Fighting the Financial Crisis

Just in case you haven’t noted, we are in or are slithering into a recession, depending on what industrial sector you depend on most. Although automobile industry is pretty dominant over here, recession hasn’t hit me personal. But I remember the dot com crash in earlier this millennium very well. My employer went out of [...]

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A new Conference is born: SEACON


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There is a new conference taking place in 2009. You can find the call for paper here. Thing I find most promissing about it is: they actually try to use the quality of presentation technique for deciding on the selection of talks:
Einreichungen, die alternative, partizipativere Formate
verwenden, werden bevorzugt. Wenn die klassische Vortragsform gewählt wird, dann [...]

Demotivating people


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Don’t let you fool by all the christmas greetings! There is work to be done, and to get it done faster it is always a good idea to demotivate people. So here are some tricks to get you going.

Don’t tell people what you want. Tell them how to do it. After all you hired experts [...]

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News on Testing for databases


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I have blogged before about my experience with database development and how it feels like stone age if you are coming from the object oriented world. Obviously an area where a lot of improvement is needed.
Here is somebody else working on that problem. He is aproaching the problem using FIT or at least based on [...]

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Layering Validations


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Almost every application needs validation, and validation frameworks do support developers for so long now that there finally is a JSR for it. Yet one thing I haven’t seen so far: a concept for layering validations. So here it comes
If you try to automate validation you’ll soon discover that there are different types of validation [...]

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Ich mach mir jetzt ne Tasse Tee


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Oh wie war!

Gefunden via work.innovation

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Probleme lösen


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In einer Klausur über theoretische Physik wurde mir eine der wiederlichsten Fragen gestellt, die mir in einer Prüfung gestellt wurden: “Wie lösen Sie ein physikalisches Problem?”
Ein Kommilitone versuchte es mit dieser Antwort:
“Es gibt zwei Möglichkeiten: Entweder es ist ein schon gelöstes Problem, dann hat schon jemand eine Lösung dafür und ich schlage sie nach, oder [...]

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Ohne weitere Worte


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James Nachtwey: TED Prize wish: Share a vital story with the world

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