Clipping: Web 2.0 mash-up

Mal wieder eine wirklich höchst interessante neue web2.0 Technik. Quasi die Idee der Code Snippets übernommen für das Web. Man kann bestimmte Teile einer Website herauspicken.

clipped from www.spiegel.de Die CSU-Rebellin Gabriele Pauli, die Edmund Stoiber vom Thron stieß, will nicht mehr nur Landrätin sein, sondern strebt nach höheren Weihen. Macht sie sich das Leben selber schwer? Für ein Hochglanz-Magazin posierte sie jetzt als Fotomodell - mit Latex-Handschuhen. Von Philipp Wittrock mehr... Mit einem Gehalt von 13,2 Millionen Euro war Deutsche-Bank-Chef Josef Ackermann im vergangenen Jahr erneut der Spitzenverdiener unter den Dax-Vorständen. Aber auch das Gehalt anderer Konzernchefs fiel üppig aus. SPIEGEL ONLINE zeigt die Liga der Großverdiener. Von Michael Kröger mehr... [ Forum ]

Drawing for a New Job

My Wacom grafic tablet has finally arrived and I started my drawing lessons. After training circles, lines and boxes I drawed some first elements which you can admire here. It's a start and it's really fun! But you would not believe how difficult it can be to draw a nice round circle.

Look how the hatched areas give the impression of a three dimensional ball.

My Latte Machiato glass. To draw an ellipse is really really tricky!

This Painting is called: "The Lamp - still burning".

The C# tutorials have to wait at the moment, because I have to prepare for two upcoming job interviews in the next two weeks.

Please keep your fingers crossed for me!

Excursion: Game Development

The internet…there is distraction everywhere. I don’t know how it really began. Perhaps when a colleague introduced me to Line Rider. A 1.5 MB big Macromedia game. Simple idea but it's so great!

Then…was it accidentally that I discovered XNA while browsing the sites for learning C#?. Game development in C# with XNA Game Studio Express which is based on Visual Studio Express 2005. It was like a revelation! Although my first XNA Game by following the tutorial wasn’t much more than a screensaver, it is nevertheless the first step.

And then...the same colleague introduced me to blender, an open-source software program for 3D modelling and rendering. The first tutorial wasn’t real fun (building a stupid table) but the example of Gus in the Wiki-book really impressed me.

Rendered Image of the Walking Gus

So I will try some 3D modelling…don’t games need 3D modells?But to become a 3D-Modeller you need to be an artist. You cannot model what you cannot draw! Since some time I possess a book “Learning to draw”. So yesterday I downloaded different graphics software (there are two kinds: raster and vector based) for examination: Corel Draw, Gimp, Macromedia Freehand, Paint.NET (written in C# and open source!) and of course Photoshop. I know…I should begin with drawing on plain old paper to train my skills but I made a compromise: Yesterday I ordered a used Wacom Graphire3 for only 49,90 Euro.

My new Wacom Graphire Tablet

So, isn’t it great when hobby and profession complement one another?