A journey through games, programming, music and interaction
Dragica
After 6 years working as an AI programmer in the computer games industry in Germany, I just started my own game developement company in Switzerland. This is my blog about my experiences as an indie developer with the minimum team size of one woman. 2007 I started giving classes on game mathematics and physics at the Games Academy in Berlin and Frankfurt. My main site is : www.gluggergames.ch where you can find my resume and other information.
Homepage: http://www.kahlina.com
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-29
- Syncing Preferences with Dropbox or Ubuntu One: http://www.linuxjournal.com/video/syncing-preferences-dropbox-or-ubuntu-one #
- #CRE is #ChaosRadioExpress by the way,German tech podcast from @timpritlove, absolutly fantastic, http://bit.ly/c3S6uw is about synths #
- Saw youtubevideo http://youtu.be/efATBBWP88I of #doepfer #darkenergy, big mistake, now I want one and all this because of #CRE 149 on synths #
- Werde meinen offenen #Malabend für alle bald wieder aufnehmen, denke Mittwoch oder Donnerstag Abend, Infos und News : http://bit.ly/cJ2oyC #
- #Painting again, waiting for the #acrylic to dry #fb #
- Got my clarity filter on again
# - Cool dank @monah und @mdallavecchia fast mit dabei an der #emex10 in reply to monah #
- Now I just have to get the #levenshtein distance into my #powershell script then I am done … #
- Since some people still don't know: #Powershell is build-in in #win XP-7, it is inspired by bash and similar shells and has access to #.Net #
- #ubuntu and #win on #macbook with #parallels but maybe not all 3 at the same time #slow #
- Now #parallels gives me another problem, a luxury one, do I install in the mac os or put it in windows where it is almost as easy to reach #
- Would have so liked to go: RT @wesen: updated link to the picasa album for the @froscon arduino paper robot workshop: http://bit.ly/dtPZSw #
- Thanks @monah for recommending #parallels #windows done, next up some linux #
- 3 mini-#kiwi and 1 green and 1 red #tomato on our #terrasse #
- Played around with org mode quite a lot,will be interesting RT @merlyn: Confirmed for sep 22 FLOSS Weekly: Carsten Dominik – Emacs Org-mode #
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-22
- Maybe I should make my own #iPad grip with this stuff #sugru http://sugru.com/ the idea is genius, I have to order, just to try out #
- #iPad gets heavy, especially if you hold it in portrait mode, the slick casing may look nice, but after sometime your hand tires, need stand #
- I <3 iTunesU such a wealth of information, today 1 short lecture on Locke and one in German about Komplexitätstheorie (the P ?= NP) stuff #
- War ist wird immer mein Lieblingsgedicht bleiben: RT @timpritlove: Wählt Anna Blume! http://bit.ly/9lO92o /via @der_sowa #kurtschwittersday #
- Found app #StreamToMe which allows streaming video from my #Mac to my #iPad over WiFi (no loading into memory), why isn't this build in ? #
- #question can I get #excel07 to spread out on 2 monitors or open a second separate excel window I can put on my second monitor ? #
- Ok lets try this #ff thingy a big hello to fellow geek @monah #
- #Ebookreader with EInk are like paperbacks, easy to take with you, the #iiPad is like a high-gloss magazine beautiful on the coffee table #
- VI Arnold dead http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/aug/19/v-i-arnold-obituary thanks for your great books that helped me through uni #
- #ritterinvasion http://twitpic.com/2g5tmh #
- #ritterinvasion http://twitpic.com/2g5gyr #
- If I feel #functional starved I can always program #clojure on my #900 I <3 my phone #
- #Powershell Out-GridView is cool #
- Go see the #A Team if you like explosions,don't mind the inexistence of story, shody geography and go as a group without your brain #
- So 12x #Mitelaltergewandung + 4x Stoff für Kopfbedeckung Damen fertig #
- Since we are at it I like #Calibre http://bit.ly/69cMFk to manage my ebooks, works great on Win, Mac (tested) and Linux (untested) #
- I like no-starch-books they have an interesting line-up, I own "Write Great Code" http://bit.ly/94HOLW since I lack any formal cs training #
- Projekt #Mittelaltergewandung : 75% = 8 Stk done #
- Stand Projekt Mittelaltergewandung : 50% #
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-15
