Marc Giombetti’s blog about computer science and lifestyle.
After my first term exams in Munich, I thought it would be a good idea to travel a bit. I have never been to Vienna before, and I took the occasion to travel with Philipp and visit his sister Lisa in Vienna. We were having a good time and the weather was awesome. We went to the theatre and to a concert of the Wiener Symphoniker.
Furthermore we did the classical sightseeing program, and a bit of shopping. I took some pictures, you can find them below.
This post contains a downloadable version of my Bachelor Thesis I wrote to complete my studies in computer science at the Technical University Kaiserslautern. The thesis was conducted externally at the Product-Line Engineering Department of the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering in Kaiserslautern.
Continue reading ‘Evaluating the Architectural Coverage of Runtime Traces’
In this post, I present you a tiny program to send SMS messages through the internet:
SMSing is a simple client/server based application to send SMS text messages through the Internet using Clickatell as service provider. The application supports multiple users, credits, logging aso. In the current version, SMSing should not be used in a productive environment, but shall demonstrate how to use and combine different technologies to send SMS´s. Nevertheless SMSing is really interesting for people sending lots of SMS who are bored to type the text using the keyboard of their mobile phones and pay the high prices of their mobile providers. SMSing even allows you to send anonymous messages, or messages with fake sender-number.
I use this post to present you one very simple but effective program to monitor static web pages and to send you an SMS message in case of changes on the website. I called the tool WebsiteWatcher:
WebsiteWatcher allows you to monitor a specific (static) website for changes. If the page is updated, you immediately get an SMS message as notification. This tool was initially used to monitor university websites where results of exams were published. Please notice that this simple tool only works for static pages. Clickatell is used as SMS provider. It provides a reliable, fast and cheap SMS-gateway for 578 networks in 192 countries.
Continue reading ‘WebsiteWatcher - An easy to use website monitor with SMS notification’
Dieser Aufsatz wurde im Rahmen eines Arbeitstechniken-Seminar im Sommersemester 2005 an der TU Kaiserslautern, Fachbereich Informatik als Hausarbeit verfasst. Der Aufsatz gibt einen Einblick in die Kunst des Präsentierens und führt einige Tips an, die beim Gelingen einer Präsentation nützlich sein können. Der Aufsatz kann hier gedownloaded werden.
Continue reading ‘Ausgewählte Aspekte des Visualisierens und Präsentierens’
Im Rahmen meines Studiums der Informatik an der TU Kaiserslautern habe ich das Proseminars “Model Driven Development” der Arbeitsgruppe Software Engineering AGSE erfolgreich absolviert und mich mit dem Thema “Modellierung mit UML 2″ beschäftigt. Die Ausarbeitung als auch die Vortragsfolien stelle ich hier zum download bereit.
Continue reading ‘Model-Driven Development - Modellierung mit UML2′
OUTDATED: This software is a PHP class to grab the latest stocks from Yahoo Finance, and to cache them optionally. To gather data regularly, you can use a crownjob. If you are using Linux type crontab -e on the shell. Then insert the following line (adapt the paths) to your crown file
* * * * * /usr/local/bin/php /home/marc/yahoo.stocks.class.php
and the cron-deamon will execute the script every minute, thus collecting the stock data.
To download the class click 
right here (do not forget to rename phps to php).
