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Friday, May 31, 2013
IoT: Zürich City Walkshop

Last week I took part in IoT Zurich's city walkshop. Put simple, we went around the city making observations about various types of sensors collecting data about people and the environment, what kind of data was being collected and how open to public access these collections of data can be.

Regardless of the fact that it was raining frogs, the walkshop was very informative and quite a lot of fun. =) We even did a bit of snooping into CCTV feeds from various stores and such… ;) Looks like Zurich is quite a smart city, but as to how accessible the data is in general…. I think some work needs to be done in that direction.

In case anyone would like to look into the rout we took, here it is. Definitely worth checking out. And here you can find everything about the walkshop.

And here's our little group….

Labels: Activities, Electronics, Events, Fun, Learning, Technology, Zürich

Friday, November 30, 2012
Zürich's Language Exchange

Here's something I'm currently enjoying being a part of: "Zürich's Language Exchange". As the name suggests, it's a group/activity all about learning and practicing languages. So far we've been focused on German, seeing that it's obviously the biggest interest around here, but hopefully in time other languages will be added to the menu also.

So if you're living anywhere in the Zürich vicinity and are interested in practicing German or languages in General, check us out. =)

Labels: Friends, German, Languages, Learning

Saturday, August 15, 2009
Poseidon Oddness

So on my quest to learn some more D, I tired a few different IDEs and so far I like Poseidon best. It’s very nice and comfy to use open source IDE written with DWT. The only thing about it that gave me some trouble to start with, was that even though I had introduced the correct path to DMD and DMC, I would still get an “Wrong DMD path” as soon as I tried to compile some code. After a bunch of playing around and trying different things, I did find the solution, but I can’t say that I actually understand the “why” of it. Basically all I had to do was to not include the “bin” folder in the path. And that was that, problems solved!

I also found this little debugger called Ddbg that works nicely with Poseidon. And out of pure curiosity, I also got me this ebook. Will start reading through it soon enough.