Ok, zugegeben, der alte Hoster, den ich für mein Webhosting hatte, war spitze (http://www.xenonserver.de), aber irgendwann steigen die Ansprüche. So war es bei mir zumindest: Ich wollte mehr. Darum habe ich mich kurzerhand dazu entschlossen, bei hosteurope.de einen VServer zu ordern. Deshalb war die Site gestern auch für einige Stunden nicht erreichbar, denn ich habe die komplette Site mit Datenbank auf den neuen Server umziehen müssen. In den nächsten Tagen geschieht dann das selbe mit allen Subdomains, parabella.org und dumpspot.net.

Danach ist die Sache allerdings noch nicht gegessen, die Domains müssen alle noch transferiert werden. Daher kann es in den nächsten Tagen nochmal zu einem Ausfall der Website kommen. Ich bin selber gespannt, wie die Sache verläuft! 

Finally there is a drummingvideo with better sound and video quality! I am, as always, just messing around onmy Yamaha Drumset as it's much fun (that's what it's all about, isn't it?). So, here's the video on Youtube:

What Tools did I use to record this video?

Videorecording with my new webcam: Logitech C250
Soundrecording: Some t.Bone Microphones and a Behringer 1202FX

And, of course, sorry for my mistakes. The whole thing might be a little sloppy, and there is some speed acceleration at certain moments, but all in all it sounds pretty good (well, that's how I think about it :D) 

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXzXL2DY6rY 

...just for fun! 

frozen sniper, the creator and admin of the prestigious Uber Sniper Clan (former known as the "Elite Sniper League") had the idea, to open up more such clans as there could be similar clans for other classes in TF2 (for example Scout and Spy). In correspondence to those clan we came up with the idea to start a Gaming Community called UGC- Uber gaming Community. At the moment there is only a special group on Steam where we are trying to collect members and increase the groups size. As soon as we think it makes sense, we'll also launch a special website. But first of all, we need a huge amount of members. We started two days ago, let's see if it will work out for the community!

As we wrote on the Steam-group: "When you take a look at this page, you might think that we are just an ordinary community that offers servers for people to play on...but we are not. In fact, Uber Gaming Community is a "clan community" that offers several kinds of clans to you. All these clans are supposed to be "Prestige-Clans", or you might also say "Skill-Clans". That means you will only be able to get into the clan of your choice, if you can fulfill the requirements and succeed in a test-match. Help us to make this community bigger by joining this group and applying for the membership in one of our Uber Gaming Clans. Invite all of your friends! The more members this community has, the more this community will do for you. We are aiming at getting our own servers once we've got enough members and, of course, to establish new clans!

Uber Gaming Clans available at the moment:

USC - Uber Snipers Clan (former known as ESL - Elite Sniper League)

Clans to come when this community counts more members:

USpC - Uber Spies Clan (at least 200 members required)
UScC - Uber Scouts Clan (at least 400 members required)

Being a member of this community also gives you the permission to show your membership by adding the tag "UGC" to your nickname. Members of any Skill-Clan might also want to add their respective clantag (USC, USpC, and so on). We also offer a Forum for the members of the Uber Snipers Clan. Once we've got enough members, UGC will also get a professional website with Forums for all members! Stay tuned, invite your friends, have fun!

Current Uber Snipers Clan Forums: http://www.uscclan.tk"

Let's see if it will succeed. Anyways, it is just a fun-thing. Breaking the 1000-members checkpoint would be awesome though! And, of course, feel free to join :D 

Das Jahr 2009 ging zu Ende und ein neues Jahr bricht an! 2010 bringt neue Chancen, neue Erfahrungen und hoffentlich auch neue Projekte mit sich! Ich persönlich habe mir einiges an Projekten vorgenommen:

• PGELua for Windows
• Webprojekt "Marksman" 
• irgendwie in die Anwendungsentwicklung für Mac einsteigen (dazu braucht man aber eben einen Mac)

Ich wünsche euch allen auf jeden Fall ein frohes neues Jahr und hoffe, dass auch ihr alle wieder tolle Sachen auf die Beine stellt!

English: Google was so very kind to send out a lot of new invite-waves that give its recipient the ability to invite more people to Google Wave. I myself received 16 invites that I might forward to other people. You can be one of those people! Since I've got so many invites left, just respond to this news (that means you have to write a comment). Don't forget: you have to be registered with your valid email-address since I am going to send these invites to the email-addresses stored in my database!

