Stitch 2.0

New tool

Stitch 2.0 — 2004-07-19T09:47:40Z

Hi there,

finally i have decided what kind of software to write for the channel9 Contest.
I will do an secure IM. It will encode the messages on the fly with runtime generated public and private keys. Each message will use a new, randomly generated, keypair. So even if one of the keys is spied on, you won't be able to use it, cause there will be a new key every time!

Good evening, sorry fornot...

Stitch 2.0 — 2004-07-09T22:22:02Z

Good evening,

sorry fornot posting in a while, but I have been pretty busy lately.

Right now I'm at a collegues wedding. It is unbelievable that a guy, one year younger than me, is getting married. Well, actually has gotten married. Ubelievable....

Well, anyway....it's a great party, and I'm pretty drunk.
I gotta admit, there's one lovely aitress here....
She's got hair to her shoulders and if I drink a little bit more, I will probably ask her out.. but thats just thoughts at the moment....I'll let you know, if I dare!!

So, see ya all tomorrow....

Lyrics to Bye, Bye Mr. CIO guy

Stitch 2.0 — 2004-07-04T21:03:40Z

I Have just found the lyrics to the song I posted earlier.

DevHawk was so kind as writing them down:
Mr. CIO Guy - A Speculative Retrospective

Lyrics by Pat Helland
Sung to "American Pie" by Don McLean

Performed at TechEd Amsterdam 2004 by Pat Helland
with Don Box on Guitar and David Chappel on Keyboards

VERSE 1
A long, long, time ago…
I can still remember how that software made the business play.
And my dream that I held so dear,
And worked on for my whole career,
Was that the information could pay.
But Harvard reached into its quiver,
And to the boardroom did deliver.
Cutbacks on our spending,
The IT boom was ending…
I can’t remember if they laughed,
As our department was de-staffed,
And lost the knowledge of our craft,
The day that I-T died.
So…

CHORUS
Bye, Bye Mr. CIO-Guy,
Gonna outsource every resource ‘til the business runs dry.
And MBAs count the beans going by and singing
This’ll make the P-E go high!
This’ll make the P-E go high!

VERSE 2
Did you write for M-V-S?
And transactions for C-I-C-S?
Using V-TAM to make it go…
And do you believe in middleware?
With objects calling here and there,
And can you teach me all about O-O?
Well I know that you’ve got Java-Juice
Cuz I saw your beans go flying loose
You loved J-2-E-E…
And thought you could port for free!
I was an engineer writing to dot-NET
Using V-B as my Erector Set,
When I saw there was trouble yet,
The day that I-T died…
I started singing…

CHORUS
Bye, Bye Mr. CIO-Guy,
Gonna outsource every resource ‘til the business runs dry.
And MBAs count the beans going by and singing
This’ll make the P-E go high!
This’ll make the P-E go high!

VERSE 3
Now, it’s been years since the seed was sown
And the G-D-P fell like a stone,
But that’s not how it used to be…
When the BUNCH gave way for the Old Big Blue
Which unbundled as it got the screw
And Maynard made a toy called PDP…
And as the mainframe held the crown,
The UNIX boys just went to town
Adolescence had been spurned,
Adulthood had been earned.
And Bill read a book by Adam Smith,
Moore’s Law didn’t prove a myth,
And PC’s singed the monolith
The day that I-T died.
We were singing…

CHORUS
Bye, Bye Mr. CIO-Guy,
Gonna outsource every resource ‘til the business runs dry.
And MBAs count the beans going by and singing
This’ll make the P-E go high!
This’ll make the P-E go high!

VERSE 4
N-tier, Web-sphere, could be svelter…
Dot-Net doesn’t weigh in welter…
X-M-L ain’t parsing fast…
Standards started to amass;
The vendors flirted with impasse
And customers observed it with aghast…
Oh, to Inter-op with our heirloom
To unify and to subsume,
At first we looked askance,
Then we tried to get finance!
But the ‘counters argued ‘bout the yield
“Cut the cost” was what they squealed!
Do you recall it all congealed?
The day that I-T died?
They started singing…

CHORUS
Bye, Bye Mr. CIO-Guy,
Gonna outsource every resource ‘til the business runs dry.
And MBAs count the beans going by and singing
This’ll make the P-E go high!
This’ll make the P-E go high!

