Postings by Mathias in January 2009
Priceless...
Interesting how German computer scientists use their office hours: Elements of an EmotionML 1.0.
<emotionml xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2008/11/emotionml">
<emotion>
<category set="humaneDatabaseLabels" name="Amusement"/>
<intensity value="0.7"/>
</emotion>
</emotionml>
Found at plasmasturm.org.
First Birthday
Today we celebrated Marc-André's first birthday.
Obviously my parents and siblings joint the party, they just live some few kilometers away, but to our great pleasure also Ulrike's parents took the long trip from Baden-Württemberg to be with their youngest grandchild. Marc quickly realized this is a special day, and that this day was about him. Well, no wonder with all the gifts ...
GtkBuilder based Plugin System
Seems like GtkBuilder is extremly useful to build efficient plugin systems:
The prettyness of this system is, that it only loads the plugin when some related action is activated:
Implementing this was straightforward. I am pretty sure that I've reinvented some wheel.
Awful Leaving
What an awful leaving: First that guy risks the future of his companies and more importantly his employes by massive gambling, and then he commits suicide instead of helping to properly sell his now bancrupt companies.
Updated: Switched to political correct wording. Calling someone a "super asshole" sidetracks reader's attention.
