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This is the blog of Bodo Tasche aka bitboxer.
Bodo is currently working for putpat.tv and tries to help the cologne developer community with hcking.de, a calender for hackers around cologne. He also loves to participate in RuRUG, a Cologne Ruby Usergroup. You can find his code on github and his tweets on on twitter.
Till 2010 Bodo was the project lead of TV-Browser, a java based program guide with over 100.000 users.
Want to hire Bodo as a freelancer? Complete contact details can be found here.
You can find more about him on the about page.
Author Archives: bitboxer
Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty
My last book review was nearly a year ago. It’s time to change that. In the last few months I struggled a little bit with designing a few websites. Yes, I am a web developer. And yes, I create good … Continue reading
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How I survived one week without an adblocker
Last week I did a little experiment. I tried to surf the net without an activated adblocker. And I survived! Till then I never touched any site without one. Exactly like you do. For over 10 years. And then I … Continue reading
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Hcking.de Hackathon!!
Lucas and I want to speed up the development on hcking.de a little bit. And for that we will do an all weekend hacking event called “hcking.de hackathon” on the weekend of 8th/9th october. It will be a weekend with … Continue reading
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My wordpress theme
This week I was asked to publish my WordPress theme and now I uploaded it to github. Basically it’s a modified Twenty Ten Theme. You can find it here.
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Hey OpenStreetMap, less is more!
I am really proud of you, OpenStreetMap. You collected tons of data. Tons and tons of it. For example, look at the Cologne Zoo in OpenStreetMap: And this is how it looks like in Google Maps: A lot of information. … Continue reading
Events for developers around Cologne, Part II
Last year I started hacking-cologne.de, a calender for hacking events around cologen. Now it is time to go a step further. I replaced the google calender with a small rails app. At the moment it’s only a small app with … Continue reading
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Thanks Euruko Crew!
Wow. The Eurko 2011 was one of the best conferences I ever attended. Tons of great talks and super friendly attendees. Sadly we had to travel back to cologne and couldn’t go to the github meetup on sunday . The … Continue reading
The book that changed my life
If I had to name one book that changed my life, it will be the book on the lower right. It’s the handbook of a Commodore 64. I will never forget the “Ahhhh” moment I got after entering the first … Continue reading
Meet me @euruko !
I will present a talk about arduino and ruby at the euruko this year. Hope to see you there! Endless fun with Arduino and Eventmachine After seven years of working as a java developer, Bodo fall in love with ruby … Continue reading
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Javascript: The good parts
Another week, another book. JavaScript: The Good Parts. But I can’t recommend this book. Imagine your worst teacher. The guy who could put you into a coma only by thinking of him. A boring guy that can’t teach, but tries … Continue reading
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