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Offene Daten und die Deutsche Bahn als Vorbild #opendata #deutschebahn
Die Deutsche Bahn hat letztes Jahr ihr Offene-Daten-Portal (Open Data Portal) ins Web gestellt. Ein erster Schritt und ein wichtiges Angebot, das wahrgenommen werden sollte. Die Deutsche Bahn ist auch ein Vorbild für Deutschland und Deutsche. Meine Meinung, vereinfacht: Ist die Deutsche Bahn dreckig, fühlt sich Deutschland dreckig; ist die Deutsche Bahn verspätet, bemühen sich…
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The design space for object creation
While preparing a session on (object-oriented) object creation for my Advanced Design and Programming course, I noticed that there are at least two major ways of looking at how to decide on how to create an object. The traditional way is a (still unwritten) pattern language that utilizes the classic Gang-of-Four object creational patterns (and…
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Things wrong with my Amazon Echo and Fire tablet
A while back I gushed about how great the Amazon Echo is. True Star Trek feeling for those who remember. I even bought an Amazon Fire tablet to go with it. With a couple of months more using the devices, I need to point out their weaknesses. In a nutshell, if you don’t want to…
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The Frankfurt opera house, criving C programmers crazy since 1972
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Wed Nov 19: At Offener IT Gipfel and Hochsprung Award
Today, I was in two places at once. I participated in the Offener IT Gipfel of Germany’s green party where I had been invited to give a talk on open source and to participate in a panel moderated by a member of the German national parliament. (Local copy.) I was also present at the Hochsprung…
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Call for papers: OpenSym 2016, the 12th International Symposium on Open Collaboration
OpenSym 2016, the 12th International Symposium on Open Collaboration August 17-19, 2016 | Berlin, Germany http://opensym.org/os2016 About the conference The 12th International Symposium on Open Collaboration (OpenSym 2016) is the premier conference on open collaboration research and practice, including open source, open data, open education, wikis and related social media, Wikipedia, and IT-driven open innovation…