Am 10. Juni 2005 veranstalten die Fachschaftsr

What would a real party be without the live-stream. Audio and Video for your pleasure.

click the picture.

You’ll need Winamp 5 with installed VP3 Video codec. Enjoy! The stream will be online irregularly this week. So check from time to time.

Source: Stream

After the panoramic views now the “fotostory”.

On the Road.

This way!

So it’s supposed to be a party here?

OBEY! We’re getting closer to the nerd core as I call it.

Ladies and Gentleman: The Hackcenter!

The Uplink!…taped to the window…

Party!

This is a shot of the software the VJs are using to create the astounding visual effects everywhere in the party hall.

A sample of the results.

noisy party.

drum&bass with dj jerome

This is the first bunch of pictures I’ve taken tonight at the party. It’s aweseome to see such a big hall enlightened and full of people. Even more impressive: the great music and video installations. Party on!

Source: http://www.skureal.de/

theSpoke ON TOUR besucht vom 30.05. bis 08.06.2005 bundesweit zehn Städte. Die Roadshow bietet Know-How, Markttrends und Karrieretipps für alle technisch interessierten.

Themen sind:

• Mobility
• Games Development
• Direct X Basics

In Berlin und Dortmund findet zudem der theSpoke Games Cup statt.

Die Inhalte:

1. Games Development

Der Vortrag gibt eine kurze Übersicht über die Architektur der Microsoft DirectX-Komponenten. Der Schwerpunkt liegt auf der Spieleentwicklung von 3D Spielen in C++. Die Direct3D Programmierung wird anhand eines einfachen, leicht verständlichen Beispieles illustriert. Zudem wird eine Übersicht über Ausbildungsmöglichkeiten und die Anforderungen vom Arbeitsmarkt gegeben. Die Schwerpunkte werden je nach Veranstaltung und Speaker unterschiedlich liegen.

2. Mobile Geräte

Thema sind mobile Webanwendungen sowie Smart Clients auf Basis von .NET Compact Framework und der mobilen Datenbank SQL Server 2005 Mobile. Anhand von Live-Programmierung wird die Erstellung von Anwendungen gezeigt. Zudem werden die Pocket PCs und Smartphones Next Generation vorgestellt. Neben dem technischen Teil erfolgt auch ein kurzer Abriss über die Marktsituation für mobile Entwickler und die Anforderungen, die man für den Einstieg in diesen Bereich mitbringen sollte.

Hier die Termine der einzelnen Veranstaltungen:

Natürlich kann man sich sofort anmelden:

Because namenlos is managing the media storage array we had to visit the video cutting room. There were some teams cutting their videos and I was impressed by the number of G5s available there…

Namenlos dealing with problems, well…nothing more to say

count them!

AVID

You can watch the ISWISION broadcasts via live-stream or even better: Live at in the audience in MKR 102.

Enjoy the beautiful pictures of the campus. The pictures were made my Tibor Kerekes.

You can get a panoramic view of that place here.

I got my hands on some very great pictures of the universities campus. But in order to make them publicy available I was asked to remove the EXIF information from all the images.

So I searched for a tool that could to this fast. And I found JHead. It’s a fast and easy usable command line application that can modify, extract and in my case remove EXIF information.

Source: http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/jhead/

I knew ZBrush for some time, although I am not using it I am frequently asked where to get this program or even how it’s name is. So I put it on here to find it in the future.

“ZBrush 2 is a huge leap forward in speed, performance and technology. Modeling, texturing and painting features have all benefitted from unprecedented code enhancements. New tools and options provide even more versatility in all areas, boosting the artist’s productivity and streamlining workflow in surprising ways.

Z2 is fast. It boasts handsomely optimized code innovations, combined with unique features, providing more power to create models with unparalleled detailing capabilities. Even medium- to high-resolution models respond instantly to sculpting actions, constantly rendered and shaded in real time.

Building on the freedom to sculpt high-frequency details with ease, Z2 offers revolutionary new modeling, surfacing and texturing techniques, while intuitive controls focus these powerful resources on the creation process.”

The results are astounding. In just minutes you can create impressive high polygon meshes.

Source: http://pixologic.com/home/home.shtml

I couldn’t write about the arrival of the guests, so I do it afterwards and post some pictures with permission by NYBlog who took the pictures:

You can access the statistics here. There’s even a WIKI.

Source 1: ISWI 2005 statistics
Source 2: ISWIWIKI

hmm… nothing is going to happen.

Doh!. -2096314! Am I supposed to write them NOW?

This is a service announcement:

Das Keyboard

“If you are an elite programmer who can write sophisticated code under tight deadlines, someone who makes impossible projects possible; or a Silver Web Surfer your colleagues turn to when they need IT advice: this keyboard is for you.

Shouldn’t your keyboard reflect your status as one of the elite? We think so!”

Oh…just in case you didn’t notice: BLANK KEYS. I think I’ll get one…or two…

Source: http://www.daskeyboard.com/

I forgot to post a picture of the car:

Source: A Hamburger Today

There are some more new pictures of the laser in action available:

this is a direct hit of the camera…

a little bit to the left

approx. 2km distance to the laser

view from the lasers positon

Source: Star Wars is ein Witz!

Of course I took some panoramic views at this years Student Technology Conference:

the way inside…just before the registration opens

Track 1 hall…impressive isn’t it?

It’s over. See you next year!

Finally all the cool pictures from Erics last tour in South America arrived on my machine. So expect some really great pictures of even greater scenery.

I am working on several articles – but I want to start with the tour-overview map. It’s a map that shows the whole tour:

Source: Backpacking Teaser

As you may noticed further I got a HP Netserver LH4 some months ago. And this week was the day we “installed” the machine in the server room.

With five-man-power we managed to get the machine in place. It’s an awfully unhandy and heavy machine but you can hear the power when you turn it on (actually you even can feel it… beware of getting soaked in)

It’s a quite big box…unfortunately.

Source: HP Netserver LH4

the facts:

average speed: 179,046901 km/h
top speed: 207 km/h
duration: 00:10:21
track length: 30,51 km

not Vmax but okay…

Neno Loje, Microsoft Student Partner at the University of Hamburg talked about Visual Studio Tools. Especially the Tools and little Gadget Features in the upcoming Visual Studio 2005.

(click for more info)

Diego, a friend from Pisa just gave me a link to an article about his R2D2… Looks really awesome. I guess the return of the Jedi or even the Sith is not too far away anymore… I look forward to see it in action. Or even better, maybe I can write some code for it…

May the force be with you!

Link: http://www.repubblica.it/copertine/scienza_e_tecnologia/copertina.htm

it takes just minutes to get like this.

We had a second brainstorming session yesterday where we discussed the possible plugin architecture for multeem.

Here are the whiteboard sketches:

Ralf Westphal talked about his new approach in software architecture. It’s easier to understand and more intuitive than every other software architecture technology (UML,…) – And that’s not only because you don’t have to use different notation for complex and simple problems. Take a look at Ralfs Weblog. He wrote six articles so far about his software cells.

“Each application for me thus is a software cell. The exact form does not really matter. A triangle is just the simplest 2D shape; so if you like, use squares, octagons or whatever you like to depict the outline of your application, to give it a surface other software cells can connect to. You can even go 3D: use a tetraeder or cube. Each edge or surface, though, should connect only two software cells/applications.”

Software Cell

Source: Ralf Westphals weblog

Microsoft Regional Director Ralf Westphal did the talk “Domain Specific Languages”. If you don’t know what domain specific languages are then take a look.

Source: domain specific languages