Hahnenkampf

Stuff to post

Carnegie Mellon University Professor, Jesse Schell on pervasive game design.

amazing talk.

Steve on Flash

Today Steve Jobs released an open letter about the relationship of Apples mobile devices and flash. Very polite and reasonable as i think. You should definitely read it if your involved with flash and/or iphone in some or the other way. Though Flash might still have a future in Desktop-Webdesigning and other branches, it is in no way going to be something we will use on smartphones regularly, just because its not intended to be used there.

read the letter here

using emacs to edit files on remote server

because emacs is awesome at doing pretty much anything you’d wish for, it even has the capability to function as a ftp or ssh client. The helper here is named TRAMP wich stands for Transparent Remote Access, Multiple Protocol. It is part of emacs 22.1 and above so you’re in good luck already having it installed. Using it is as easy as the emacs command “find file” (C-x C-f) and to remember the special syntax tramp is using. Assuming your using ssh to connect to your server you would use something like this:

/ssh:username@host.com: RET

Emacs will now prompt you for a password  and voilá, you should be accessing your remote files like they were stored on your local disk.

Note: For me, the ssh protocol didn’t work and TRAMP would hang up  all the time. I then switched using sshx wich did the trick.

Galactic Empire State of Mind

aaaaamazing!

seen at the digg reel

Drawroulette

this is so cool! Some Artist is taking drawing request on chatroulette and gives instant reply :) Some are weird, some are hilarious but always very funny ideas and stuff, check it out!

war

my favorite comic-characters Calvin and Hobbes play War and discover the truth. See the comicstrip after the click.

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search bar

This is just an internal announcement. i took the search field from the footer and whipped up a nice ajaxy shelf for it in my navigation. Since there was nothing else down there except for the copyright i deleted the whole foot area. now it’s even more minimal. The technical side is backed with jQuery, but if you really wanted to know you would already be inside of the source code ;)

i hope someone finds better use the way it is now.

fix the PNG bug in IE 5.5 & 6

To fix the Problem IE has with PNG-graphics, there are different approaches. The first one seems to be older and therefor kind of obsolete, but i’ll still link it here because it is how i got to known the other hack

PNG in Windows IE.

http://24ways.org/2007/supersleight-transparent-png-in-ie6