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PDE team does cloning

Peter Friese — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 05:52:28 +0000

In case you wonder why the PDE team is so productive, have a look at this image:

In expectation of BugDay July 2007, the PDE team have cloned Chris Aniszczyk!

If you want to lend a helping hand on BugDay, do not hesitate - it's easy. The teams have selected some bugs which are easy to solve. Browse this list, claim a bug and provide a patch. Or, if you do not have time for debugging code and creating patches: triage some bugs.

A message for you from earth

Peter Friese — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 08:38:52 +0000

Alex Blewitt from EclipseZone posted a news entry earlier the day regarding the popularity of EclipseZone. In his post, he featured a service called GeoGreeting. GeoGreeting is using Google Maps to generate texts. Go and have a look yourself, it's cool.

The Free Software Song

Peter Friese — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 22:37:42 +0000

Looking around on youtube for "software", I found this little gem:

Summer splash

Peter Friese — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 22:19:31 +0000

If you're feeling this summer is way to hot and need to cool down try out this cute flash game. Great music, nice graphics and thrilling action - cool! Would you dare jumping down a 10 meter platform like this in real life?

The Daily .WAV

Peter Friese — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 10:32:50 +0000

Looking for some cools sounds to spice up your Windows? Have a look at The20Daily20.WAV, they've got plenty of cool sounds mainly from movies and TV shows. I found it because I was googling for a sounds featuring Marvin (the paranoid android from The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy). The Daily .WAV has quite some sounds from the "Guide" - get them here!

Curiosum.org – Create words from book covers

Peter Friese — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 07:39:29 +0000

The (german) site Curiosum.org points to AmazType, a service that creates words from books covers. The result is displayed using Flash. I have created some samples, check them out:
Java
MDA
Jesus
Bible

Generating Computer Science research papers

Peter Friese — Mon, 18 Apr 2005 11:37:43 +0000

Ever wanted to write your own Computer Science research paper, but didn't find the time? SCIgen - An Automatic CS Paper Generator can generate a random paper for you - check it out!