Last friday I went to the top Bundesliga clash FC Bayern - TSG Hoffenheim. The Allianz Arena was sold out and the game was exciting down to the wire. FC Bayern won the game 2:1. After the game there was a spectacular light show which was really worth seeing. I posted a short video of the light show on YouTube which you can see here… enjoy:
In the last couple of weeks I have been working a lot with different databases which I had to connect to from Java. It is sometime stressful to look up the right format of the connection string to the database. Even though, these strings should, or are meant to be standardized, they are not.
I found this very helpful website ConnectionStrings.com which lists the connection strings for open-source as well as professional commercial databases. This list includes among others, the connection strings for Microsoft SQL Server 2008, MySQL, Oracle, IBM DB2, Informix, Postgre SQL, Caché, SQLite, …
I want to share this information with you, because it can save you a lot of time, looking up those strings in tutorials or in the documentation of the different databases. Continue reading ‘SQL Connection Strings’
08.08.08: Perfect date for the release of my brother’s new mixtape. He raps in Luxemburgish and is proud to present his first album recorded with his new studio equipment. You may download
T-Way - This Way
for free from his website. Feel free to leave some feedback on this site, as well as on the official T-Way website on Myspace.
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Nach längerer Zeit gibt es dann auch mal wieder einen neuen Eintrag in meinem Blog ;). Ich war die letzte Zeit viel beschäftigt; unter anderem mit dem Verfassen der Arbeit über die es in diesem Eintrag geht:
Im Sommersemester 2008 habe ich im Rahmen des Seminars Wissenschaftler und Ethik an der TUM eine Arbeit über die Freiheit im Internet geschrieben. Hierbei habe ich besonders die Zensur im Internet untersucht und die aktuellen Zensurmaßnahmen in verschiedenen Ländern und insbesondere China analysiert.
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Freiheit im Internet - Ausarbeitung
Freiheit im Internet - Vortrag
In the last weeks I got visit from Christophe and Michel in Munich. They took a lot of pictures of beautiful Munich. Additionally there are some pictures of the Deutsches Museum and the BMW Welt.
At the end of this entry you will also find a video of people surfing on the Eisbachwelle in the English Garden.
In this blog post I will make some publicity for Michel´s project of a spellchecker for the luxembourgish language. This project now also contains a thesaurus database which you should extend by new words, if you find something missing (which you probably will, because the project is in an early stage 
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But before I will try to formulate which improvements have been made and why it is better than before I just cite Michel’s blog post:
The new version of spellchecker.lu is online. After almost exactly two years after the initial release, the free spellchecker for Luxembourgish now has a new website, a nicer logo, an improved online checker as well as a thesaurus (synonym dictionary).
The online checker features the following improvements:
- A more intuitive interface
- A wordlist (also called ”dictionary”) of almost 500′000 words and word forms
- Improved correction of common mistakes (found in instant messaging)
- Improved correction of the so-called “Eifeler Regel” which is unique to Luxembourgish
- Easy-to-use feedback form
Visit spellchchecker.lu for more information.
I am not going to blog about how amazing Munich is (not yet, but I will do so in the next weeks). I just want to share some tunes with you. I captured them this afternoon in the English Garden. The musicians are a band somehow and they were playing some kind of jam session. The music itself was not that great, but the mood of the musicians as well as the listeners was wanton.
