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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.
Category Archives: Development
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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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
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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Eloquent Ruby
At the moment I am sick at home and use the time to finally read some books that where on my to-do list. The first was “Eloquent Ruby” by Russ Olsen. It got very positive reviews around the net, including … Continue reading
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