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bwilmsmann

  1. Open-sourcing more of my stuff: Twoice, a 'Twitter for voice messages' prototype post.ly/7312w
  2. Topicalizer - an information extraction suite - now open source post.ly/72iat
  3. I've open-sourced my Topicalizer information extraction tools: github.com/BjoernKW/Topic…
  4. Butts In Seats Management post.ly/5pLlQ
  5. Nice web design: oatv.com I especially like the scrolling effect on the OATV characters under oatv.com/not.html
  6. @roybahat Tests for small units like methods could work. Code would've to validate against those. No catch-all solution, though.
  7. @roybahat You're on to something. Problem to be solved though: How can code be broken into small enough pieces and how can it be validated?
  8. Fixing Work post.ly/4gaVv
  9. I’m going to Dream Theater @ Mitsubishi Electric Halle. songkick.com/concerts/10319…
  10. gefällt Sign of the Times von Queensrÿche bei Ping itun.es/iLG3f8 #iTunes
  11. Hilarious: bit.ly/rKLdBu a. These guys think waterfall is new b. They still think you can actually create software using this method
  12. "SAP is how Lucifer interacts with our world." : bit.ly/u3rSoZ
  13. Hilarious Paul Graham quote on Perl: "Perl may look like a cartoon character swearing ..."
  14. An SEO expert walks into a bar, bars, pub, public house, Irish pub, drinks, beer, wine, liquor ... via @tomwalsham
  15. Scaling doesn't matter. Ever. Period. If all those people worrying about scaling built sth useful instead the world'd be a much better place
  16. Very cool concept for password input validation: mattt.github.com/Chroma-Hash/
  17. Some recruiters can't event get the name of technologies right. It's not Groovy on Grails, Grail or The Grail, it's Grails.
  18. Wer hat die deutschen Trikots bei der WM 2011 verbrochen? Immerhin kein Comic Sans, aber Action Man Regular ist da fast genau so schlimm.
  19. Insightful quote from techcrunch.com/2011/07/02/whe… : What problem does Google+ solve?. The problem that Google didn’t buy Twitter 3 years ago.