Still chilling near the pool…

After a long party night at lapa yesterday, we slept really long. Lappa is a really crowded quarter in the center of rio. People from the favelas, students and poor kids are dancing in the streets. The police was also all around. Normally I try to avoid these kind of amusement park things both when i’m travelling and also in cologne. But I didn’t had a chance to escape and after some really strong caipirinhas we found ourselves dancing at a furniture reseller.

Kai and me fixed the wifi/dsl configuration today, so we can work outside near the pool now. -> New plaze! or even better look at the map.

Some small apes are visiting us everyday.

Plane ride from D

Speaking of new plazes. I’m going to Rio for the next 3 weeks. I will try to attend here

go here

see something like this

go to this festival with

• Arcade Fire
• Kings of Leon
• M.I.A.
• Kings of Convinience
• Strokes

and look for this album

meet S1mone

and finally have a lot of spass together with Kai, who recently won a MTV Video Award in Brazil for his Marcelinho da lua (10 MB) video.

Presentation style influenced by Lawrence Lessig and Dick Hardt . See Dick’s OSCON presentation about Identity 2.0

Another Einkaufstour…

It’s all about Andy Smith from flock. He wrote both a python wrapper for flickr and upcoming.org and later yahoo acquired those companies. Read his blog entry. What’s about a plazes wrapper?

rio, eu vou chegar, PORRA!

Read Citizen428 on the Developers Notebook - Mono

I also have a copy of this book. It’s definitly one of the best ways to get into mono. By the way I recently got a copy of Agile Web Development with Rails, which is kind of similar in fastly diving into the topic. Speaking of diving, Dive into Python is also very great and it’s for free.
So enough to read for the next months? No, just read a few pages and start coding!

By the way, my mono - plazes project is still on ice. Currently I’m using a ruby script on my server to get information about my plazes and on my desktop I’m still running the old launcher. Anyone working on a GTK GUI?

I’m spontaneously leaving for the What the hack! conference. It’s a big outdoor hacker event in the netherlands. Poorly nobody is coming with me, but look out for some coverage here on my blog.
You can follow me via plazes.

For a complete coverage check out technorati tag ‘whatthehack’.

Update: Molly joined me within an hour, that was even more spontaneous. We are already there tagging plazes and flickr pictures. Hopefully our tent is not drowning tonight.

Currently I’m working on a new Gnome Plazes Client. Here is a first shot.
It’s written in C# and based on the Mono framework. I’m having fun building my first Gnome app and I will of course follow the Gnome Human Interface Guidelines. Login works and there is already a tray icon and some more nice features in my head.

By the way. I didn’t blog about the new Plazes feature. You can tag your flickr photos with geo information via Plazes now. Just go to your plaze (or mine) and click on ‘tag your photos on flickr’, type in your flickr account information and select all the photos you took at this plaze. I can’t wait for german google maps.

All my photos with geo information

It took some time to get it working. Hopefully the diff of Stefan Haischt will be integrated in the geo plugin soon.

What am I talking about? Stefan Haischt added plazes support to the geo plugin for wordpress. So now every new post has information about the plaze I’m posting from. Either the information comes automatically from plazes, just in case I’m logged in to plazes, or manually defined by latitude/longitude.