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  Albums added to the tumble log

  Today I rounded out my tumble log by adding a stream of albums.

  Under my usual nickname of m3mitsuppe I have been a casual user of last.fm for a long time, mostly for the listening statistics and charts it provides, not so much for the social element of the site.

  Now, using last.fm’s excellent api, I have my web app periodically fetch my last week’s top albums in order to display them on the tumble log. Hope you enjoy it!

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  Article added on 2012-01-24
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  Zühlke develops XING app for windows phone

  Last week, Zühlke (the company I work for) finally published the new app that allows XING users to access the social network using their windows phone. The result of a cooperation between Microsoft, XING and Zühlke, the app shows how a compelling user experience can be created when taking the guidelines and controls offered by Microsoft’s new Metro design language as a starting point. A good example is the “at a glance” section of the home screen, where six “live tiles” give a dynamic impression of the current activity in the network.

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  Article added on 2011-07-08
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  www.glosorna.de - Swedish-German vocabulary trainer

  After a long time in the making: here it is, the new Swedish-German vocabulary trainer.

  While the first version was basically just a dictionary containing my own private and rather incomplete collection of vocabulary entries, I have now added vocabulary training functionality. Some of the features include:

  • User registration (done with django-registration)
  • Classification of vocabulary entries by three levels (basic, advanced, special vocabulary) and by tags.
  • The user can add arbitrary cards to his favorites list (from the search results or during training).
  • Flexible selection of cards to be trained:
    •  Level
    •  Favorites
    •  Tags
    • Cards with lowest score or cards that have not been trained for the longest time
  • The training scheme is based on the concept of “vocabulary stacks”.
  • During training, each vocabulary card is assigned a score according to how well the user remembered the card.

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  Article added on 2010-03-09
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  The B-List: Standalone Django scripts

  An excellent writeup of how Django components can be used in standalone scripts. You may set DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE, use setup_environ() or settings.configure(). Each method is discussed with pros and cons. Even more wisdoms in the comments.

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  Article added on 2009-01-25
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  Django Pony - Magic that can't be removed

  

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  Article added on 2008-09-16
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  Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds

  

  This word cloud is based on the text of my “about” page and was done using the wonderful wordle application.

  Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

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  Article added on 2008-07-24
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  New Django App: German-Swedish Dictionary

  As I wrote in my previous post, I’m currently busy learning Swedish. One result of this endeavour is an ever growing collection of swedish words in my vocabulary program. And because there is no really usable online dictionary for swedish and german, I decided to put my collection online, in the form of a very simple web application.

  The dictionary is of course by no means comprehensive - it’s just my private collection of words and expressions. I tried to follow some rules when entering the words, and I plan on extending the dictionary as my learning progresses (and I read more books).

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  Article added on 2008-04-21
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  Learning a foreign language by reading

  he probably most important activity during language acquisition is listening to and speaking in the language. There’s just no substitute for that if you want to become a fluent speaker yourself.

  That means: you will not be able to learn a foreign language by reading alone. But it can be very effective. If you enjoy reading as much as I do, all you need is a basic vocabulary and an understandig of the main grammatical concepts of the language. Then find a book you know you will like.

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  Article added on 2008-02-01
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  Fotografie: Christina Kratzenberg

  The home page of Christina, a photographer based in Stuttgart, Germany, which I implemented using Django as a kind of “training project”. The clear and simple design does a good job of presenting Christina’s work.

  

  I’m still amazed how easy it was for me to pick up everything I needed to implement this.

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  Article added on 2007-11-10
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  National Blog Posting Month featuring a Django series on The B-List

  November is ‘National’ Blog Posting Month - every blog author is encouraged to write a blog post each day. Sounds pretty impossible to me, especially if you want quality besides all the quantity.

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  Article added on 2007-11-10
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  CleverCSS

  This is a very cool markup language that aims at augmenting CSS by introducing nested structures, variables, evaluations and more. It comes in the form of a python library that can be used to generate plain old css from the more concise clevercss source.

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  Article added on 2007-11-10