This week the lecture period for the winter semester 2013/14 ended at the TUD. I love working with students, I love tutoring them with their (Master or Diploma) thesis, and I love giving lectures. If it were different the university would be the worst working place choice for me. However, I am still happy that the lecture period is now over and that I now have more time again for the research projects.

The VICCI project is now in its last year. Now we need to bring the reached results just one step further and achieve a good presentation. We all want to show the quality of our results to everyone. The visualization work is currently in its (hopefully last) review cycle. One or two more weeks of work and it should be done. After that, I only need to do some more programming for the software infrastructure.

Additionally, of course, the preparations for follow-up projects are being made, too. We have a whole lot of open questions. The tricky part is to select a nice subset of these questions, to pack them into a realistic work package, and to convince the potential funding agency that this is worth their money. I, myself, have some very nice ideas, I thing. Hopefully I will get the chance to start the respective projects.

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I am currently trying to sort, to organize, and to prioritize my personal software projects. The one probably most important to me, at this moment, is SpringerJagd, albeit it is most likely not interesting for anyone else. Like I care.

Thus I want to focus most of my private programming time towards that project. As a first step I rewrote the front page web site of SpringerJagd: springerjagd.net

More will come …

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Once again, it is time for one of my little tools, which the world does not need (but I do). The idea is simple: think of a series of files in one directory, e.g. music files of a audio book or video files of a TV series. Every once in a while you watch/listen to one of the files and days later you do not remember, which was the last file you have seen. My tool registers to the context menu of the Windows Explorer and provides a simply way of setting a bookmark at the file in the directory. The bookmark is an empty file with the same name, additionally using an extra file name extension). The whole thing is no shell extension, but a simple, normal DotNet application which writes to the right places in the registry. Simple, not elegant, but working.

FileBookmark.zipFileBookmark.zip File Bookmark Utility
[91.2 KB; MD5: bd58a615775c9897ae82536bb678b05b; Mehr Info]

And, just because I can, here is the source code::

FileBookmark_src.zipFileBookmark_src.zip File Bookmark Utility Source Code
[60.2 KB; MD5: 84071f778ccb81b0c39101577a3fa204; Mehr Info]

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I know, I know, the end of the year is not here, yet. However, it is the last Sunday 2013 and thus it is time for a Post at the end of the year.

Reviews of a year’s events are awful, especially if the year was not that great. Well, this year was not especially bad either, but I could have been much better. At least there was one pleasant surprise shortly before Christmas (I will write more about it early next year, as soon as it gets official).

Now it is time to look at the future. It is time to make plans for 2014 and to start working on their implementation. Form a business point of view many events and ideas are coming up and I am curious to see which of them will be successful. I don’t want to write too much about them yet, only, that I got ideas for research projects and funding project applications. When enough of these ideas work out, then science will remain interesting for me.

Considering my private programming projects, not much has happened; and that is an exaggeration. Well, we will see what will happen on that end.

But, now I wish everyone a Happy New Year!

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