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OLED Keyboard updated!

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Good news everyone!

From the new FAQ on the Optimus keyboard homepage:

It’s in initial stage of production

We hope it will be released in 2006

It will cost less than a good mobile phone

It will be real

It will be OS-independent (at least it can work in some default state with any OS)

It will support any language or layout

Each key could be programmed to produce any sequence

It will be an open-source keyboard, SDK will be available

Some day it will be split (‘ergonomic’)

It will most likely use OLED technology (e-paper is sooo slow)

It will feature a key-saver

Keys will use animation when needed

I snipped out some uninteresting stuff (see their page if you still want to read them).

The most important thing is that it will get real! Weehoo! I have to save money to buy it in 2006 😉
The open source thing is also veeery nice 😉 The other things too. 😉

I am already looking forward to that shiny lightning keyboard!!!

All exams over!

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Finally all exams are over!

With the todays exam I was already ready after 45minutes what a nice feeling! I have never finished an exam in such a short time till now!

Now I go partying! Scoll!!! 😉

Only one more to go!

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The SE exam was not that hard at all. I really managed to write everything down. That was a lot of writing.

I had to write down some use cases, create a data model, create an interface for a class and that is nearly it. I am not sure how many mistakes I have done there though. That means I am not sure what grade it will be, but I have a good feeling about it.

Now there is only one more exam to go: DB. Now I will do some previous exams to get a feeling what is expected. I hope that will go smooth. Still, wish me luck. 😉

Tomorrow at this time I will probably be already drinking beer with some friends in Sinnlos. We have to celebrate that the exams are over. I am really ready for vacation! 😉

Too many Exams

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Sigh… that is a really busy week. Writing 7 exams in one week is really a mess. It sucks all your brain out. There are still 2 to go. One about software engeneering and one about DB systems. Whish me luck … I hope that I will be able to write a bit more in the blog when they are over.

Now I need a bit rest after today’s compiler exam that was really hard. I did not expect it to be such a problem. I only hope that I managed to do it well enough to get a 4 :/ I do not really want to write it once more.

After that I continue learning for the next exam. Wish me luck!

You really need Unittesting!

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Some days before I wrote about how important Unittesting is and thanks to Uwe’s Blog i got another proof.

That reminds me of writing the diff code for Diagnostics. The tests were fundamental in gaining a bit of trust in the quality of the code I have written. They triggered one bug after another… that was already in the code that I based mine on (the original code had no Unittesting or anything in the style). I only can shake my head about people not realizing how important that is.

Apropos that some days ago I told someone about Unittesting his response was really ridiculous: “writing that tests is real bloat I really do not have time to run the tests after changing one line code”. Read the article then you will understand why you will _take_ the time to run the tests! 😉

Questionable Content

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Ok … I was accidently pointed to a very nice Comic some time ago. I would like to present it today.

The name is Questionable Content. You can even find an entry on Wikipedia about it.

The story turns around Marten a frustrated music nerd, his anthromorpic PC named Pintsize and his roommate Faye.

It is pretty funny and dealing with problems finding the right person for a relationship and strange discussions about Indie Rock bands that I have never heard of.

The story is still pretty dense and not getting boring. The drawing style is pretty nice and the guy drawing it is getting all the time better. I can only forward you to it so you can make your own decision about it. But if you ask me it is pretty nice and worth reading.

Gallery and language change.

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I have decided, that because there are some people, that expressed the wish to read my blog and do not understand German or at least it is a problem for them, to change the language of this blog to English. (That is a long sentence.)

I also added some Pictures to the gallery. I took this Pictures some time ago at Sinnlos. Sinnlos is a pub really near to here where we use to go in the evening after a busy day learning stuff. 😉

Have fun reading my crappy English. I know my German is not really better. 😉