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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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Those who followed this blog for some time know that I attended a Genesis concert in June. On New Year’s Eve 3sat shows parts of the Turn It On Again tour concert in Rome. Should be worth watching, and the rest of the schedule looks promising, too. I’ll have a look before heading towards the [...]

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(Image courtesy of mybestdesktops.com)
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I bought my first Samsung SyncMaster 204b about one and a half years ago. Although I had some problems with it, I decided to complete my set and get a second one. As you might recognize, I did not get the colors to match exactly yet, but I’ll try twiddle with that later.
The wallpaper is [...]

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4 days until Christmas Holidays…
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I have a BlackBerry 8800 for work which is generally a good thing. I can read and write email, notes and calendar entries from anywhere, surf the web, get a route calculated from my current position and so on and so on.

Still, it’s a work gadget, so it would be just half the fun if [...]

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Christopher sent word that entwickler-press.de offers 24 free German developer e-Books for download in a virtual Advent calendar. Here’s the full list:
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I couldn’t resist buying Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare when I was en route for Christmas presents on Saturday. If you’d like to read my experiences with it, read on.

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“Ich habe vor 18 Jahren in Leipzig für meine Freiheit demonstriert und ich finde es schrecklich, dass ich schon wieder in der Kälte stehen muss, um für diese Rechte zu kämpfen.”
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I started several projects during the development time of DVW and eventually none of them came to an end (yet) in favor of DVW, so I thought I could share some of my findings. I wrote a little tutorial about how to electively serialize to and from XML or binary respectively. I would really appreciate [...]

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…for all Firefox bloggers. It allows using the TAB key as an actual tab character in textarea fields. Homepage
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…keeps crashing my system (7600 GT / XP).
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Looks cool, doesn’t it? I believe the Wii version would be great fun.
More info at destructoid.com.
Update Here’s the official site.
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Since my posting on the SoundMAX BSOD issues has become quite popular, I have decided to write another posting on my more recent experiences with the drivers in Windows XP. The problem was that it did not crash anymore but it did not let me record my cards output (which is called “StereoMix” or also [...]

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