- #streetparade guido von #daydeal http://twitpic.com/2enlie #
- 2 Tunikas für #Mittelalterfest fertig, 1 fertig bis auf den Saum, 1 ausgeschnitten und gesäumt -> optimaler Prozess gefunden -> #Kaizen #
- Online book on how to build iPhone Apps with HTML,CSS and Javascript http://bit.ly/17Eif5 #
- Zurück aus ZH mit Unmengen ungebleichter Baumwolle die topologisch neu konfiguriert wird in 12 Mittelaltertuniken -> angewandte Mathematik #
- RT @neilhimself: RT @stephenfry: Oh this is marvellous… http://youtu.be/putQn89TQzc, did I see the whole old #threadbanger crew in there? #
- On the Oracle sues Google over #softwarepatents why am I not really surprised ? #
- The programmer part of my brain seems to wake up at approx 18:00 this collides somewhat with normal working hours #
- #Powershell has some nice debugging features like 'breakpoints' to put in your code,have the script stop there and interactivly probe vars #
- Reading about #Perl6 an old flame of mine, with all the functional stuff happening all over my #lisp hobby may be visionary instead of crazy #
- http://twitpic.com/2dwtjg #
- RT @vogella : Start using #git to sync different computers. in reply to vogella #
- The video of the #creativemornings talk with @hiltl is on @swissmiss blog http://bit.ly/ayHJoa #
- In some way #Powershell is cool, in the same crazy mold as #Perl maybe, it is insanely powerful, defies any boundaries and can be evil #
- Für alle Nikonistas Glossar zu den #Nikon #Objektiv Buchstabemkürzeln http://ozdoba.net/nikon/objektiv/index_objektiv.html #
- Streit um das Messegelände in Köln auf dem die Gamescom stattfindet http://www.golem.de/1008/77109.html #
- Versuche verzweifelt Nikons Objektivbuchstabencode zu entziffern S D G DX DC wtf #
- Der Optiker war wieder mal etwas zu optimistisch was die #Brille betrifft,falls ich heute noch arbeiten soll,wird das nicht ganz so klappen #
- back from #hiking in the #mountains 2 h, pretty flat, terrain difficult, rain, fog and s.o. without a raincoat, need my coffee #
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-08
- #meringue in Meiringen #
- #shopping ipad, new glasses and some sewing tools, also slowly building up critical mass in yarn stash #
- Heute schon ge- #twory -t ? http://bit.ly/co2k2Z #
- Danger #headexplosion imminent #powershell #
- http://m.gizmodo.com/5604061/goddamnit-now-i-want-to-work-at-twitter twitter recruiting video #
- #inception absolut sehenswert #
- RT @wesen: my git infrastructure is turning into a big katamari damacy ball of repositories. refactoring… thou should not abuse submodules in reply to wesen #
- Zug zu spät #
- #eigenharp pico -> #ableton live -> #omnisphere -> making funny noises #
- And now to something completely different, at least found 1 of my myriad of #crochet hooks,how can they all disappear? crochet my meditation #
- mac and I just not made for each other, at least I got #sugar_on_a _stick, strawberry flavored and I progressed in learning #impromptu #
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-01
- RT @lispmeister: RT @Phlogistique:"Honestly,it's the coolest thing I've ever seen" http://bit.ly/af6HiX #music #LISP #impromptu #scheme cool #
- Shelled out for a new coffee machine from Saeco small, energy efficient, sturdy and for coffee beans hope it lasts 15 years like the Jura #
- Hat jemand Erfahrung mit einem Saeco Odea Kaffeevollautomat? Meine 15 Jahre alte Jura müsste sehrwahrscheinlich mal ersetzt werden #
- VBS, Powershell, EigenD, Lisp(Scheme) I will get you and I will triumph, I may not be able to always choose my battleground, but I will win #
- A good programmer is 99% obsession to not let it control you,but to fight until your last,to have it your way, to be the master of the bits #
- Looked at #eigenharp videotut 4 arnd 6 times,fought w/ the software, of which I downloaded the bleeding edge version, I will get there #
- http://www.golem.de/1007/76831.html #Hibari eine nicht-rationale verteilte DB geschrieben in #Erlang kommt unter die Apache 2 Lizenz #
- RT @citizen428 : Croquet in Squeak 4.1 http://is.gd/dQuHM Can haz Metaverse nao? in reply to citizen428 #
- hm da fehlt ein p #
- I like the graph-drawing utility thats included in #macosx real nifty and the examples are cool #
- Zug strandet endgültig in Killwangen-Spreitenbach #
- Juhe Zug fährt wieder #
- Zug nach ZH steht in Mägenwil #
