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My Rails Patch: reload on default scope – committed!

tobi — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:29:00 +0000

uiuiui, long time no read, as I’m quite busy lately. Just a quick update, my rails patch - fixing ‘reload’ on a AR with default scope - got finally committed – nice:

http://github.com/rails/rails/commit/4db72b702f7faca7da30a64e45daeee13733762a

GPG – up and running with Snow Leopard and Mail.app

tobi — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:23:45 +0000

Ok, I finally managed to set up my GPG Mail System. Thanks to the latest version of GPGMail and gpg (1.4.10) (via macports sudo port install gnupg) it’s running fine and smooth again with Snow Leopard and Mail.app. Perfect!

See MacGPG and GPGMail for more…

Find my GPG-Key here

UPDATE: btw. to get GPGP work with gmail, check out FireGPG, a nice plugin for Firefox, which works perfect for me on Mac OS X. Unfortunately I haven’t found any Safari solution yet…

Programming Interactivity: A Designer’s Guide to Processing, Arduino, and openFrameworks

tobi — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:14:09 +0000

I just stumbled upon this interesting sounding book by Joshua Noble:

Programming Interactivity: A Designer’s Guide to Processing, Arduino, and openFrameworks.

A few of the topics covered: Basic C, Processing, openFrameworks, Gesture and touch recognition, Motors and Servos, LEDs and LCDs, LilyPad and many more! – Wow, that’s sounds promising – wanna have!

www.programminginteractivity.com

mtXcontrol 1.0 released – as contribution to Seeedstudio Carnival Competition

tobi — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:46:45 +0000

As contribution for Seeedstudio Carnival I’m proud to release the version 1.0 of mtXcontrol today. It’s feature list extended quite a lot, beside new frame editing features like Frame moving and Copy & Paste, it now comes with Letter / Number placer to easily draw characters. Additional the frame preview bar makes it easily to navigate between the frames. As of this, it was time to get an proper UI with lot’s of buttons for those who couldn’t remember all those keyboard shortcuts (like me )

So check out this Demo:

Click here to view the embedded video.

Check out it’s new project page with details, video and sources to download:
http://www.rngtng.com/mtXcontrol

Quake like Terminal on Mac OS X: Visor Plugin

tobi — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:56:01 +0000

Sure you do remember Quake. And sure you di remember how cool the console faded / slided in from the top? Image this would be available for your Mac OS X Console/Terminal. Well now (actually since ages, but I just forgot to mention it is. As small SIMBL plugin called Visor Plugin allows to to bring up the Terminal via a hotkey in anytime. I really love it and can’t without it anymore.
Check it out here: http://visor.binaryage.com/

Stealth Project on a Nova 10x10x10 LED Cube

tobi — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 08:47:45 +0000

Hey guys, look at this: I just found this awesome project by Squidsoup. They put up a 10x10x10 LED Cube “NOVA 3D LED” (yes, 3 dimensions, yes that’s 1000 single controlled LEDs) and created cool stuff like webcam projection or a the “Stealth Project”, a game similar to Battleships. Just get it’s great sounds and projections:

Click here to view the embedded video.

More on this here: http://www.squidsoup.org/stealth/

[via nejo0017.wordpress.com]

A short evaluation of open source Newsletter/Mailinglist Software

tobi — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:18:39 +0000

A friend of mine asked me which newsletter system to use for sending abt 2k emails abt once a week. I couldn’t immediately respond, so I gave it a small evaluation of current products. As prerequisite, the system should be in active development, run on a (web)server, easy to use (usability over features) and it would be nice to use it at lowcost or for free. This limited the selection a lot and I just want to present my final opinion:

My favorite and ‘winner’ is the NotOneBit.com Simple Mailing List. It’s written in PHP, simple, clean and really easy to use. Perfect for a small use-case like this. Check it out: http://www.notonebit.com/projects/mailinglist/

Actually I thought PHPlist is first choice, but I didn’t liked it usability at all – I wonder why it’s so popular?

OpenEMM has a nice website and pretends to be opensource, but somehow I wasn’t able to get a proper version to run and test. ~~Looks more like fake to me…~~ Update: see comments, apparently there’s lot’s of work going on and you can download it from sourceforge easily..

MailMan is quite popular, known as stable and high performant, but still I don’t like the backend. The whole software looks a bit outdated to me… c’mon it’s 2009!!!

Other systems may worth a look as not for free, so I didn’t test them:

http://www.mailingwork.de/

http://www.supermailer.de/

http://www.campaignmonitor.com/

Nice sources to check:

http://www.inmedias.de/download/Newsletter-Software.pdf

http://www.vwsoft.de/?sectionid=pgminfo&pgmid=3

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_marketing_software

Event to be: Art vs. Technology Workshop Berlin

tobi — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 14:32:42 +0000

Just found this nice event, taking place from 20-21. June in Berlin, organized by the Tinkersoup people:

http://www.tinkersoup.de/workshop/

Unfortunately I may not be able to take part. Damn! ;-(

[update] Mac Os X 10.5.7 is out – all fine except volume control

tobi — Wed, 13 May 2009 20:59:44 +0000

Yeah Mac Os X 10.5.7 just got released. All fine for me, except my external USB soundcard Terratec Aureon 5.1 can’t be volume controlled anymore – strange!? Any idea what’s wrong?

[update - solved!]
Apparently downgrading the USB Sound kernel back to 10.5.6 Version solves the issue. See the comments and the Apple Discussion-board for more… Thx to sonderpop for that hint!