sociolog - Your trail across social media

A tool that tracks my activities across all social media platforms.
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Visited countries

A nice tool to play around - because it’s nice to see where you’ve been and because it’s a nice piece of JS:

visited countries

visited countries

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SiteWeightWatcher - keeps your website slim

Good software developers test their stuff. And the TDD (Test Driven Development) addicts are maniacs when it comes to testing. Those guys usually think in code, be it Java, Python, nodeJS, you name it. TDD means you write tests first, then you code just as much as it takes to …

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Beautiful websites

A list of sites I like - might be outdated... 😉
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Adding Search to a static site

So now I have a static site that is generated by jBake. So far so good. But what’s a site without a search? Search is a must. So how do we add search functionality to a static site? Easy: We use the search giants Custom Search functionality ;)

These are …

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Playing with Highcharts

Today I discovered Highcharts: A tool to easily create charts online. It actually lets you create the chart on their website (you litteraly need less than 5 minutes!) and publish it from there.

This is the mileage (or would you say kilometreage?) of my Vespa since I bought it:

Highcharts

The …

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Zipf Mystery

No real content from me, but a meme I discovered and I felt I need to remember:

And the guy is now definitely on my watch list ;)

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Playing with JavaScript

I’ve been playing around with HTML & JavaScript. And Geometry is just it ;)

Unfortunatly the script won’t render here, nso I just show you the code:

<div id="c" onload="Draw()"></div>

<script>
  var c = document.getElementById("c")
  var ctx = c.getContext("2d")
  var cw = (c.width = 600),
    cx …
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How I moved to GitHub & JBake

* This page is ~~under construction~~ unfinished… *

First: It’s not my invention! Many did it before, there are lots of description out there. It still took me some time ;)

This and this was the most inspiring source and easiest explanation (that gives confidence ;) ).

Setup

So this is the overall setup …

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Rex Hotel in Saigon

The first one to mention it to me was my father in law (Danke Henry!). He said: “When you go to HCMC, do you stay in the famous Hotel Rex?”. I had never heard about it, but he told me about the Americans staying there during the American War (that …

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