- RT @foogoof : Want more spam? Use Facebook's like button: http://www.allfacebook.com/2010/07/facebook-contact-likers/ in reply to foogoof #
- Lets go http://golang.org/ programming #
- Am http://www.montagsmarkt.ch/ neue Ohrringe gekauft http://yfrog.com/1qwy9bj #
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-25
- Sie haben die #kirchenglocken gefixt, sie schwingen aus und sind melodisch, leiser sind sie damit auch geworden #
- #impromptu dynamic music programming tested first little lines of code #
- 8 hours teaching math and physics, feeling empty, next 2 days software design #
- On my way to Frankfurt again, packing my new Mac, lets see if it is travelfriendly, it is sure lighter than the Toshiba #
- The penguin moves!: So, where are those mobile Qt apps ? (Part 1, History) http://bit.ly/cLromU #
- Now that the tiddlywiki works somebody has to write the content, or rather ore or less copy it …, booooooooring #
- RT @sthuebner: #CRE 84 rausgekramt: @timpritlove im Gespräch mit @HansHuebner zum Thema LISP, wollt ich auch noch zu Ende hören #
- Für Glutenallergiker http://m.gizmodo.com/5591245/feed-this-machine-rice-and-itll-spit-out-a-fresh-loaf-of-bread #
- RT @N900_News : Nokia Conducting Search for New CEO http://on.wsj.com/buUzD6 in reply to N900_News #
- Javascript: Inkompatibilität im ECMAScript 5th Edition – Golem.de http://www.golem.de/1007/76543.html #
- aha irgendjemand dreht an der steuerung der kirchenglocken, sie klingen mal wieder, tests natürlich um 7 uhr morgens #
- Will blog on that later #
- Finally got my #TiddlyWiki really looking good, not-editable, without sidebar, with menu online and since the content is not ready, no link #
- How was this with the last 20% gives the most work? #
- Gestern Abend wurden erfolgreich 3 Weinflaschen gekillt und Roboter in Roborally (http://bit.ly/awRL6b) programmiert #
- #macproblems a) where is my hashtag(solved my try-out), b) where is my backslash and c) how do I get a swiss german spellchecker into mac ? #
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-18
- MS #Powershell is cool, built-in in every Windows you can script .NET, for instance you can import a csv and treat it like a db #
- RT @citizen428 : Game written in HTML5 and JavaScript: http://is.gd/dsLRr (via @fatmike182) in reply to citizen428 #
- How can I make a window fullscreen on a mac and is there any good book/site on xcode ? #
- #siggraphnano10 practice session for #siggraph from #ethz and #disneyresearch spontanously dropped by #
- So Zahn ist provisorisch geflickt yuhe #
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-11
- #omnisphere has 6 discs, each unpacks to around 7 gb of data in around 30 minutes => 3 + 1 hours of changing discs #branchingout2mac #
- #creativeornings coole krawatte aus veloreifen http://www.tube.ch http://twitpic.com/23orhd #
- #creativemornings I never see #hiltl as a vegeterian restaurant, but as one with a wide range of dishes #
- #creativmornings hiltl is actually over a 100 years old, Abstinenzcafe … http://twitpic.com/23odvu #
- #creativmornings starting http://twitpic.com/23oazv #
- RT @CERN : Particle physics labs to take amateur photographers behind the scenes: http://bit.ly/ciUo1c #pppw in reply to CERN #
- At least some software vendors get that people change their computers (and os) or have a mobile and a stationary system and let you use both #
- What I hate most using commercial software is that I always have to store and find authorization passwords, user etc. and each one different #
- The Mac has found the Server, time to get the software up and running. #
- CreativeMornings ZH w/ Rolf Hiltl http://bit.ly/5queUP on Friday only 28 tickets left, maybe I will meet @swissmiss, I <3 her blog #
- Never press enter accidentally, did somebody score a goal ? #
- Proves to be challenging to get my mac into my win-net, at least found the missing utility, but the mac doesn’t find no network, web works #
- Habe den neuen Asuskeyboardcomputer gesehen, Erinnerungen an Commodore 128 Zeiten #
- Have a Macbook Pro the end of the world may be near, just a friendly warning
# - I am 55% addicted to Twitter http://su.pr/1b72Ly from the delicious @oatmeal, @rhinnen schlägt mich um Längen #
- RT @karinfriedli: Frauen glauben scheinbar sie sollten weniger verdienen http://bit.ly/bEUQem, wir sind also wieder mal selber schuld ja #
