We expanded the services for both the exhibitors and visitors of Europe’s leading fair for minerals, gem and fossils. They could buy tickets and other products in a tailor-made online-shop which was developed and implemented by GSDH. An interactive flash-based map allows visitors to find and catch up with the exhibitors and their showpieces.

GSDH has provided valuable services with its Flash-based apps, HTML5-based apps, Social-Media-apps and other digital marketing for you and many well-known companies. With munichshow.com we again conceptualized and produced a complex website of high quality. If you have a heavy digital project on your mind, contact us. We’ll take a load off your mind.

The presentations will cover the culture and methodologies used to architect and develop strong foundations required to operate websites and services. The conference is aimed at members of the technical team that are working on websites and services and people who are interested in the latest technologies.

The ScaleConf focuses on topics such as Configuration Management, IT Infrastructure, Monitoring and Metrics, Continuous Deployment, Virtualization and SQL alternatives. The speaker line-up includes some big names like Coda Hale (Yammer Inc.), Simon de Haan (Praekelt), Zach Holman (Github) and Miles Ward (Amazon Web Services).

To the best interns available on the transfer market she belonged anyway. Svenja has eagerly pursued international studies of Global Managment in Bremen, Germany, (where she played for the famous SV Werder) and came to South Africa to gain international experience for her international studies. She started with a semester at South Africa’s oldest university in Stellenbosch where she learned Afrikaans (best Afrikaans speaking handball player then, no doubt). Studying in South Africa was much harder than in Germany with many more duties and tests. (So much for the famous German diligence.)

Svenja is happy now to have a break from theories and to go ahead at GSDH with practical stuff. She’s also happy for the wind that’s cooling down the current summer heat and makes it much more bearable than in Stellenbosch’s back-country. Heat is something she suffers from, Svenja says. Well, so there’s at least one reason for her to look forward going back to the European autumn in a couple of month.

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This year the carnival took place on the 2nd of January. Many South Africans have the day off then, in contrast to your diligent GSDH-team, caring for the needs of their European clients. Some of us went to the parade’s nearest section at the so-called Malay quarter. A lot of people were standing alongside the streets and many had even made themselves especially comfortable with camping chairs and supplies. But no minstrels in sight. We went to a little shop to try out a Roti and other Cape-Malay specialties. I asked the owner whether she could tell us when the procession would arrive. She looked at me, severely, but kindly and said: „This is Cape Town. It is very laid-back, you know? They have started the march, it is not clear when they will be here, but the march is ongoing into the night.“

As an impatient and schedule-controlled European, one only can learn from that. Unfortunately I already had plans for the evening, but was pleased to sneak a peek on my way home later that day, and wiggling clumsily with my feet to the beats.

In this spirit: your GSDH-team wishes you a as less stressing 2012 as possible.

Maybe I just long for a „white Christmas“. Maybe I just like penguins (which you find in Cape Town, in contrast to snow). By all means I like blue. That’s also said to be an appeasing colour and the result of the image above was that I was a balancing personality, a real Nobel prize winner. Astonishingly true.
So what does your Christmas tree say about you? Perhaps you like it anarchically and put some blowfish on a shaggy fir tree. Perhaps you’re the materialist guy and fill the whole image with bank notes and gifts – regardless of which tree? Or do you just yearn for summer sun and choose the palm tree and decorate it with bananas and parrots?

Have fun and – now really for the last time on this blog: Merry Christmas!

To turn everything topsy-turvy was the basic thought of our X-mas quiz, too, which we sent to some of our clients. Would „Beer cures Alzheimers“ be a working mnemonic phrase for the order of a car’s pedals, if they – like many things in left-hand traffic – were arranged the other way round as most Europeans know it? Weeeellll? Think a little over it. Just imagine to turn yourself … errrm, you know …

Ynnus samtsirhc!

Prior to being a designer, Daniel studied Engineering. When his colleagues showed him their draft of the new Watch & Win Contest for Rohde & Schwarz, Daniel was pleased. He found it interesting, informative, and never boring. We obviously hit the target group.

The „Rohde & Schwarz Watch & Win Contest“ contains a prize competition following a video that’s presenting the Munich-based leading test & measurement manufacturer’s new high-end signal analyzer named the R&S®FSW. So the task was to reach a very special target group. (Check!)

But even better proof for how informative the contest is, is me – a technical greenhorn. I’ll show you how well it works and demonstrate to you  right here and now a live self test about what I still keep in mind a whole week after watching the contest. (Impressive, isn’t it? But don’t praise me, praise the Rohde & Schwarz Watch & Win Contest!)

Here we go:

The R&S®FSW simultaneously measures different signals at different frequencies.  These signals can be viewed at the same time on one screen with the MultiView function which offer a lot of helpful information to the experts (I’m obviously out of the game here).The user can also freely arrange measurements on the screen to fit their needs, thanks to the new SmartGrid tool. The R&S®FSW optimally adjusts to any measurement requirement and offers the largest demodulation bandwidth of any signal and spectrum analyzer … Well, at this point I give up.  From now on, if you want to know more… you better consult Daniel or play the Watch & Win Contest yourself.

There seem to be limitless ways of using these two-dimensional codes. Advertisers and marketers around the world are constantly trying to discover new ways of integrating and making use of these codes. In Japan, tombstone creator Ishinokoe (Voice of the Stone) of Yamanashi Prefecture, will soon offer tombstones featuring embedded QR codes. He refers to these as “Kuyou no Mado” (Memorial Service Window), which allows visitors that are visiting the resting place of the deceased, to scan the code and receive information about the individual.

On the 16th of June 2011, French tattoo artist K.A.R.L. supposedly created the first animated QR code tattoo. The tattoo consisted of a QR code adorned with cogs and flowers, K.A.R.L displayed the whole event via a live stream. Once the artwork was complete, he proceeds to place a smart phone on the piece which then plays an animation that is stylized in order to make the tattoo seem like it is moving.

There are 4 libraries: EaselJS, Zoë, TweenJS, SoundJS.

EaselJS: This is the display library for HTML5 that helps you draw your elements to the stage, adding filters and touch support for iOS. The library provides a retained graphics mode for the canvas, full display list and an interaction model that makes it easier to work with the Canvas. There are also a lot of helper classes and it works great with the 3 libraries beneath.

Zoë: This tool helps you export your flash animations to sprite sheets that can be used in EaselJS.

TweenJS: This library helps you create animation in JavaScript. The syntax is readable and easy to use. You can sequence your sprites to make complex animation.

SoundJS: This library helps you working with audio in browsers much easier, as you know each browser has his own approach and thus you will spend a lot of time to get it working on all of them, SoundJS takes care of that for you and give you some powerful features.

The blog article that describes the latest updates on all four of them can be found here.
Most languages out there has a cheat sheet, here is the one for HTML5.

If you read this article by Tracy and want to know more about the future of Flash, please go and read this blog post from Mike Chambers