My tandoori experience

Posted by Mike Haller on Saturday, January 26. 2008 at 18:32 in Selfmade
On friday, I visited an english food store located in the city of Zug, Switzerland, where I'm currently working.

There, I bought Patak's Tandoori Curry Paste with Tamarind and Ginger. After reading the recipe, I started to merge all the required ingredients into a bowl:
- Yogurt (500g)
- Tandoori Curry Paste (two table spoons)
- Chicken (cut into dices)
- Oil

Now, i'm waiting for it to marinate until tomorrow. Then, it will be cooked until no liquid is left or it gets creamy enough.

iPhone: 162MB Firmware-Upgrade von 1.1.2 auf 1.1.3

Posted by Mike Haller on Monday, January 21. 2008 at 08:00 in Private
Wow - 162.1 MB für vier neue Features:



1) Passen Sie Ihren Home-Bildschirm an.
2) Verorten Sie sich.
3) Greifen Sie mit Webclips auf Websites zu.
4) Eine SMS an alle.

Man könnte fast meinen, die Jungs bei Apple verwenden Java und massig Open-Source Libraries. Anders kann ich mir diese Platzverschwendung kaum vorstellen.

Interessant ist auch, dass die iPhone/iTunes-Synchronisierungsfunktion erkennt, dass das iPhone mehrfach abgestürzt ist, und bietet an, die Crash-Logfiles gleich an Apple zu senden. Habe natürlich vorher ein bisschen drin rumgestöbert, was für Infos da so drinstehen. Scheint aber okay zu sein und keine private Information zu enthalten: Prozess-IDs und Stacktraces.

Update: Ortungs-Feature funktioniert nicht im Ausland (Schweiz)

Genuitec Support at its best

Posted by Mike Haller on Sunday, January 20. 2008 at 11:30 in WTF
After having switched my workstation from Vista to Ubuntu, i began to install all the needed development stuff and a few extra gadgets to play with. One of the things i wanted to try out for weeks is Genuitecs Pulse, an installation manager for the Eclipse Platform.

Singlebörse

Posted by Mike Haller on Tuesday, January 15. 2008 at 20:29 in Private

Am Wochenende war mir etwas langweilig und so begann ich, an einem kleinen Bot zu entwickeln, der mir von einer bekannten Singlebörse die Mitgliederprofile in meine lokale SQL-Datenbank importiert. Ich habe ca. 12000 anonymisierte Accounts "abgegrast". Dabei kommen einige interessante und weniger interessante Statistiken heraus:

jMork GUI

Posted by Mike Haller on Sunday, January 13. 2008 at 22:28 in Java
jMork now has a simple GUI you can use to see the addresses in your Thunderbird Address Book and how they would be parsed by the parser.



Check out the current snapshot from the following subversion repository:
http://www.smartwerkz.com/svn/public/projects/jmork/trunk/

Run the GUI with the following command:
svn checkout http://www.smartwerkz.com/svn/public/projects/jmork/trunk/ jmork
cd jmork
mvn install
java -jar target/jmork-1.0.5-SNAPSHOT.jar


You will need Maven installed.
No other libraries are required for jMork.

About

My name is Mike Haller and I'm a software developer and architect at Innovations Software Technology in Germany. I love programming, playing games and reading books. I like good food, making photos and learning and mentoring about the craftsmanship of commercial software development.

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