- Für iPhone Besitzer die gezwungen sind Scrum zu benützen (Ihr wisst wer ihr seid) http://www.golem.de/1007/76255.html #
- http://www.golem.de/1007/76242.html Textilien die Strom speichern, nie mehr leere Akkus #
- My reading list hopefully gets updated there too #
- I now use mGSD http://bit.ly/avKT4i for my stuff-I-have-ToDo-thingy it is a Tiddlywiki uses #GTD (unimportant) is simple and systindependent #
- Still on my #readinglist http://bit.ly/1sy5p Structure and Interpretationof Computer Programs #
- I have a deep distrust in the level of complexity that can be handled by visual programming environments like #maxmsp or #puredata #
- http://bit.ly/d9pJFZ #lisp #music and #opengl interactiv, that’s the goal, doesn’t have to be lisp, but probably rather command line #
- Die Kirchenglocken haben aufgehört, juhe, ist heute irgendein katholischer Feiertag? #
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-04
- twittboat http://twitpic.com/22ckrh #
- quaternion multiplication on the blackboard, still feels like performing a magic trick, with a cross-product instead of a rabbit #
- http://www.golem.de/1006/76093.html selbstfaltende Strukturen, unendliche Möglichkeiten für neue Spiele #
- I <3 what people come up with, I <3 the interwebs, how could we live without you -> RT @fogus: Functional Javascript http://bit.ly/4eGgt0 #
- Recently bought the book “The Annotated Turing” http://bit.ly/8DYYAj , which is a guided tour through his famous paper very well written #fb #
- The new Harry Potter trailer http://bit.ly/bUKv5R #
- RT @rhofstetter: Microsoft .NET vs Java: http://ow.ly/24DZT, Scala Johannson was cast, Benny Clojure didn’t make the cut … #
- No I don’t read manuals,press button & look what’s happening is mine,ok tomorrow I will start on the manual, my inner 6 yr. old disapproves #
- The #eigenharp command line thingy reminds me of the first time I played zork, write something, try to make sense of the answer #
- Got #eigenharp pico working on win7, interesting ui #
- My #eigenharp pico has arrived http://bit.ly/aRQitU , #eigenlabs cannot ship to Switzerland so mine comes from Paris http://woodbrass.com/ #
- I’m attending CreativeMornings Zurich, Switzerland with Rolf Hiltl — http://creativemornings.eventbrite.com #
- Did a little bit of gardening today, hope that not all the stuff dies, trial-and-lots-of-error planting in my ongoing biological experiment #
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-27
- Up to date on http://www.megatokyo.com/ again, I need a new capture the bear t-shirt #
- Painting again, I love holidays, new open atelier try starting soon, tuesday maybe ? #
- My last #evernote tweet was misleading evernote works on mac since a long time and lots more, I just haven't had a mac yet, sorry @evernote #
- RT @lispmeister : RT @orbitbooks: Tweet it from the rooftops, a new Culture novel by Iain M. Banks in October Surface Detail http://ht.l … in reply to lispmeister #
- New #evernote has a better batch-tagging-facility exactly as I wished, thank you very much @evernote , on windows, N900, web and soon mac #
- Commented on The Ultimate Guide To The Eigenharp Alpha / Synthtopia http://bit.ly/bXG7nO #
- Führung über Massenaussterben heute in der Zoologischen Sammlung ZH war interessant, leider fast keine Dinos, nach London etwas entäuschend #
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-20
- The new #lisp fangirl series of different implementations: Steel Bank Common Lisp http://www.sbcl.org/ #
- The new #lisp fangirl series of different implementations: newlisp http://www.newlisp.org/ #
- The new #lisp fangirl series of different implementations: http://www.picolisp.org/ #
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Twitter on 2010-06-16
- One TiddlyWiki doesn't mean you are done, working on my notes, talks and info-management system with tasks , has to work offline and on n900 #
- Solution by the way are lots of TiddlyWikis with special plugins in a good directory system over dropbox -> on-, offline, desktop and mobile #
- Trying to get all my fluid data under Mercurial, I like that if I do stupid stuff I just can delete the .hg #
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Twitter on 2010-06-05
- Got the photo portion of my mini-blogoverse working and looking somewhat nice, if you like to visit http://bit.ly/9M6t0B #
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Twitter on 2010-06-04