VERSE 5
Oh, and there we were all in the dumps,
The dot-COM crash had dealt its lumps
But we were ready to go again…
So come on integrate and interoperate
Invest to dis-intermediate… Then
That missive from Harvard did descend…
Oh, and as I watched them turn the page
I knew their thoughts would not be sage
There was no simple charm…
To stop that specious harm…
And as pink slips caused an exit flight
Of jobs to Bangalore’s new site
I saw Harvard laughing with delight
The day that I-T died
They were singing…

CHORUS
Bye, Bye Mr. CIO-Guy,
Gonna outsource every resource ‘til the business runs dry.
And MBAs count the beans going by and singing
This’ll make the P-E go high!
This’ll make the P-E go high!

VERSE 6
I met a girl, who wrote the news,
And I asked her for some upbeat clues,
But Esther held a big soiree…
I went down to the old raised floor,
Where the MIPS had churned those years before,
But computing had become… passé…
And loading docks had tumbleweeds,
The factories stopped, the profit bleeds,
The damage wasn’t staved off,
The I-T Staff was laid-off.
And the men that I admire least,
The MBAs trained in the East,
Ensured their salaries were increased,
The day that I-T Died…

CHORUS
So Bye, Bye Mr. CIO-Guy,
Gonna outsource every resource ‘til the business runs dry.
And MBAs count the beans going by and singing
This’ll make the P-E go high!
This’ll make the P-E go high!

They were singin’

Bye, Bye Mr. CIO-Guy,
Gonna outsource every resource ‘til the business runs dry.
And MBAs count the beans going by and singing
This’ll make the P-E go high!

Short bio

Stitch 2.0 — 2004-07-01T08:08:18Z

Since I had to write a short bio for Channel9, I decided to post it here aswell ;)

1979 - Born
1985 - first school day
1988 - first comp (Amiga 500)
1990 - second comp (Olivetti M21)
1995 - third comp (PII, 700 Mhz)
1996 - 2000 - several slow PC's
2000 - finished school
2001 - start of apprenticeship
2002 - major hardware upgrade
2004 - passed final exam
2004 - hired as Jr. .Net developer

That's all!

New version of "American Pie"

Stitch 2.0 — 2004-07-01T06:38:02Z

While surfing on Channel9, i discovered a brand-new version of Don McClean's American Pie.
The song is performed by Pat Helland on vocals, Don Box on guitar and David Chappell on piano and it's called "Bye Bye Mr CIO Guy.."

Launch...

Summer of Express

Stitch 2.0 — 2004-06-29T12:56:53Z

Microsoft has just made the Visual Studio 2005 BETA 1 Express editions available for free download.
There are currently 6 Express products available for download:

Visual Basic 2005 Express
Visual C# 2005 Express
Visual C++ 2005 Express
Visual J# 2005 Express
Visual Web Dev 2005 Express
SQL Server 2005 Express

These versions include many of the same productivity features found in Visual Studio, all streamlined to fit the needs of the non-professional Windows developer.

At the same time, the Microsoft developer community Channel 9 announced a coding contest.

Prizes are a XBox, a XBox Live! subscription for one year and a copy of Halo2.

So, what are you supposed to do in order to enter the contest?
I'll make it easy for myself and cite Channel 9 directly:

Entrants must access http://msdn.microsoft.com/express and download a version of free beta version of Microsoft Express software. The following beta versions are available for download: Visual C# 2005 Express Edition, Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition, Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition, Visual J# 2005 Express Edition, Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition and SQL Server 2005 Express Edition (collectively referred to as "Express").

Entrants must use a single version of Express to develop a "non-business" application and submit it online by following the instructions listed at http://channel9.msdn.com.express. However any entry can use a single version of Express in conjunction with SQL Server Express, but SQL Server Express is not required. Entrants may submit only 1 entry per category, and each entry must be substantially unique in content and function.

I have a pretty good idea already on what kind of application to write. It's probably gonna be some kind of project time tracking software. But I have to figure out the specs first.

