http://www.giombetti.com Marc Giombetti's blog about computer science and lifestyle. Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:12:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As I have promised in my previous blog post, I provide you with some pictures of my first two weeks in Boston. In the last couple of days I have already been busy reading lots of papers for my research and didn't get that much time to explore Boston. Nevertheless, ... http://www.giombetti.com/2009/06/26/first-weeks-in-boston/ Hello everybody. It has been a long time since my last blog entry. As a few things changed in my life; so basically I am not staying in Munich any more, but I took a trip over to the US to do research for my master thesis at the Massachusetts ... http://www.giombetti.com/2009/06/16/new-to-boston/ In the summer term 2008, I took part in a seminar on software quality at the chair of Univ.-Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Manfred Broy, Technische Universität München. I did extensive research on software quality in general and wrote a paper on the Cost/Benefit aspects of Software Quality Assurance, which I ... http://www.giombetti.com/2009/01/25/costbenefit-aspects-of-software-quality-assurance/ Last friday I went to the top Bundesliga clash FC Bayern - TSG Hoffenheim. The Allianz Arena was sold out and the game was exciting down to the wire. FC Bayern won the game 2:1. After the game there was a spectacular light show which was really worth seeing. I ... http://www.giombetti.com/2008/12/08/fcb-hoffenheim-allianz-arena-light-show/ In the last couple of weeks I have been working a lot with different databases which I had to connect to from Java. It is sometime stressful to look up the right format of the connection string to the database. Even though, these strings should, or are meant to be ... http://www.giombetti.com/2008/09/29/sql-connection-strings/ 08.08.08: Perfect date for the release of my brother's new mixtape. He raps in Luxemburgish and is proud to present his first album recorded with his new studio equipment. You may download T-Way - This Way for free from his website. Feel free to leave some feedback on this site, as well ... http://www.giombetti.com/2008/08/08/mixtape-t-way-this-way/ Nach längerer Zeit gibt es dann auch mal wieder einen neuen Eintrag in meinem Blog ;). Ich war die letzte Zeit viel beschäftigt; unter anderem mit dem Verfassen der Arbeit über die es in diesem Eintrag geht: Im Sommersemester 2008 habe ich im Rahmen des Seminars Wissenschaftler und Ethik an der ... http://www.giombetti.com/2008/07/01/freiheit-im-internet/ In the last weeks I got visit from Christophe and Michel in Munich. They took a lot of pictures of beautiful Munich. Additionally there are some pictures of the Deutsches Museum and the BMW Welt. At the end of this entry you will also find a video of people surfing on ... http://www.giombetti.com/2008/05/16/spring-in-munich-part-ii/ In this blog post I will make some publicity for Michel´s project of a spellchecker for the luxembourgish language. This project now also contains a thesaurus database which you should extend by new words, if you find something missing (which you probably will, because the project is in an early ... http://www.giombetti.com/2008/05/16/spellcheckerlu-relaunch/ I am not going to blog about how amazing Munich is (not yet, but I will do so in the next weeks). I just want to share some tunes with you. I captured them this afternoon in the English Garden. The musicians are a band somehow and they were playing ... http://www.giombetti.com/2008/04/27/spring-in-munich/