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Heute las ich diesen Artikel. Nach dem zweiten Absatz schweiften meine Gedanken ab, insgesamt bin ich drei oder vier mal neu in den Text eingestiegen. So true, so true…
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…S.T.A.L.K.E.R. (budget) and Rainbow Six: Vegas II.
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I am getting dumb of writing the same code over and over, so I am finally in the process of setting up a C++ framework with core functionality I use in almost every project: macros (e.g. assertions), helper functions (e.g. pattern matching), serialization, virtual file system, XML support,… Some of the stuff is extracted from [...]

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d034058 put some thought into the “Du bist Deutschland” (”You are Germany”) campaign by leading German media companies. He photographed to what a German citizen is reduced to by recent German government efforts: his biometric data. Great idea. (License: CC BY-NC-SA, via: Weblog von stefan)
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…ist, wenn Schäuble vorm allgemeinen Vertrauensverlust warnt.
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I upgraded to WordPress 2.5.1 today due to some major security issues (German link) and was reminded that one of my widgets was not working correctly. Nathan Oliphant wrote this widget to display bookmarks in the sort order of the users choosing. Unfortunately, it had two minor bugs which 1. caused changes not to be [...]

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Today, I wrote a simple MyBB plugin, Registration eMail Check (RMC). The plugin first verifies whether the email has a valid format, then compares the email host with a number of hosts which were explicitly disabled by the administrator (the plugin comes with a decent list of well-known one-time address providers), and finally tries to [...]

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I’ve been doing a bit XP at home lately.

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I saw the following advertisement on AutoScout24 today.

5300 EUR for a 2007 Audi A3 ragtop. This looked too good to be true, indeed, but still I couldn’t hesitate to contact the seller. The telephone number shown in the ad turned out to be a fax number, so I tried to get in touch by email. [...]

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I didn’t write for some time, and I have several good reasons not to do so in the future (beautiful blue eyes, long blonde hair and an amazing smile, for example). Still, I’d like to post about Timanfaya, a sightseeing adventure game located on the island Lanzarote written by Martin Lassahn.

Timanfaya is a beautifully animated [...]

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Last year, I wrote several entries and a review on Glow, a diabolic Jump’n’Run created by my friends at Black Chronos.

Unfortunately, Glow did not bring the commercial success the folks behind Black Chronos had expected, so they eventually had to cease business. Fortunately, though, Glow will be released as freeware soon as stated on the [...]

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»It’s not a laughing matter… if you type “Google” into google, you can break the internet.« (The IT Crowd)
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I came across a funny side note in The Pragmatic Programmer:
In 1897, Indiana State Legislature House Bill No. 246 attempted to decree that henceforth PI should have the value of “3″. The Bill was tabled indefinitely at its second reading when a mathematics professor pointed out that their powers did not quite extend to passing [...]

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I have released another publication, a short (German) review of the last Spieleentwicklertreff NRW (Game Developers Gathering North Rhine-Westphalia) which took place at the Mediadesignhochschule Düsseldorf. Have a look!

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…to Wordpress 2.3.3.
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I added a new book review on JBoss Seam – Simplicity and Power beyond Java EE.
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I have added some little bugfixes to my serialization tutorial, methods XMLDeserializer::readNumberOfElements() and BinaryDeserializer::readParameter in particular.
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Over the last four months, one of my fellow #gamedev.ger residents, Friedrich “rip” Hanisch, and his girlfriend Jana Reinhardt have created a beautiful Irrlicht-based multiplayer game prototype called Omerta - Schweigen ist Gold. I eagerly followed the development and I was stunned by the quality they achieved in all regards. Remember, two people, four months, [...]

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Ooops, I didn’t write much lately since there wasn’t much to write about. I had great holidays and a fantastic New Years Eve, and I met some nice people in the past few days. I hope you all had a great time, too. A happy new year to everyone!
I digged through StudiVZ the other day [...]

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