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”.

» try it (alpha version) »

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.