http://www.biskup.net/blog Thomas Biskups Random Ramblings about life, programming, roleplaying games, gizmos and everything else. Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:27:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Now it's official - my German Ph.D. equivalent has been documented and now I may call myself a "Dr.". Whew... great feeling :-) What a day! Feels even better than the day of the defense :-) http://www.biskup.net/blog/2010/02/24/dr-ing-thomas-biskup/ I love a decent conspiracy theory - and because it keeps popping up when talking to colleagues here's my personal pet believe about Google and Android. Your mileage may vary. My bet is: In at most three years Google will be giving away mobile phones for free. Including the contract so that you ... http://www.biskup.net/blog/2010/02/03/my-personal-google-android-conspiracyinat/ Most of my recent movie reviews have been... critical at best. Today we watched the match tooted movie "Avatar" by James Cameron. I was very curious about the "new 3D" technology (having been less than impressed by Hollywood's earlier attempts) and really hoped for a great movie. And what did we ... http://www.biskup.net/blog/2009/12/29/movie-review-avatar/ Yesterday we released the OpenSAGA website to the public. What's the buzz about? It's about a Java- and Spring-based web framework for which I am the project lead and principal architect and which is going to be released to the public in the first half of 2010. Let me tell ... http://www.biskup.net/blog/2009/12/19/opensaga-my-recent-business-pet-project/ Powerful stuff... really powerful stuff. Enjoy. http://www.biskup.net/blog/2009/12/15/a-song-of-serenity-peace-and-majesty/ I just added yet another blog to my growing collection of personal blogs. I have been toying with the rules for a German old school roleplaying system that I want to publish via Lulu.com at some point in Spring (as soon as I am done). In order to provide a ... http://www.biskup.net/blog/2009/11/26/yet-another-blog-about-roleplaying/ We just watched 2012 by Roland Emmerich. This movie was truly inspiring. Wanna know more? Read on. And if you work in Hollywood: Read the end of this post - 2012 provided me with an idea that will help Hollywood a lot more money than it already does and it ... http://www.biskup.net/blog/2009/11/22/movie-review-2012/ I just watched the video about the new iMac displays and was quite enthralled by the display... and then I discovered something neat at about two minutes in the video which activated some beautiful memories... ...the following picture: And I believe I know this place... it's in the Aitutaki lagoon on the ... http://www.biskup.net/blog/2009/11/14/we-were-in-an-imac-video-kind-of/ Disclaimer: This entry has been written while listening to the talk. Please forgive me any typographical or grammatical errors resulting from this approach. Agim Emruli from SpringSource and Papick Taboada from pgt technology scouting GmbH are going to present the latest news about the SpringSource dm server, especially related to Java ... http://www.biskup.net/blog/2009/11/11/w-jax-2009-springsource-dm-server-fitness-fur-die-webanwendungen/ Disclaimer: This entry has been written while listening to the talk. Please forgive me any typographical or grammatical errors resulting from this approach. Michael Johann is gowing to present JRuby on Rails and its strengths, in particular when trying to use the available Java libraries. Since I am very interested in ... http://www.biskup.net/blog/2009/11/11/w-jax-2009-jruby-on-rails-grundlagen-fur-umsteiger/