service doesn’t run again, under “Startup Type:”, choose “Disabled.”

Windows search will still work if you perform these steps, but it will work more slowly than if indexing was enabled.

XBox Update

Samstag, den 22. November 2008

Microsoft hat gerade ein neues Update für die XBox Oberfläche veröffentlicht. Es hat sich einiges getan! Überzeugt euch selbst:

Video: Neues Xbox Erlebnis (NXE) – Impressionen (4:27)

Spielzeug für Hobby DJs

Mittwoch, den 19. November 2008

Ich denke mit dem Tool kann man sicherlich nicht einen grossen DJ konkurenzieren. Aber spassig ist es wohl alleweil. Man stelle sich Parties vor wo der Gast selber DJ spielt und die Musik des Abends gestaltet ;)

Eine neue Erfahrung in Sachen Musik bietet Microsoft Surface und die Applikation Surface DJ von Vectosoft. Mit ein paar einfachen Handgriffen wird man so jeder laie zum DJ. Einfach Sounds und Loops in die Mitte der Surface-Anwendung schieben und fertig ist der Party-Sound:

Quelle: http://it-republik.de/dotnet/news/Heute-an-den-Plattentellern-DJ-Surface-046107.html