Archiv für März 2006

Building A Calculating Machine Using LEGO® Pieces

26. Mrz

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Look at this marvellous piece of art! It is a difference engine built from a *whole lot* of LEGO pieces. Way cool thing. Must be fun to listen to it. Reminds me of the Artihmeum, the fascinating local museum for historical calculators here in Bonn, Germany. They even have a still working instance of the Enigma cipher machine.

Feed normalizer allows ATOM syndication in Joomla

24. Mrz

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My website is now based on the Joomla content management system. I tried to syndicate a few of my friends’ blogs (Gernot Starke and Markus Voelter) in the “Blogs” menu of the website and found out that Joomla has problems with ATOM feeds – it simply cannot display them!
On the Net, I found Feed Normalizer, a nice and handy tool to convert ATOM and other feeds to RSS 2.0 which works perfectly with Joomla. It is a CGI script, it is written in Python and: it is open source! After installing Python, Feed Normalizer and Universal Feed Parser on my webserver, I can syndicate ATOM feeds, now. It still has some problems with German umlauts but that’s OK.

Architecting AndroMDA 4

22. Mrz

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At the moment, I am designing and documenting the architecture for the new release of AndroMDA. I’ll publish it as several sections of Joomla pages, each divided into several categories. As a guideline, I use the arc42 template for software architecture documentation, created by Gernot Starke and Peter Hruschka.