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

November 26th, 2007
Processing is fun

I’m currently attending a course called “Animation programming with Processing”. It’s a blended-learning course lectured at my university. I heard about processing before but never looked at it closely. Processing is a simple programming language build on top of Java and comes with its own, simple IDE. It includes some basic functionality and can be extended with a variety of libraries (Audio, Video, 3D, Network, ...).

It’s amazing how easy it is to write stunning animations with very little lines of code. Combined with a simple webcam and a projector you’ll get cool interactive installations:

Presence

I, Ball

Check out the exhibition at processing.org too!

Maybe I’ll upload some of my own sketches during the next weeks.

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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! ;-)

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October 8th, 2007
Knife, fork and spoon

Note the fork! Recognizing someone?

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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

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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 benedikt – Filed in Articles, Ruby on Rails
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