Category Archives: code

The cloud and me

Posted on May 12, 2011 by admin

Last year people from a big IT Blog asked me to write an article about cloud computing for their site … but it actually never got published. Here it is: I always wanted to own the things, that I use. … Continue reading →

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Note to self: Don’t play around with Gmail languages while using IMAP

Posted on July 2, 2010 by admin

I use Googlemail a lot. Mostly out of the genious Web Interface, but sometimes I tend to use the Mail.app that comes with MacOSX. There is some trouble going on with configuring Mail.app right, that there are no dublicates of … Continue reading →

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Building libquicktime on Mac OSX

Posted on June 1, 2010 by admin

Hey everyone, just because it took me the whole day to find out. I wanted to build mjpegtools + ffmpeg via darwin ports on Snow Lepard. But the building process always stopped. Darwin Port was not able to build libquicktime … Continue reading →

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Warum alle Flash hassen – und wir es trotzdem nutzen.

Posted on February 11, 2010 by admin

In letzter Zeit häufen sich die Anfragen bei unserer Firma, warum wir in noch so vielen Fällen auf Adobe Flash für das Frontend setzen. Die Technologie sei überholt – die Alternativen mit Javascript und html5 mannigfaltig und außerdem verabschiedet sich … Continue reading →

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How to handle interlaced video?

Posted on March 12, 2009 by admin

Currently I am working in some projects, where there is broadcast TV material involved. As most people working with Video-Coding know the former TV video standart is interlaced. It doesn´t matter if the Video comes from pal or ntsc – … Continue reading →

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Da Blog is geupdated

Posted on February 4, 2009 by admin

Endlich finde ich mal wieder Zeit für meine eigene Seite. Ich habe das WordPress-Theme (K2 – sehr zu empfehlen!) auf den aktuellen Stand gebracht und endlich funktioniert die Suche auch wieder. Schick! Meine Meldung, dass die Verlinkung von Facebook und … Continue reading →

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Amazon brings persistant Storage to EC2 … what next?

Posted on August 21, 2008 by admin

As you might know, I am doing a lot of crazy things with Amazons EC2 Servers + their Storage (S3) … a lot of thinking goes into cheap scaleability for startups and in my case mostly scaling streaming video infrastructure. … Continue reading →

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WordPress 2.5.1 *g* … but I hate to upgrade

Posted on April 27, 2008 by admin

So here we are – wordpress 2.5.1 I finally managed to upgrade my blog. Therefore I used a pretty cool plugin called “WordPress Automatic Upgrade” which you can find here. The Problem with WordPress installations is … you can do … Continue reading →

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NBC und ABC Inhalte mit EC2 empfangen.

Posted on February 29, 2008 by admin

Freunde der Nacht hier ein kleines HowTo am Rande. NBC und ABC stellen in ähnlicher Form der ZDF Mediathek ihren Content frei im Web zur Verfügung. Dort liegen z.B. “The Office” oder Klassiker wie das “A-Team” (gäähn) … alles in … Continue reading →

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Ich liebe Google

Posted on February 7, 2008 by admin

Google docs wartet mit einer neuen Funktion auf … Tabellen können mit wenigen Klicks in dynamische Formulare umgewandelt werden. Dafür einfach eine neue Tabelle erstellen und unter Zusammenarbeit auf “Personen einladen zum ausfüllen dieses Formulares” drücken. Jetzt kann man sich … Continue reading →

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