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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 cologne.rb, a Cologne Ruby Usergroup. You can find his code on github and his tweets on twitter.
Till 2010 Bodo was the project lead of TV-Browser, a java based tv 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
Sigint 2012
Another month, another big event. It seems like Cologne is a real heaven for nerds right now. From my point of view its right behind Berlin as #2 best nerd place in Germany. Hcking.de is a good proof for that. … Continue reading
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Wow, Advance Hackathon!
Photo (c) ADVANCE Conference Wow, THAT was a great weekend. The Advance Hackathon was a complete success. Over 100 people hacking, networking and having fun together. It was one of the best hackathons I ever participated. The project topics have … Continue reading
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Señor Developer
My new #1 nerd shirt . Thanks to @señordeveloper. The shirts can be found here. Update: This photo was taken by droid boy at the advance hackathon.
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Important email lessons, part 1: priority
In every mail program you will find an option to set the priority of your emails. On a mac it looks like this: But what is it good for? If you think it is as a hint for the reader … Continue reading
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Boxee Airplay Support under Mac OS 10.7
I had a few troubles getting Airplay to work under Mac OS 10.7. The solution is to disable IPv6 on your Mac . To do this, you have to open the terminal and enter this: 12networksetup -setv6off Ethernet networksetup -setv6off … Continue reading
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Advance Hackathon
Yeah…the next hackathon for hcking.de is approaching. From 27th to 29th of April you will find me and around 60 other hackers at the There will be tons of different topics to hack on. A list of all proposals can … Continue reading
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OpenData – Cologne (KVB) bus and train stop geo coordinates
Today I played around with OpenStreetMap to get all geo locations for the stops of the cologne train and bus system. I needed those as preparation for the Advance Hackathon in April. To my surprise it was relatively easy to … Continue reading
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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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