Thesis printed. Presentation hold. Done.
And now?
Photosafari in St. Pauli. My Neighbour’s funeral. Return lend books. And still trying to get some sleep…
News
Okay, I know these long-time-nothing-written-then-dead-blogs, too. And I can’t swear that I will write more frequently.
My Desk at blau.de
So, what’s going on? I’ve read some older entries eg. about the reqruiting fair at our university. Since September I’m an intern at Blau Mobilfunk (also know as blau.de). In November I’ve started to write my bachelorthesis with the title “Vespucci: Development of an Geodata Editor for the OpenStreetMap-Project on the Android-Plattform” *puh*. Deadline is on 26.2. and my presentation on 3.3..
Using Google as Calculator for Bash
In my eyes, GNU’s program “expr” is not very handy. Google has its own build-in calculator with currency-, unit conversion and further tools. So I’ve wrote a tiny bash-script to use Google for my conversions and calculations:
Update: Narf, pasting code in wordpress is not a fine thing. So here’s the paste:
http://sprunge.us/BNeX
Update2: Henrik got rid of the HTML-Output by an unvalid query. Here’s the updated version.
#!/bin/bash
# Written by Matthias Brandt (http://www.matthias-brandt.de)
# No warrenty given. Use may violent against Google's Terms of Use.
# Copyleft: GPLv3, http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lgpl.html
USER_AGENT=’Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008061017 Firefox/3.0′
#Substitute “+”,”/” with HTML-entities and blanks with “+”
QUERY=$(echo $* | sed ‘s/+/\%2B/g;s/\//\%2F/g;s/ /+/g’)
#wget the page, find the result and append a newline
wget -q -O – –user-agent=$USER_AGENT http://www.google.de/search?q=”$QUERY” | sed -e ‘/img/!d;s/.*<td nowrap dir=”ltr”><h2 class=”r”><font size=”+1″><b>\([^<]*\).*/\1/;/</d’ && echo “”
Examples:
calc 3 euro in usd
3 Euro = 4,6803 US-Dollar
calc 4353 in hex
4 353 = 0×1101
calc “4*3^2*sqrt(2)*tan(0.5)”
4 * (3^2) * sqrt(2) * tan(0.5) = 27.8131821
Business Cards and a lot of Logos
Wednesday and Thursday there was a recruiting fair at our university. I had many talks with several companies and got here and there some invitations for a meeting with them. It’s really nice to have the application this way without the whole bureaucracy with writing an cover letter for hours.
Most of them were really excited about my ideas for the bachelor thesis, which I won’t tell in here =) All I can say is that my favourite project would be in programming with Android (aka “Google-Phone”).
Friday evening I was invited for a barbecue at freiheit.com, my favourite employer. It was really nice to have a chat with many employees, including the CEO Stefan Richter. This week will decide if I do my internship and bachelor thesis there.
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Just coming home from the public viewing at Heiligengeistfeld, St. Pauli. Enjoy the pictures =)
Vintner’s Pan
Or in German “Winzerpfanne”. It was the dish for Monday evening. A few weeks ago, Sandra and I have had this great idea to have a cooking session. Due to my small appartement and my move not until 1st July we decided to use her kitchen in their church. Marvin and Cora joined us and we’ve had a very nice evening. Marvin bought some really delicious strawberries, my first in this season!
The night ended with an attempt to repair Sandra’s broken laptop called “Gabriel“, an older but still good looking IBM Thinkpad. The display seemed to have a loose contact and shows either black or funny wallpaper patterns… We couldn’t solve the problem, but everybody had his first insight of an opened Laptop now =)
By the way, Sandra told me that she doesn’t like to read my blog because of all this technical stuff in here. So I’ll try to make this a little bit more personal, even when the purpose was originally only technical =)
Building the Golden Gate Bridge
One of my current university projects is to build a 3D modell for “Procedural Modelling” with Houdini. My partner and I started yesterday and we’re becoming faster than I thought. Now I’ve finished the riders and bars and I’m getting close to the sidewalk of the bridge.
Hyperbass
Mute Math are back in studio!
They are my absolute favourite band ever. Their style is hard to describe: Often you are told, that it’s somewhere between “rock, new wave, electro, psychedelia, and jazz with ambient vocals” (WP). Besides this, the reason why I love them so much is their really cutting-edge sounds and a huge passion for music. Once you have seen them, you would think, all other musicians play like robots. Awsome!
Here’s their last single “Typical”:
Meeting the Gang of Four
I went for a short trip to my parents last weekend. To have some literature for the train, I took the book about reusable object-oriented software: Design Patterns by the “Gang of Four“. Unfortunately, our library in Wedel has only the German translation. But anyway, this time I’m really interested in the topic, not like last year, when I’ve only had to pass an exam. Our Virtual Reality project is still in progress and Gamma’s Design Patterns are very important to our framework.
Later this Wednesday, I’ve been at the library at Berliner Tor, where two last copies in English stood. While walking by the shelves, I saw so many books I’d like to read. Books about Java, Perl, Python, Ruby, …
I defintely need more time in my life!
Ulteo – Wine for Windows
Almost every Linux user knows wine. It’s emulating a Windowssystem Layer to run Windows applications on Linux.
Ulteo’s “Virtual Desktop” does the way around: It emulates Linuxsystem Layer, so you can run Amarok, Konqueror, Kopete and others as well. The interesting thing about that is, Linux applications seem to get more acceptance so there is a need for emulating its programms on Windows.
[via Pro-Linux]