Deutsch: Google hat vor kurzem jede Menge neue Invite-Waves versendet, die ihrem Empfänger ermöglichen, neue Leute zu Google Wave einzuladen. Ich persönlich habe 16 Invites bekommen, die ich nun auch gerne weitergeben würde. Du kannst einer von diesen glücklichen Leuten sein! Um dich für einen Invite zu bewerben brauchst du nur einen Kommentar ("write a comment") auf diese News verfassen. Achtung: Du musst registriert sein und eine korrekte Email-Adresse angegeben haben, denn ich werde die Invites an die in meiner Datenbank gespeicherten Email-Adressen senden!

I have 7 5 Google Wave invitations left, and of course I cannot just let them be. I am certain there are people around who really need a Google Wave invite. And especially those people should have the chance to get one, so I dedided to start a small "competition":

In order to get one of those seven invites, you have to register at bumuckl.com (There is OpenID and Google Account support, that means you might sign in immediately). Then just login and move to the Forums where you navigate to Webdevelopment->Other category. Open up the Topic "Google Wave invitations application" and reply to it.

What to write? The actual competition is to write your ideas for robots and gadgets. The best ideas will be rewarded with a Google Wave invite. Don't be shy, I won't steal any of your ideas. It is just to see how much you tinker with Google Wave and how important an invitation is for you. If you do not want to post your ideas publicly, then you can also just write a personal message to me (bumuckl). Go to the Topic here:

Bumuckl.com Forum: Webdevelopment: Other: Google Wave invitation application 

No matter if Google Wave is still not even in beta-phase, it has already been possible to develop extensions and addons. In general Google Wave differentiates between Robots and Gadgets. One on its own or both put together form a so called Google Wave extension. To be more precisely, a Robot is an application that runs on an external server (at the moment only on appspot.com) and works as a participant of a Wave (therefore you have to add a robot to your contacts list). In contrast to the Robot, a Gadget runs on the client and has to be installed. 

Since Google Wave offers a wide range of innovative project development, I'd like to introduce you into the Google Wave Robots. Instead of a huge tutorial on how to create one, I just want to give you a fully working Testrobot. As Google suggests, it's a real Eclipse IDE project. Make sure you've got a Google Wave account, Eclipse IDE + Java ee Package and Google Wave SDK addons installed.

A huge tutorial on how to set up all this stuff and creating your first robot will follow!

Download: Google wave Testrobot 

Finally, my Google Wave invite has arrived in my email inbox this morning. And of course I could not wait and accepted the invite immediately. My first impression of Google Wave was: WOW! There are loads of videos around the web that show Google Wave in detail, but to really recognize the power of this revolutionary project you need to figure it out on your own. Especially the possibilities to create Google Wave extensions might offer a great chance for everybody to earn some money and gain financial advantages!

So far, does it work, is it stable? Google themselves states, that Wave is still not even in beta state and it indeed is unstable. Well, I have not noticed any bugs yet (within those 30 minutes of discovering and testing Google Wave). Unfortunately, controlling Google Wave seems not to be that easy. But as always, you need to get used to things, and so do you in case of Google Wave.

Google Wave can be executed in browsers like Google Chrome, Firefox and Safari. Unfortunately Opera cannot run Google Wave properly, as soon as you launch it, you will be presented an error message (at startup of Google wave you are also told about the incompatibility to Opera). Just to mention a few details about Google Wave: At the moment you cannot remove any participants you recently added to a Wave (this is still to come, I guess). Extensions are already available in form of Gadgets and Robots and a combination of both. I assume there are about 3500 Google Wave developers around that work on their own extensions. This is gonna be so BIG! 