- Have a new #lensbaby muse with double glass optic and softfocus kit, lets go playing #
- Check out these photos: http://picasaweb.google.de/VisuellesTagebuch/Lensbaby?feat=twitter #
- Ok will have to find a new solution #picasa webalbum doesn't cut it anymore, it looks ugly, I also fought with wordpress themes #
- I won't give you the photo-blog because it isn't up to standard, I have to revise my photo-upload-flow, without loosing control of my photos #
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Twitter on 2010-06-02
- On my way to #Scala #meetup Zurich with guest Martin Odersky will twitter under #scalazh #
- #scalazh scala is a unifier #
- #scalazh less code to write, always a plus, but code doesn't get to dense either #
- #scalazh easy to embed domain-specific languages, easy to define high-level API #
- RT @planet_lisp : Patrick Stein: NeHe Tutorials for CL-OpenGL http://tinyurl.com/37q3hxx in reply to planet_lisp #
- #scalazh foursquare run on scala? #
- #scalazh now into the deep deep core, collections and the removal of duplicate code #
- Quellcode des Spiels Gish veröffentlicht, mit der Physikengine http://bit.ly/c2P4Y6 , cool #fb #
- #scalazh was fun, more people than were expected, a lot of complicated stuff in a short time, but my brain cell needs some challenges #
- I may be starting to actually like #ipads and see a usefulness behind them, maybe I need fresh air, holidays, is there some pill I can take? #
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Twitter on 2010-06-01
- RT @bubbl_scala: Zurich Scala Enthusiasts Meetup – Zurich Scala Enthusiasts (Zürich) – Meetup.com http://ff.im/-leH16 #
- Lisping a little today, call it a day, tomorrow #scala meetup #
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Twitter on 2010-05-29
- Started playing Animal Crossing again, seriously addictive #
- My Problem: I need an electronic instrument to perform music live, actually I just need some controller since the synth is on the laptop #
- Question: Which one #Eigenharp Pico or Tau (not midi/osc, not (yet) open), a #Jazzmutant #Lemur (osc, not open) or an #iPad (no multitask)? #
- http://tweetphoto.com/22705225 Lauch (denke ich mal, sieht zwar mehr nach Zwiebel aus) von der Terrasse #fb #
- Fiddeling around with #tiddlywiki #asciencepad #jsMath do all programmers have this terrible affliction of tinkering around all the time? #
- http://bit.ly/d9pk4y granular synthesis resource site #
- Das weisse #synology kistchen rödelt mal fröhlich vor sich hin, benamst wurde es schon, wir sind dann mal auf vorsichtigen 2 TB #fb #
- getting nearer to my math-svg-nested-slider-read-only-sometimes-tiddlywiki-thingy-#tiddlywiki-dream, at least I learn #javascript #
- So my #TiddlyWiki now can do math, svg and not only graph, nested sliders and now has a presentation mode (thanks paulo soares) in one file #
- My #TiddlyWiki should be able to change into non-edit or printing style, have a tree + toc, haven't figured it out yet, still only 1 file #
- RT @rhinnen: wechselt jetzt dann von wordpress auf tumblr -> die fb/twitter integration ist faszinierend, habe mal ein testblog aufgemacht #
- London second try: #eigenharp I will test you and I need some liberty prints, fowles is still open till 11 pm and scones lots of them #fb #
- got my nokia #n900 firmwareupgrade am doing happy dance \(^_^)/ #
- http://twitpic.com/1r76t4 #
- http://twitpic.com/1r76t4 – gastrocalypse 2652010 and N900 does not upload the description, we live to learn #
- Should I Meego on my Asus 901 or running violett with the Lynx? Time for Linux again … #
- first round: #meego against #ubunto netbook, meego won, looks nicer, feels faster, better adapted to my eee 901, next round #peppermintos #
- No #eigenharp for me since @eigenlabs is not capable of showing me an instrument at their headquarter in London #fail alternatives anyone ? #
- my personal ranking (mostly based on UI) 1.meego 2.ubuntu 3.peppermintos all of them are great, I just happen to like meegos style best #
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first round: #meego against #u…
first round: #meego against #ubunto netbook, meego won, looks nicer, feels faster, better adapted to my eee 901, next round #peppermintos
Should I Meego on my Asus 901 …
Should I Meego on my Asus 901 or running violett with the Lynx? Time for Linux again …