La Tour Eiffel

La Tour Eiffel

I know it’s a bit late but 125 years and still standing : La Tour Eiffel is one of my favourites! And that is not only because it helped me through my marathon in Paris in 2010 ,,, it was just so energising. Find out all the details from the wiki … as usual!

Design Patterns

Nice and neat overview including some criticism ... isn't that refreshing? In software engineering, a design pattern is a general repeatable solution to a commonly occurring problem in software design. A design pattern isn't a finished design that can be transformed...

NoSQL

Now that we just get used to SQL, lets go to NoSQL. Have a look at this prominent introduction ... good for perspective . Introduction to NoSQL by Martin Fowler So, nothing lost ...

Prime Numbers – Visual Patterns ?

Prime Numbers – Visual Patterns ?

Will these pictures give you some idea of what their secret is ? Maybe there is no secret ! The Ulam spiral is a way of visualizing the distribution of prime numbers (black dots in the image and blue in the movie below). This pattern is one the great unsolved...

Samuel Barber

Samuel Barber

Samuel Osmond Barber II (March 9, 1910 – January 23, 1981) was an American composer of orchestral, opera, choral, and piano music. He is one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century: music critic Donal Henahan stated that "Probably no other American...

The Taming of The Finest Bubbles

The Taming of The Finest Bubbles

An initial burst of effervescence occurs when the Champagne contacts the dry glass on pouring. These bubbles form on imperfections in the glass that facilitate nucleation or, to a lesser extent, on cellulose fibres left over from the wiping/drying process as shown...

Eiffel

Not the tower but the programming language. I am surprised how few people know about it and how even fewer dare to use it. But then we love C# and that's the fashion and it is funky and sexy and does it all ... ??? However, have a look and think ... Eiffel is an...

Architecture at home in its community

When TED Fellow Xavier Vilalta was commissioned to create a multistory shopping mall in Addis Ababa, he panicked. Other centers represented everything he hated about contemporary architecture: wasteful, glass towers requiring tons of energy whose design had absolutely...

Steven Paul “Steve” Jobs

Steven Paul “Steve” Jobs

Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American entrepreneur,[7] marketer,[8] and inventor,[9] who was the co-founder (along with Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne), chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc. Through Apple, he is widely recognized as...

Douglas Hofstadter

Douglas Hofstadter

Douglas Richard Hofstadter (February 15, 1945 - ...) is an American professor of cognitive science whose research focuses on the sense of "I",[2][3] consciousness, analogy-making, artistic creation, literary translation, and discovery in mathematics and physics. He is...

Paul Jackson Pollock

Paul Jackson Pollock

Paul Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956), known as Jackson Pollock, was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. He was well known for his unique style of drip painting. During his lifetime, Pollock...

Mozart

Mozart

Hello hello hello ... it's Mozart day ! Don Giovanni, String Quintetts, Requiem, Rondo alla turca, Piano Sonata in F Major, Clarinet Concerto in A Major, ... who cares ... there is no favorite ... he is just a genius ... and that's because 99% of his work is simply...

Zooming the Zone

We all know that the best way to get something done is to write down a list of what to do. Well, here for you need of course some idea of what it is you are doing and that usually implies a little of analysing or broadly spoken "cutting into pieces". In doing so it is...

John von Neuman

John von Neuman

John von Neumann (December 28, 1903 – February 8, 1957) was a Hungarian-born American pure and applied mathematician and polymath. He made major contributions to a number of fields,[1] including mathematics (foundations of mathematics, functional analysis, ergodic...

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