Archive October 2013

Sony A7R Hands-On. Sounds very good. Only the price ... (and the fact that it's another new system for which you need new optics, which are then made by Zeiss ...)

Google Apps Script — Google Developers. Interesting - JavaScript scripting for Google Apps like GMail or GDocs and so. Doesn't look so uncool and now also has an Eclipse plugin to be able to edit the scripts offline.

Roundcube - Free and Open Source Webmail Software. Thanks to NSA, one starts to think again whether one does not want to handle mail oneself. Ok, one really does not want to, because sorting spam is no fun, but well, if one does want to, this might be a somewhat more modern variant of webmail solutions. In addition, one can integrate it into Owncloud via an app. Although this is really just an iframe integration - so do not expect to be able to use your address book together or something like that. Personally, I will probably stick with pushing my mail through Google and letting the NSA sort my spam. But contacts and calendars could soon end up on my owncloud. Even the file sync has become really good in the latest versions.

Drawing Attention : Daily MTG : Magic: The Gathering. Great article about what card draw in Magic the Gathering actually is and how to deal with it. Why is the game structured the way it is, what influence do the different colors have on card draw and how important are cards compared to other resources such as life points?

Scala Implicits - Not to be feared. Nice slide deck explaining what Scala Implicits are used for and why they make sense. Since Implicits are a feature that is often misunderstood outside the Scala community, it might be well worth taking a look.