un|we|sen

Rails Routing is Broken

unwesen — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:49:37 +0000

This article is part 1 of 1 in the series Railings on Derailed RailsSo, after having worked with Ruby on Rails for a few weeks, I can now safely say that it doesn’t live up to the hype. Yes it does some things very nicely, which I appreciate. But it also does some things very, [...]

This is original content from un|we|sen, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Germany License. Please report any unlicensed use of this content to the author. Tag: unwesen-1c3e4905d6ae15e8d00a5aee2bb6c4c0

Rails Routing is Broken

Blast from the Past: Joost

unwesen — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:21:53 +0000

Not that long ago, granted. But I can’t help but think it’s worthwhile reminding people that Hulu grew in the fertile soil that Joost created1. This list of videos we produced at Joost at some point or another is far from complete. But here’s one gem that greeted every beta user for a while, that I [...]

Blast from the Past: Joost

The “punk” in Cyberpunk

unwesen — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 10:42:57 +0000

I’ll be the first to admit that re-posting comments I’ve made on other people’s blog post is a cheap thing to do. Yet that’s exactly what I’m going to do here. Over at the internet crashed, there was a post asking to discuss the “punk” aspects of cyberpunk; but the question was phrased loosely enough that [...]

The “punk” in Cyberpunk

Bethesda vs. BioWare

unwesen — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 20:07:54 +0000

Yesterday I said I might blog about balancing issues in Dragon Age: Origins. I think I’ll not only do that, but draw comparisons to other games as well. We1 have been playing DA:O for a while now, and while we were initially drawn into the game very much, and like it a lot overall, we’ve [...]

Bethesda vs. BioWare

Dragon Age: Disasters

unwesen — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 20:06:26 +0000

When your parents come visiting and your weekend is basically gone, and you have a few hours left, and your ankle is recovering from being dislocated, what do you do? Play video games, of course! So a few weeks ago I got Dragon Age: Origins from the bargain bin. Both my wife and I enjoyed playing [...]

Dragon Age: Disasters

Dislocated Ankle

unwesen — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 19:53:33 +0000

Ah, I so rarely blog about things that happen in my life. How sad. Well, strictly speaking there’s a reason for that: I don’t want to. But when I broke that unwritten rule of not blogging about my life some 2.5 years ago when I broke my toe, that was not only of interest to my [...]

Dislocated Ankle

Google Wave Dead

unwesen — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 08:08:03 +0000

It’s only been a few months since Google Wave came out of beta, and now it’s being killed off. (…) Wave has not seen the user adoption we would have liked. We don’t plan to continue developing Wave as a standalone product, but we will maintain the site at least through the end of the year [...]

Google Wave Dead

The Bane of Software Quality Assurance

unwesen — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 15:54:13 +0000

For most of my professional career, I’ve been one of the class of software engineers that don’t mind dealing with their QA department too much. In my experience, engineers and testers clash more often than not — which is probably largely to do with looming deadlines the tense situations that result from them more than [...]

The Bane of Software Quality Assurance

New(-ish) Battle.net Terms – Big Brother, anyone?

unwesen — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 08:57:26 +0000

So I figured I’d cave in to the hype surrounding StarCraft II to log in to my Battle.net account, and see whether there is an OS X download, and how much that would be. I was greeted with new terms and conditions for my account that I had to agree on. There were two boxes, one [...]

New(-ish) Battle.net Terms – Big Brother, anyone?

Deutsche Telekom gegen Netzneutralität

unwesen — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 09:32:57 +0000

Der Titel sagt eigentlich alles, der rosa Riese mag Netzneutralität nicht. Ein Glueck lebe ich im Ausland und kann gar kein Kunde mehr von denen sein. Sorry about the German post: it links to a German language article, and there’s not much point in trying to translate everything. The gist of it is that Germany’s largest [...]

Deutsche Telekom gegen Netzneutralität