Author Archives: Dyrathror

Blog enhanced with WPTouch

Since I am one of the guys playing around with an iPhone now I thought it might be a good idea to make my blog a little bit more readable on the iPhone and other PDAs. After a small research … Continue reading

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Buying an iPhone in China

Lately it was the time that I had to replace my old PDA with something new because I dropped it one time too much on the floor. Because we had business in Shanghai and found a shop with “original” iPhones … Continue reading

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The Nonsense of Software Patents

I am Software Developer and my opinion is that Software Patents are not only Nonsense but also counterproductive! There are not infinitely many ways to program something. Computer Science Theory already shows that for many problems there are only few … Continue reading

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Back after a Break

I didn’t write anything for quite a while. But now I am back 🙂 My break had two reasons. The really good one is that I became father of a little daughter named Thalea in the mid of July. Naturally … Continue reading

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Ruby Objects, Class-Objects and MetaClass-Objects

After a while of evaluation I started over programming mainly in Ruby about two month ago. Long time ago I learned for a short while object orientation programming in Smalltalk-80 but soon started to use C++, first with the AT&T … Continue reading

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