Hi, I'm Benedikt Deicke, and I'm a freelance web and software developer. I'm mainly building user focused web applications using Ruby on Rails and JavaScript. Additionally I'm currently studying for my master's degree and enjoying photography in my spare time. Feel free to get in touch with me, I'm available for hire!

October 14th, 2007
Nightwish.com Design Update

We’ve just updated nightwish.com’s design to match with the new album “Dark Passion Play”. We also introduced to new languages: swedish and portuguese. Check it out! ;-)

Posted by benediktFiled in Other

October 8th, 2007
Knife, fork and spoon

Note the fork! Recognizing someone?

Posted by benediktFiled in Linux, Other

September 30th, 2007
Nightwish in Hamburg

I’ve spent a fuckin’ great weekend in Hamburg … again! I finally met Jarmo and Sushi Patrol Nightwish did an amazing concert in the “Delphi Showpalast”. The venue was quite small but very nice. There were just about 300 people but they rocked they house. It was the first time for me to see Anette performing. They did a couple of songs from the new album, Dark Passion Play, and even some old stuff. The after-show-party didn’t last long so the night ended in a small hotel party. ;-)

On saturday there was a signing session in a Saturn-store. The number of attending fans was amazing (700+), but Nightwish did them all in about 2 hours. I took photos of both the concert and the signing session:

Concert

Signing Session

Posted by benediktFiled in Other

September 21st, 2007
ActiveRecord: Using the "type"-column

By default it’s not possible to use a database-column called “type” for anything else than single table inheritance. To change this, simply use set_inheritance_column() and read_attribute():

   1  class TypeTest < ActiveRecord::Base
   2    set_inheritance_column(:something_else)
   3  
   4    def type()
   5      read_attribute(:type)
   6    end
   7  
   8    def type=(value)
   9      write_attribute(:type, value)
  10    end
  11  end
Posted by benediktFiled in Articles, Ruby on Rails

August 25th, 2007
Up From The Ground '07 - Day 1

I’m currently in Gemünden visiting the Up From The Ground Festival to shoot some photos. The weather is – unlike last year – great. Unfortunately the light on stage isn’t that good and it’s hard to achieve good results. In addition I’ve some auto-focus trouble with my Sigma lens and the security guys have strange instructions (they only allow ten people for two songs in the photopit, and then again ten people for another two songs … that’s just 20 of about 60 photo accreditations this year). As a result I’ve only done a few photos … here are some of them:

Arch Enemy

Illdisposed

Sonic Syndicate

That’s it for now … maybe I’ll upload some more tomorrow … :-)

Posted by benediktFiled in Other