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Bit of a different thing - Paris Air Show 2009

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Since February I do an internship at EADS Germany in the department of Defence Electronics. There, I hear much about aircrafts the company builds. Therefore, I wanted to see the Euro Fighter, the A380 and also Ariane 5, the European space rocket. The Paris Air Show gave...

Lambdas in C++0x!

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The Visual C++ compiler of Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 supports the upcoming C++0x standard and therefore introduces a great new language feature -> lambda expressions.� In this article I will look at the usage of lambda expressions by converting Scheme code constru...

The almighty .NET Language - C++/CLI

Sun, 17 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT

There are two ways in C# for safely freeing resources, these are try-finally and the using-statement. Both call the Dispose Method introduced by the IDisposable Interface, ensuring that there is no resource leakage in case of an exception. In Managed C++ there exists...

From Delegates to Events

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT

A couple weeks ago I held a workshop at my university in Heilbronn. �Some people ask me why the C# programming language uses an extra keyword for events. During some discussions I tried to figure out why they had such a problem in that. What I recognized, was that they...

Hardware as a Service Invoker

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Case studies showed a quite passive usage of digital information in today�s world. Furthermore, the technological infrastructure we established is used in an inefficient way. In this article I worked out a software concept helping us to set up our personal environment of...

Distinguish to be precise

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT

In Software-Engineering everyone is typically confronted with diagrams and architectural descriptions containing circles, rectangles arrows and some plain text. Such descriptions are another representation of the organization of code in order to make software more tangib...

Mini-Languages

Sun, 01 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Last week I was at the OOP 2009 in Munich. There I met a friend with who I talked about domain-specific languages. He thought critical about this topic and the theory for him seems to be clear, but he wanted an easy to understand example of an implementation. �In this...

Me on Channel 8

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Last week, when I was at the Xtopia, I did something new; my first interview for Channel 8.I wasn’t used to that feeling.When I hold a presentation, I’m not that nervous, but last week it was different; it was challenging.But in the end it was a lot of crack...

Visions, ways, XTOPIA 2008

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Software Development is various, isn�t it? There are a lot of factors involved in a software project. You need developers who build up all the logical relationships to a whole one, then there are designers making the product attractive, and with...

A cloudy approach � SQL Data Services

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Imagine that you have your own company. Business is going on well, your enterprise grows. But what would your networking infrastructure look like? There are a lot of business challenges, like growth, flexibility, storage and innovation which needs the appropriate...