eric fehse tumble log

Welcome to the third incarnation of my homepage.

In my professional life, I am a usability engineer for the german branch of swiss based Zühlke Engineering in Eschborn (Frankfurt). Previously I spent nine years as an Interaction Designer and Web Developer at a subsidiary of Siemens AG that developed networked applications for the area of industrial automation.

The previous versions of this home page were basically a blog with a collection of links that I collect using delicious. Over time I got to realize that I'm not that much of a blogger.

But I like to tinker with Django, the web framework for perfectionists with deadlines, I collect lots of links, some of which I deem interesting enough to share, and I also happen to read a lot of books.

So I decided to jump ship and convert this online presence to a tumble log that presents the things I find interesting in chronological order. The books come from goodreads the tweets from, well, Twitter. And if I ever write an article, it also gets its place in the tumble log.

All entries are being collected from the web using RSS feeds (and with the help of the universal feedparser). The tumble log itself is based on an excellent writeup by Ryan Berg that needed only minor tweaking. The tags are realized using django tagging. All in all, very little code was needed to put this together.

I also have a somewhat more serious web project over at www.glosorna.de, my Swedish-German online dictionary and vocabulary trainer aimed at german speakers learning Swedish (like myself). It now features more than 7000 vocabulary entries. All entries have a level (basic, advanced, specialized), and a number of tags associated with them. For registered users, the application 'remembers' which entries were trained and offers three different training methods based on that information (oldest, lowest score, random).