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Meritocracy – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Martinique – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sun, beaches, pleasure, a Linux geek around, … – Martinique is calling!!!!

Berlin Paris covered by Lufthansa bonus miles, Paris Martinique for less than EUR 400 through swoodoo.com.

I’m almost on my way.

WikiLeaks founder cleared of sex allegations – Yahoo! News

What a surprise!!!! But actually from how bad it was made, you can see, it wasn’t made up by the FBI or the CIA but rather by amateurs.

Rykestrasse Synagogue – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wikipedia says it’t Germany’s largest synagogue. I was surprised to read this. I had not thought so.

This was another rather enlightening time at the synagogue. Will have to go their more often. Two cantors and a choir, perfect. Pulled me away from rather sad things happening around me.

After the concert those sad things started getting hold on me again, but only slowly.

I received another rather nice e-mail from one of the Haskell book authors (JG), that I had asked recently to be a trainer with my Haskell courses in Berlin, and that was rather enjoyable as well. We will see, how much demand there is for topics like Haskell, Scala, and GAE in Germany. If there is, than have a look at my specific web page in English resp. in German!

Oracle Database 10g Express Edition

The need for a new helper script in Perl arose recently. I called it JHschedule_courses.pl.

I wanted to create weekly events,

• given a start date,
• given the number of weeks,
• given the offset of the registration deadline,
• and given the offset of the end date of that event.

The output of JHschedule_courses.pl would be

• the start date within any such week,
• the respective registration deadline,
• and the respective end date.

This output would serve as a here document to a loop within a shell script, which in turn also uses an XML template (as another here document within that loop) and which would create an XML structure for any such event as described above, but obviously with some constant text included. The entire XML structure would (after some tweaking) get uploaded to a calendar system.

I was pretty sure, I could achieve this functionality using Steffen Beyer’s Date::Calc (esp. Add_Delta_YMD), which I have been using in variouses contextes for many years now. And now it’s done. Thanks a lot to Steffen Beyer! Do you have an Amazon wishlist?