What I've read - Week 42/13

Actually this is my reading list from the last several weeks. I haven’t had the time to write these down, though, since we were preparing for ICNP 2013. Since me and my teammate are developing an overlay P2P network for Browsers we are especially interested in implementation patterns for such overlays. One very well-known paper is the one from Dabek et al. titled “Towards a Common API for Structured Peer-to-Peer Overlays”....

October 15, 2013

What I've read - Week 38/13

This week I stumbled across an interesting overview paper by Srinivasan Keshav (author of “Mathematical Foundations of Computer Networking”, which I already own since some days): Naming, Addressing, and Forwarding Reconsidered The paper provides the reader with an easy to understand and profound overview of how entities (Internet computers, mailboxes, phones) are addressed. Keshav introduces the concept of location independent identifiers (LII) and location specific identifiers (LSI). The separation of LII and LSI allows for a better understanding of how an indirection (e....

September 20, 2013

[Update] The quest for a suitable device to read PDFs

Still having some time left in this summer break I started a little side project: I will try to find the best device for reading PDFs – especially scientific papers. Why? Because I don’t want to print out every paper I may (or may not, in the end) read for ecological and economical reasons. (This post will be updated with my latest results from time to time.) I’ll try to narrow down the slippery word best from above:...

September 9, 2013

Migration to Jekyll - my new Blog system

This blog has been hosted on Google’s Blogger platform ever since its incarnation. The decision to use Blogger was a quite hasty one and I was never really satisfied by how Blogger works. But as many of you probably have already experienced, once you decide in favor of a piece of software you can’t change that easily. It’s not that my blog was locked-in on Blogger’s features or something. In fact it just worked and I had no real incentive to take the time for evaluating alternatives....

September 4, 2013

Why I love Free Software

Today is Valentine’s day and I take the opportunity to follow the Free Software Foundation’s call to spread my love for Free Software. I love Free Software! Usually people argue about using Free Software with technical or cost-related benefits like you’re able to look into the source code, incorporate your patches immediately or don’t have to pay any license fees. All of this is true, naturally, but I love Free Software for many more of its benefits....

February 14, 2013