Almost two years passed since my last post to this blog in April 2008 – oh boy! But the time has been quite exciting as I got married, completed my PhD, and took a new job back in Germany. Anyway, I am still working in the same area of interest and can thus continue on…
I have given my Turbogears meets IMDb webprogramming and scripting lecture again and produced a little video for it. You can see me getting the project to run on a vanilla machine (Python 2.5 and easy_install already installed) in less than two minutes. The video also shows a quick walk-through of the browser-based user interface,…
My former course of study “Medieninformatik†(Media Informatics) at Hochschule Harz just celebrated its 10 years jubilee on the 10th of November 2007. I had been invited to give a talk about Pervasive Gaming and it was a great pleasure to come back to the place where my academic career started and to see so…
We (the artist from Active Ingredient, Capra and me from MRL) recently went to Tampere / Finland to collect the “Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Award 2007” for the heartrate-based game Heartlands (previously known as ‘Ere be Dragons). The judges said “Heartlands (‘Ere Be Dragons) lets us discover a world on top of reality at the rhythm…
I recently gave two guest-lectures at Nottingham University on web-programming using TurboGears. The first lecture was a general introduction to Model-View-Controller web-programming using TurboGears. The second lecture was more practical: I wanted to present a full mini-application and show the students how it was built. And I also wanted the application to be at least…
26.02.2007, 12:20: Venture, Tongue and View just created the first offspring of Lovecity. Their name is Silly. Welcome new citizen!
A child is born: Lovecity, our location based mobile phone game, is up and running and participants are starting to play. Today we received about 250 SMS from players, including some from ourselves. The last weeks have been a painful but highly rewarding time. I am extremely grateful to work with such a talented and…
I kept this log of my TurboGears installation process on my Windows XP Pro machine. ~19:20: visited webpage “www.turbogears.org” 19:25 – 19:28: installed running “tgsetup.py” with an existing Python 2.4.2 added c:\python24\scripts to the path 19:31: ran “tg-admin info” started writing this notes-file 19:36: started to follow the “getting started” tutorial at http://docs.turbogears.org/1.0/Wiki20/Page1?action=show&redirect=1.0%2FGettingStarted 19:37: “easy_install…
I just stumbled across the japanese (?) Academic Ubiquitous InfoDB which clearly summarizes our Ubicomp 2006 paper. Cool, if only I could read those unfamiliar signs.
As part of the Exurban Noir workshop at the Ubicomp 2006 conference, I spent a day out in Orange County. Here is a description of what had been prepared for us: Group 4: Private Investigations and boats Guide: Rob W. “Robert spent 30 years as a federal agent, training in Washington DC. He has been…