I decided to take care of my webapplication "Codebase" one more time. There have been a lot of things that I suggested not to be that good. One basi thing was the design, it was really awful. So I took the time to create an absolutely new one! I also recognized that Codebase does not just have to be a code collaboration website, it had to be more than that. That's why I also implemented some math tools, and I think I will implement even more than that. You might want to set up CodebaseR3 on your webspace as well, so you can read some installation instructions and more detailed information in the respective article under "My Projects" - "Webapplications" - "Codebase". All in all, Codebase R3 has changed extremely in comparison to Codebase R2:

• - the built in editor allows to insert tabs by hitting the tabulator button
• - PHP code is now also correctly displayed
• - some security risks have been fixed
• - completely new design
• - changed from jQuery to mootools
• - added a graph plotter and a (La)Tex Viewer/Math ML
• - added spam checks
• - added a badword filter (submissions containing those words will not be accepted)
• - improved integration for social communities
• - added an API for external usage of Codebase and Website integration

Download: CodebaseR3 alias Parabella Codebase 

The demo website for CodebaseR3, which i especially call "Parabella Codebase", will move from http://codebase.bumuckl.com to http://www.parabella.org ! Stay tuned for further updates!

I was and I still am very excited about Google Wave. I really believe that it will change the internet a lot when it finally becomes stable and available for public. Several months ago, people had the chance to register for an invitation for a developer account. The sending of invitations has started a few weeks ago.

What exactly is Google Wave? 

W00t?! You haven't heard of Google Wave, one of Google's latest awesome projects?! Google Wave has got the potential to become the revolutionary, innovative web product of the next years. If people are willing to accept it as an alternative to eMail, the web will change dramatically, because it brings things you have always thought about, but never dared to ask about! Google Wave is a web-browser based real time "conversation and anything else" client. By standard you can have chat conversations with other people in real time, which means if you type something in, your conversation partner will see your typings immediately, even if you rethink and change them! The great thing about this is the enormous flexibility and extendability. Everybody who wants to may develop so called Robots or Gadgets, and since the project is OpenSource you can grab the API and or the code and develop your own independent wave web applications. Google has also announced to build a "Google Wave Appstore" where Wave-developers can distribute their creations (and earn loads of money).

I really look forward to having being sent an invitation for this innovative product. Honestly, I don't want to wait any longer, I have to get one! If anybody of you guys has got one invitation left, please hand it to me, because I am still waiting for a Google wave invite... 

Sopran R1 is meant to be a homebrew-webbrowser for Sony PSP. It was designed to replace the embarassing built-in PSP webbrowser. But since I decided to stop PSP development I also stopped working on Sopran. However, Sopran is available in work-in-progress (W.I.P) revision 6. The template engine is almost fully integrated, coming along with a pretty nice design. Typing is much easier due to the embedded Danzeff OSK. Tabbed browsing is also supported and you can establish connections to websites. The main thing that is missing is the HTML-Renderengine.

Anyway, I didn't develop such a great thing to just drop it in development state and let it R.I.P. Even though it's not complete, it might be helpful for people that are learning Lua right now. So I decided to give it away, to give it to the people, to give it to you, so that you can profit on the sourcecode. Maybe you want to continue this great project (I would be pleased if anybody did).

However, below there is the downloadlink to the latest sourcecode:

Download: Sopran R1 #WIP 6

Das Team Bolt, das auch auf Bumuckl.com im Forum aktiv ist, hat die Demo ihres "Second Life"-Klones veröffentlicht. Das Projekt wurde in Lua realisiert und ist komplett in 3D. Die Demo selbst wirkt schon sehr beeindruckend, es lassen sich mehrere Gegenstände benutzen und man kann durch ein Haus gehen. Wir sind auf jeden Fall schon sehr gespannt, was die volle Version mit sich bringt.

Download: E-Life Demo 

"incLib" is meant to play LuaPlayer-Scripts on PGELua, but since the performance decreases rapidly and we had to cut down a lot of functions, we decided to stop the development. "incLib" is a simple library distributed as a .lua file that contains most of the functions you can find in LuaPlayer Cools mod and LuaPlayerHM. More than 50% of the functions have successfully been embedded, but there are still a lot of functions left. Many of them will never work, because there is no equivalent function available in PGELua. However, if you need some parts of it, or if you want to do further development, or if you just want to learn of it a little bit, fell free to download the source.

Download: incLib #WIP 12 

You can also access the project at Googlecode: http://code.google.com/p/inclib/

Only few days since the release of Codebase Revision 1 the next version is ready. Codebase R2, or Codebase Revision 2, comes along with some minor changes.

Here is the Changelog:  

• Added line numbers to code presentation
• Added selection box to resubmission form
• fixed some minor bugs

If you have got any suggestions or ideas, feel free to let me know via the Bumuckl.com Forums. Have fun!

Demo: http://codebase.bumuckl.com

Download: Codebase R2