Author Archives: bitboxer

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

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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

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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

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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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Arduino Experiment 1 : Volume Slider for OSX using Eventmachine

At the moment I am experimenting a lot with Arduino. Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform that helps you to build hardware solutions in a very short time. Arduino can be used as a stand alone solution and can … Continue reading

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The Passionate Programmer

The last book for this week is The Passionate Programmer by Chad Fowler. I really want to travel back in time and give this book to my younger self. The one that was bored in his job and yelled at … Continue reading

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Next Ruby and Rails Usergroup Meetup

The Cologne Ruby and Rails usergroup will meet on Thursday, 24 March at 20:00 at the Coworking Cologne. We will have a talk by Jan Lühr about JRuby and an open mike session afterwards. If you want to talk to … Continue reading

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