break even…
It is done so far. Portfolio, résumé and this blog has been filled up with a lot of stuff I did within the last years concerning my fields of interest. After all, it was quite an interesting journey, also because I almost forgot some nice projects of mine.
I hope I could arouse interest in the things I like to do or even provide inspirations. If you have any thoughts or ideas to share, please drop me a line! I am looking forward to hearing from you!
flickTrick
The flickr Services API is quite amazing. So I made a little application called flickTrick using phpFlickr.
tI is capable of producing either image mosaics on the basis of public photos of a given flickr account, or it it can generate a collage as the one you can see in the header part of this page, by simply adding follow CSS to it.
background-image: url(http://svenbuschbeck.net/flickTrick/collage.php?username=sven%20buschbeck&width=500&height=200&size=square&shuffle=true&maximum=24&alpha=40);
— edit 2009/03/15 —
As creating a collage can take several seconds, I implemented a caching version. It firstly returns the last image stored for the given parameters and then creates a new image. This version can be accessed by using “fast-collage.php” instead of “collage.php”.
androids are taking over!
Seeing those new touch screen enabled smartphones with the new android platform. This seems to be a complete operation system based on a Linux kernel, with real multi-tasking capabilities, an openGL library, a SDK allowing to code in Java, as you can see in the video below. This all makes me quite nervous! Google announced all public releases of android for summer this year, so I am really looking forward to the things to come, but I will not wait that long to try the SDK with doc provide already 
You will find a lot of demonstration videos out there, but I really liked one small thing done in android so far, having a context menu by performing a long click is something truely useful and nice in my eyes.