UPDATE: English article about the censorship.
Post about stopping internet censorship plans of german politicians.


UPDATE: Das Gesetz wurde leider beschlossen.
Der Blog Netzpolitik.org hat eine super Aktion mit dem Ziel die CDU-Zensurplaene zu stoppen. Jeden Tag gibt es die Kontaktdaten eines anderen SPD-Politikers im Bundestag. Jeder einzelne Deutsche kann also aktiv werden indem er an den klaren Menschenverstand der SPD appelliert.
Politiker beschliessen Gesetze nach bestem Wissen und Gewissen. Es liegt in diesem Fall leider einzig und allein bei uns für ein umfassendes Wissen bei den Menschen zu sorgen, die als letzte Front noch gegen die CDU aufstehen können und unsere Freiheit schützen werden.


Der Blogpost verweisst auf mehrere Quellen mit Wissen zum Thema Internetzensur. Natürlich ist auch die Verbreitung der Aktion über Twitter, Facebook, StudiVZ, den eigenen Blog, Email, ICQ, MSN, mündliche Weitergabe usw. eine riesige Hilfe.

Presentation today at Ruby User Group Karlsruhe about Red.
Red lets you develop javascript code with ruby.
The “slides”: http://prezi.com/90854/view
To get started with Red, I put together an archive with all you need to play around: ruby_red.zip
It contains my current fork of red, my red_query framework and example files plus a Rakefile for compilation.

Also checkout github.com/julius.

Just opened up our unstable development version of keyboardr for the public.
keyboardr.com/nightly

It has many improvements, like browser-search-box integration. Some new features, like language customization (just type “settings”). And a new search engine: Twitter.

We open up the /nightly to preview where the developement process is heading. But this version will be recreated from scratch. We are changing the underlying technology. In the future we will use the great power of Ruby Red. Which is basically a Ruby-to-Javascript compiler.

We will actively help to mature the Ruby Red project, which already shows great potential for its young age. Checkout my fork github.com/julius/red, and my framework red_query, which basically is a wrapper for jQuery plus some important stuff like JSON support: github.com/julius/red_query.

For the following terms, the Google “Feeling Lucky” button redirects you to stuff I created.

1. julius eckert :)
2. julius eckert blog
3. keyboardr
4. simpletodo
5. julius eckert quicksilver
6. bezelhud
7. silverflow
8. wallybally
9. chor
10. ffboosta

Try it out: Google.

Ever tried find a list like this for yourself? if someone knows other terms to complete my list please leave a comment!

(I used the english version of Google)

I am really on a run. On the last 2 days I managed to get CouchDB and a pretty basic server-side-javascript (SSJS) running. (200% layer-increase for JavaScript)

Not familiar with CouchDB? Its generally a super-ultra-google-like-mega-scalable database, which kind of replaces the good old SQL-language with JS. At the current version (0.8.1), still no fulltext search.

My SSJS is a little three-classes Java application based on Simple and Rhino.

Backend “Hello World”:
echo(”Hello World”);

Frontend “Hello World”:
echo(”<script>alert('hello world'); </script>);

Database “Hello World”:
load(”lib/couchdb.js”);<br /> var couch = new couchdb(”localhost”, 5984);<br /> var r = couch.request(”GET”, “/”);<br /> echo(”couchdb => ” + r.data.couchdb);

I am a first-timer on SimpleFramework and Mozilla Rhino. Anyone has experience with stability, performance etc. (comment or mail me)?

My 1-day-SSJS: Download (including Screencast)

(remember its not meant to be super robust, scalable or performant. but if you know how to make it better then let me know. I am strongly interested in this topic + a java noob.)

This is how keyboardr.com feels like on the iPhone (in this case my iPod Touch 2G).

keyboardr.com does not have an iPhone specific version, yet. Usually websites try to create iPhone specific website which avoid, having the user to zoom. In keyboardr the zooming is actually great. I think the whole site in general works great with the iPhone. Of course, there is a lot to improve for the iPhone like improving readability and decreasing bandwidth usage (no need to search on all keypresses, as the results are hidden while typing anyway).