Watch and learn ;)

Nice night out

Stitch 2.0 — 2004-06-30T00:39:00Z

Hi everyone,

I've been out having a great night with some of my collegues.
First we went to the Stuttgarter Weindorf in Hamburg (look at Events).
We had a couple of very tasty re- and whitewines there. ABout 8 bottles ;)
Afterwards we went to a bar called Meyer-Lansky (unfortunatly they don't have a webpage, but i actually thought of programming one ;) )
This bar sepzialises in cocktail and well, let me say I had a few ;)
So please, bear with me if my eglish schouldn't be too good. :P

If it's OK after all, sleep well, cause I know I will! And I have to be at work at 8 a.m. :(

Mail via GSM SMS

Stitch 2.0 — 2004-06-29T22:20:07Z

wow, holy jesus am I drunk. Tell you more when I get back!
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Well, well, well...

Stitch 2.0 — 2004-06-29T07:36:02Z

Time to sit down and write something again ;)

I have just finished reading a Book by Isaac Assimov called I, robot. The book has just been brought to the big screen with Will Smith. I'm looking forward to seeing the movie.

More news ;)
I've been thinking about starting a .Net Usergroup here in Hamburg. According to this website, there is supposed to be one here. But the homepage of the group is empty. And the leader doesn't reply on mails... SO..maybe there is a chance afterall.
I'll find out soon enough ;)

Let's get going

Stitch 2.0 — 2004-06-23T16:31:48Z

Alright,
here is my first entry.
Since my last blog kind of deserted, I decided to start another one. Here I have the possability to post entries via SMS. So I'll try posting more often. ;)

Let's see....

BTW: Check out my current software project at http://torrentfeed.chicagoguide.de

Nazis brutaly torturing a 23-year-old german

Stitch 2.0 — 2004-06-25T10:50:31Z

I just stumbled over this article on the net, which I simply needed to share with you:
Neo-Nazis tortured a young German in brutal way

The incident reminded of Abu Ghraib in Frankfurt/Oder (Germany), strange to say however it did not interested the media and did not reach the public.....
more in german or english (thanks babelfish).
I think it is unbelievable that anybody would do such things. And it even draws a worse picture of the media landscape here in germany...
How come nobody covered this subject?
My guess is, that nobody wanted to rehash it. Since we germans somehow seem to have a problem with our past, it's kind of understandable nobody wants to get reminded of it every day. But still... This doesn't justify the complete lack of media coverage happened here...
I mean, let me cite The Reason here:
I'm not a perfect person
there’s many things i wish i didn't do
[...]
it's something i must live with everyday
and all the pain i put you through
i wish that i could take it all away
And after all, being reminded of it everyday doesn't help much.
But this doesn't mean that I ignore the subject completely...

What do you guys think???

All kinds of .Net components

Stitch 2.0 — 2004-06-25T09:27:44Z

While surfing the net and checking my emails i received a mail containing a link to a great webpage for developers.
SharpToolbox
Let me give you an idea, what you'll be able to find there:

ezCrypto .NET
ezSMTP .NET
Standards Master 2004
Convert C# to VB.NET
V#
EasyThread
DotTux
4ASPNET POP3
CommentMaker
FeinEvaluator
FeinWindows
CommentMakerPro
Dundas Chart for .NET
Xceed Chart for .NET
Raster Imaging Pro for .NET
and much more...

This will be one of my major ressources concerning .Net development..... They have a huge load of components. Both free of charge and not... Some are open-source, some are not.... I think you get the point. It mostly a list of all kinds of components.

WallStreet

Stitch 2.0 — 2004-06-23T21:49:36Z

Alright everyone,

I have just returned.... and let me say: OH MY GOD!!! It's been quite a while since I have seen so many nice ladies crowded in one place. I think I will be a permanent guest there!! Well, on wednesdays especially!! ;) So what kind of place is it?
It's called WallStreet. Why? Because the prices at that place depend on the number of times the drink has been ordered. Just like a stock market. So if you've got a taste, differing from the regular one, you're just fine. And let me confess two things right here:

I am a huge cocktail fan (which puts me in one league with at least one Microsoft employee
I have a strange (whatever that is) taste.... :P

That's all folks!

Enjoy the night and take care!

Mail via GSM SMS

Stitch 2.0 — 2004-06-23T18:36:46Z

I think I found my favourite bar in hamburg. At least on wednesday evening. They have ladies night and there are dozens of nice ladies around!! I will give you more info on this spot later tonight!

Go germany go!!

Stitch 2.0 — 2004-06-23T16:55:44Z

Off to see some soccer. Since the european champisonship is going on, I'll be off watching some soccer at a bar.
See ya!