Idea Park at the Expo Plaza in Hanover

Nicole and I had a visit to the Idea Park exposition in the German Pavilion. The idea came to me reading a newspaper last weekend. It sounded fun, but was disappointing. Sure, there were some interesting things … well … I just dont seem to remember them right now … had we been there as children, we sure could have done a ton more things. Speaking of children … beware of parents telling you it would be worth the wait in line for some „attraction“ … or at least remember their faces. I might just be some boring show …

Nevertheless, I had a decent time even after realizing we had planned with the agenda of the wrong sunday… oh well 😉

Scuba-diving … after more than ten years of absence

Yeah! I got my license when I was … like … sixteen years old and never made a trip afterwards. So, when a friend of mine asked if I would like to get an update I decided to take the chance. Unfortunately, the water was cold (9°C), the sun was not really shining and the small lake that was our prey was … turbid. With a sight range from zero to maybe half a meter it was a little less disturbing than diving in quicksand – funny, anyway 😉
I got a glimpse of some kind of bottle or conduit, a shell, some underwater plants and a few branches … oh and of couse of the instructor who took me by the jacket and still managed to navigate us around only by compass. Afterwards, we were all joking about the bad visibility conditions, however the instructor said since we remained calm in such a situation – which we both did – he would let us both make our own dive trip together.
An intriguing idea, but after the first trip we were both cold and the small barbeque did not raise our ambitions to get back into the mud. Yet, it was quite nice and I plan on spending my sommer holiday in Egypt 😉
Furthermore, I will have a look at underwater hockey in the next weeks – sounds like fun, and I do miss swimming…

NFS mess

I could not stop thinking of the NFS problems that arose while moving the home directory out of the Xen server, so I googled, tried something and restarted services and machines countless times.
Turns out that it is a bad idea to mix host and wildcard declarations on shares in /etc/exports, as the damn thing internally still does not cope with this case …
I am not willing to blog anymore about his and will try to use unionfs next time to set up diskless nodes …

Me is off to frag his brains out …

New semester – with an easter egg?!?

My easter egg with a bad surprise was the failiure of the Xen server and any domain it hosted, after I tried to change a password … the easter egg with a nice surprise was having a long walk with Nicole, which turned more wholehearted than I had hoped for. If only I wouldn’t catch myself thinking about what might be … „New semester – with an easter egg?!?“ weiterlesen

2. Semester finished

Yep, finally my second semester at the university has ended and I am quite satisfied. Tests like Discreet Structures II (lots of Math) were decent. Even Monopolism seems to have left pre alpha!
Next week will start with another SAP training couse … at least only half a day. Unfortunately I only got two weeks to get things done … work wise that is. Then summer semester lessons will begin …
Luckily, lots of them will consist of coding for the Professor I work anyway 🙂

Furthermore, I am looking forward to summer!

blogging from within eclipse

Yesterday, we were talking about blogging and Leif said hewould like to see a client that showed him his last commits,to remind him what he did during the week. So I started lookingout for a blog plugin for Eclipse.

I found JBlogEditor and am typing this post from within eclipse, right now.

To do the same just download the latest release an unpack the com.chimshaw.jblogeditor*from the RCP release to an eclipse extension directory of your choice and restart eclipse. This way I do not have the problems Dan Haywoods mentioned, however I am getting „Invalid Menu Extension“ errors, when the editor tries to wrap a line. Not a real problem though…

Add the CVS-Changelog plugin and create a custom perspective and you are all go! Well, ok this only works with CVS and you will have to open a changelog for each project. Nevertheless, it’s a start …

Organizing myself

I am reflecting about how to organize the way I work. At the Fujaba Developer Days I got the feeling I should create smaller workchunks for myself that can be done in a day. Sure not everything can be cut down to that size, but getting done a small chunk every day feels more productive than completing a huge chunk every few weeks …

If I just managed to get up early every day 😉