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Kids and Computers
| Jun |
I still remember my first contact with computers. Not. Because it is that long ago - my father brought a PC home when I was 4. 1988. It was an Intel 80286-chipped motherboard with little RAM, little HDD-memory, a 5.25" floppy drive and a keyboard. No mouse. I got used to doing stuff on it soon and I remember doing funny stuff with autoexec.bat in grammar-school. I wrote batch-files for quickly starting my games and made little quizzes with the (no longer existing) CHOICE-command. And I also started doing mechanical operations like putting new parts in and old parts out.
Read more... I am very glad about gaining that much experience in those days. Today, I think I am better prepared working with computers than those people, that got themselves computers during the end-1990s. Why do I say so? Because I spent so much time "repairing" computers owned by people who just thought "Everybody has one. I need one too.". Plus: I know shurtcuts and can work a little faster, since I still don't really like that mouse next to me. So, now that you know a little about my history, I'll try to allude you to the present where my little, 11-year-old brother attends hichschool and it seems that EDP is really reaching schools. He, remember: 11-year-old, has to do powerpoint-presentations during his speeches in school. They write email. A whole lot of. And: they have a locked section in their school's website, where they work with different WebApps. Okay, they provide GoogleApps, but in fact, my little brother is able to create a small and personal website with pictures, links and stuff. I was rather early creating websites by starting in 1999. I was 15 then. Why did I have to make that post? Sure, I am proud of that kid but my second brother, just gotten 17, didn't really have such education in highschool. They did something called ECDL. I don't have ECDL, but I think most of you know about it's worth. I really hope, schools will carry on using computers and software to make kids used to working with computers. It seems like, schools find computers important for the pupils lives. BUT - when will they finally see, that also a driving-license is important? Hard for me to say that, but - uaaarrrgggghhh - we should copy this one from america. |
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Firefox 3.5 RC2
| Jun |
I just installed Firefox 3.5 RC2. First I was afraid, that there could be some strange behaviour or something like that, but so far (about 1 hour of usage) everthing seems to be okay with FF3.5. What I really like about FF3.5 is its speed.
Read more... I just played around a little with Demos of YUI and extJS and it turned out to be very fast. For Example: I got up Feed Viewer 3 in 1.6 seconds! Amazing. Also my website's loading-time decreased by something around 1 second, eventhough I don't really use that much JavaScript there. I got to play around a little more, but for now I really like it. Let's wait for the final release! |
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Go get some extra lessons!
| Jun |
Today I spent a little time thinking about performance. As you might know, I just published my new website which is RSS-Feed based. There are many feeds, but two of them regard Picasa. One integrated Feed displays my Albums at one place and one displays a randomly selected photo at another place. But: The performance is all but good (about 7.5s per Page due to these Feeds).
Read more... So I thought, it might be a good idea to manage these feeds with Google's Data API. I had some problems in the beginning, but after all I got it working. The only problem: the site's performance didn't improve at all, since the Random-Photo-Feature still takes so long, that I could have kept my RSS-feature instead of installing Mammoth-Google-API. The reason for the bad performance is that there is NO FUNCTION for getting a randomly selected photo and that I had to write a script to randomly select one, which is rather slow. I was a little curious about that. Especially, that there is NO FUNCTION to get a random pic in the whole Google Data API. Well, ... I kept on exploring the API and - due to that - the WWW and billions of forums (at least it felt like that) and faced a little more strange behaviour. I next tried Google Calendar to integrate my friend's birthdays within the next 14 days into my sidebar. It went rather quick to get the Calendar's items there, but here's the next bug (?): There is NO CHANCE to sort these items by their start-time or anything else. Eventhough there are functions for that. You can setSortOrder and setOrderby at different places, but the only solution seems to be the following:
I meadn - they query a database...the really should be able to generate a correct orderby-clause. I don't know why, but these products have been marked Graduates of Google Labs. Maybe they need to go back there for some extra lessons? I think, that would be a good idea... And I also think, someone should try to do better documentation on Zend and Google Data API. |
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Google NaCl
| Jun |
Yesterday, I happened to browse in a german IT-magazine. Not that this is something extraordinary, but when this article on Google's Native Client caught my attention, I realized that I haven't been checking out Google Labs for ages.
Read more... Well, it turned out to be not that exciting. Google seems to be very busy with Android and Google Maps (or even taking over Yahoo), but here are some thoughts on Google NaCl. NaCl (Google's site on NaCl, Wikipedia), which is very experimental at the moment (34 open issues at the moment), could (could!!!) be something like a turbo for the web, since it's able to nearly use full CPU-power featuring access to the computer's memory without having access to the Filesystem. Plus: there's a check on dangerous code. I am not into deep enough yet and I have not experimented at all, but having something boosting up webapplications' performance is something we really long for, eventhough most of us don't know that. Having brought up AJAX and stuff to an excellent (?) level (just think of toos like YUI or extJS), we are able to make our webapplication's frontend look and feel like desktop-applications. Okay, the performance of JavaScript improved a lot in recent months, but still there is so much to reach for. It's kind of interesting, how our computers changed from Terminals to Desktops and back to some kind of Terminals. Now, that our applications more and more hike online, it looks like the next step will bring us hybrids in of Terminals and Desktops and push our applications and multimedia usage more online. For now, there'll remain two unanswered questions:
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Welcome...
| Jun |
Hi Everybody.
Read more... In order to get this thing started, I - once more - would like to introduce you to my new Website. Since my last version wasn't really up to now and also my internet usage has dramatically changed, I started developing a new one. And, eventually, I am very proud to present my output to the publicity. When I started to think about the main questions "What to put on this website?" and "How to put content on this website?", there was one main idea that came to my mind - RSS Feeds. Take a nice CSS-Layout, try to get feeds on it and write something for each personal section. The rest will update automatically by whatever I am doing on the web. Without spending extra time on it. Simple, easy and up-to-date. So, after letting you into my thoughts about this website, I hope you have a good time here and find everything you might be looking for... |
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Newsticker
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Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:49)
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- Hauptverbandschef - "500 Millionen mehr für Krankenkassen"
- SPÖ-Stiftung Steiermark - ÖVP vermutet weiter Wahlkampffinanzierung
(Updated: Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:17)
- Dresdner Chipmasken-Hersteller leidet unter Qimonda-Pleite
- Freibeuter in Hamburg: Piratenpartei berät über Wahlprogramm
- Auflagen-stark: US-Fördermittel für Breitbandnetze nur unter Bedingungen
(Updated:
Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:17)
- Milliardenraub im Metaversum
- Piratenpartei stellt sich für Bundestagswahl auf
- "Raumschiff zum Anziehen"
(Updated:
Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:40)
- Gibbs signs new long-term contract
- TV Online: Manuel's 2008/09 highlights
- Club to play Valencia in pre-season friendly
Last modified: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 02:17
