The redevelopment of metalcon is going on and so far I have been very concerned about performance and webscale. Due to the progress of Martin on his bachlor thesis we did a code review of the code to calculate Generalized Language Models with Kneser Ney Smoothing. Even though his code is a standalone (but very …
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Why would musicians use online social networking sites?
For the last 5 years I have been running metalcon an online social network for metal fans and metal bands. As written recently I have the the chance to rewrite the entire platform with a team of 6 programmers. This time we want to do it the correct why. Instead of Thinking of features right …
Metalcon finally gets a redesign – Thinking about high scalability
Finally metalcon.de the social networking site which Jonas, Jens and me created in 2008 gets a redesign. Thanks to the great opportunities at the Institute for Web Science and Technologies here in Koblenz (why don’t you apply for a PhD position with us?) I will have the chance to code up the new version of …
How Tim Berners Lee told me in front of thousand people: “Go geek and do it”
I am at www2012 conference and after the keynote by Neelie Kroes there was a panel discussion with her, Tim Berners Lee and Gille Babinet. The discussion was about the question “Weather access to an open internet should be a human right?” Clearly knowing where I am standing on this issue (yes it should be!) …
Amazed by neo4j, gwt and my apache tomcat webserver
edit: the demo is finally online but on a different data set though: check out the demo and read about the new data set. An evaluation of graphity can be found here Besides reading papers I am currently implementing the infrastructure of my social news stream for the new metalcon version. For the very first …