Avira Antivir premium: For weeks now, this AV scanner is managing to find false positives. I’m close to deactivating its protection. Fail, Avira, major fail. Guess I won’t buy another year of subscription, but use the competition. But maybe the IE8 compatibility is there by now? I’m not betting on it, tho.
Apple. iTunes made it [...]
Second day of (proper) classes.
Granted, we start early (0800 in the morning. Yay. I’m in need of a nap already..).
Granted, travelling from home to college can take some time (I’m up since 0600, whence me needing a nap).
Gut fuck you (general you), if you ain’t able to properly plan your travel, and show up at [...]
The Twitter/Ruby on Rails world is abuzz with the “Rails Maturity Model”.
So, curious fellow that I am, I have taken a look at the website.
And I’m left with a big “huh?”
Yes, that’s right, I have no idea what it is about. And I have the feeling that I’m not alone in this. A lot of [...]
This article has two parts: One is a bit analytical, the other is highly opinionated (so, probably more fun to read).
A bit of exposition first: Somebody did a technical presentation at a technical conference. Unfortunately, a few members took offence at the presentation. Not its contents, mind you, but the way the presentation was done. [...]
I just read an article about a testing framework called “Cucumber” (In moments like this I hate the creativity of the Ruby community. Explain this to your boss, sometime..), on the Giant Robots Smashing into Giant Robots blog.
The article, which is un-surprising good in the technical aspect, claimed that the testing framework is able to [...]
How not to get health insurance in Germany.
