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Spore & SecuROM

By Yashima, on September 10th, 2008

Amazon is too fast. The game was ordered and only hours later we found out that it is one of the games that infects your computer with the malware that is SecuROM. By that time it was already sent out and we could not cancel the order anymore. On Amazon.de and Amazon.com the game . . . → Read More: Spore & SecuROM

Drama

By Yashima, on July 28th, 2008

I was once of the opinion that drama was typical of my social adventuring in World of Warcraft guilds.

I was naive to think it wouldn’t happen elsewhere. I am noticing that writing emails or answering questions is taking longer and longer. Only this time … I am one of the people involved in . . . → Read More: Drama

Can’t test this?

By Yashima, on July 22nd, 2008

After a most unproductive chase after a stupid programming error – tab completion for imports in groovy/eclipse is just not good because eclipse won’t tell you afterward that you accidentally imported another class that now changes the type of your parameter and you can spend hours trying to find that one … “MethodMissingError” thank . . . → Read More: Can’t test this?

Rückblicke

By Yashima, on June 19th, 2008

Nachdem ich heute mein M’era Luna T-shirt anhabe und wir schon länger über Karlsruher Diskos, DJ Mozart und schwarzgekleidete Leute geredet haben, habe ich soeben nochmal den alten Bericht über das M’era Luna 2004 gelesen. Ein wirklich denkwürdiges Festival und der Bericht hat ein Zweit Lesen durchaus verdient.

Dieses Jahr wirds wohl nix mit . . . → Read More: Rückblicke

I like me some compact code

By Yashima, on June 3rd, 2008

Lately Groovy has been the language of choice for my scripting needs.

And slowly I am finding out how to do things in a groovy way instead of relying on shell commands that don’t always work as they would in a shell environment:

“scp user@host:*.java .”.execute()

is just not the same as executing the . . . → Read More: I like me some compact code