Jan
14
2010
Enjoy another day with talks about big web infrastructures @hdm-stuttgart.de!
“Wer langsam ist wird verlassen”
StudiVZ, XING und Co - Architektur und Betrieb sozialer Netzwerke
Der StudiVZ-Gründer Dennis Bemmann, der Vice President Operations XING
Dr. Johannes Mainusch und Heiko Specht, Account Manager Gomez
Deutschland geben einen Blick hinter die Kulissen großer sozialer
Netzwerke. Ergänzt wird das Programm durch Kurzvorträge von Studenten
des Master-Studiengangs Computer Science and Media.

Wann?
22. Januar 2010, 12.30 Uhr, Raum 056 (Aquarium)
Weitere Informationen
PROGRAMM
12.30 Uhr
Begrüßung und Einführung ins Thema
Prof. Walter Kriha, Studiengang Medieninformatik der HdM
12.45 Uhr
Wikimedia - Ausmessen des LAMP Stacks mit Werkzeugen
Studierende des Master-Studiengangs Computer Science and Media der HdM
13.30 Uhr
Externes Monitoring
Heiko Specht, Account Manager Gomez Deutschland
14.45 Uhr
Wer langsam ist wird verlassen - Performance großer Websites, ein Blick
hinter die Kulissen von XING
Dr. Johannes Mainusch, Vice President Operations XING
16.00 Uhr
Client-side Optimizations
Jakob Schröter, Master-Studiengang Computer Science and Media der HdM
16.30 Uhr
Skalierbarkeit, Datenschutz und Geschichte von StudiVZ - Technik und
Diskussion
Dennis Bemmann, StudiVZ Gründer
17.45 Uhr
Ende der Veranstaltung
Sep
04
2008
The Book “Deploying Rails Applications” gives an good overview and tutorials on the infrastructure needed for a successfull web project. The central tool is the domain specific language for deployment capistrano which is inspired by rake, written in Ruby by Jamis Buck and integrated with the Ruby on Rails framework.
I really liked reading this clear and progressive book by Ezra Zygmuntowicz, Bruce Tate, and Clinton Begin published by Pragmatic Programmers. The chosen analogy “moving into a new house” helps to understand why it is a good idea to automate server handling and web deployment. The main parts are
- “bootstrap subversion” chapter on version control
- hosting environments on shared and dedicated hosts.
- The chapter on capistrano is the only printed documentation on that tool by now.
Capistrano offers default deployment “tasks” for Ruby on Rails, but can be adopted e.g. for PHP Projects or admin tasks like key deployment, installation/compilation of software. Commands get pushed to servers in bash syntax via SSH in parallel. The servers can be grouped in “roles” like “web”, “db”, “all” or “most fancy customer”.
- mongrel servers
- scaling, performance
- deployment on windows

Aug
05
2008
This Linux Netbook looks amazing!
- Models “Ideapads S9″ and “S10″ cost about 320-360 EUR in .de
- From Oktober in shops
- 1GB RAM memory
- 160 GByte-Harddisk or 4 GByte SSD (Solid State Drive)
- Display is 1024 wide
- Express Card Slot
- Linux (Distro to be announced) or WinXP
Full News text in Linux Magazine Germany
This is the product picture you can see in the News http://www.linux-magazin.de/content/view/full/24797

Aug
04
2008
I found a nice text called The Researcher’s Bible by Alan Bundy (not Al Bundy for sure). He wrote this document about reading & writing skills, finding a decent topic, common pitfalls.
This is a shorter one How to write an Informatics Paper.
Alan Bundy seems to know what he is talking about and was Head of the Division of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, 1998-2001. Students like him, they wrote this Liber Amoricum:

Jul
30
2008
Some guys from the HdM Stuttgart did a nice TV documentation on “the” Web 2.0:
- barcamping
- Web 2.0 Expo Berlin
- Interviews (partially english) with
- and you won’t believe it: economic background
The film was sponsored by dmc, Cisco & Otto, broadcasted in german TV on 3sat and ZDF. It will be “reloaded” tomorrow 31.07.2008 13.30h on ZDF-infokanal.
Have a lot of fun!
Links Background
Links Stream

Jul
17
2008
This nice litte thingy ASUS eeePC rocks. The new “netbook” *buzzz* trend.
No Setup needed, the pre installed Linux in a stripped down Xandros Distribution. I was using the internal webcam 3 Minutes after the first boot, inside the shop :). Not too bad, compared to the session I had with my Orininal Lenovo Think Pad “ready for Vista” pre installed Vista Business Laptop…
285 EUR street price in .de, graphical WiFi Configuration Tool / Wizard, 3 USB 2.0, Skype, Media Player…

The only 4 things you need to know about this netbook
- If the sound gets to low open the console and adjust
$ alsamixer
- The black colored netbook has the same price as the fresher looking white one, MacBook fans might be confused…