I love BarCamps, I love the people and I love the “Camposphere”. I’ve been on 7 *Camps across Europe and I haven’t regretted one. But now I am having big concerns on the second BlogCamp in Switzerland. Maybe it is just me, but I miss the atmosphere I always had on the days before a […]
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We have coworking. Has anybody ever thought of cosleeping / cobedding / coliving? I think it is time for ONE global language. The German synchronizations of US-series (Lost, Heroes, Simpsons) just is … horrible Why is Apple still selling the iPhone as a locked device? Don’t they know they gonna lose no matter what? If […]
Continue ReadingWebtuesday: Load Testing of Web Applications (Video)
This month’s Webtuesday was all about “Load Testing of Web Applications”. Jürg Stuker demoed a nice and free tool to load test your applications named “Proxy Sniffer“. And that describes it pretty good. First you record a session and browse behavior with the built-in proxy server and later you can re-run the same process with […]
Continue ReadingSouth Park makes fun of Switzerland – And I like it
“Sir, you need to call the European Fecal Standards and Measuremetics in Zurich” And now, what building looks like that picture? Right, the ETH main building in Zurich. More about the latest South Park episode (Season 11, Episode 09) on Wikipedia.
Continue ReadingMicrosoft Silverlight: Demos
On October 4th 2007, the day Steve Ballmer was in Switzerland and talked about “Next Era of Software” Sascha P. Corti demoed Microsoft’s newest child called Silverlight. Wikipedia describes Silverlight as “competition for Adobe Flash and Sun’s JavaFX”. Microsoft Silverlight (code-named Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere or WPF/E) is a proprietary runtime for browser-based Rich Internet Applications, […]
Continue ReadingFacebook Apps: Is there really a business?
No, I have no Facebook account. No, I was never curious about it. Yes, I see all those news about Facebook, Facebook Apps and discussions about it. Now people are talking funding Facebook Apps. Is there really a business in Facebook Apps? Can you really make a buck or two from that? And why do […]
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