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"Working with LaTeX" (original German: "Arbeiten mit LaTeX") is the title for a seminar that I have conducted in the fall semester 2011/12 for the Department of Computer Science, University of Hamburg.

The video lectures are collected here.

All videos are published under CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0.

Music: (A) in Mono - Cube-shaped, used under CC-BY-NC 3.0.

Financially supported by the Dept. of Computer Science, University of Hamburg.

This Lightning Talk was held in the KunterBuntesSeminar organized by Computer Science students in Hamburg, it was the first one of the session.

The subject was Piwik, a free and open source tool for website analytics. I explained the basic idea and showcased the possibilities for anonymization and data protection as well as other advantages of Piwik.

This is a timelapse recording of me creating the slides for my talk about software reuse, based on chapter 16 of Ian Sommerville's popular book "Software Engineering". Five to six hours of screen recording have been condensed to five minutes for this video.

Tools used: LaTeX, Kile, Inkscape, yEd (shortly), Firefox, evince and probably more. Running Ubuntu Linux 11.10.

Music: Approaching Nirvana with Bangers & Smashed, available on Bandcamp or iTunes.

In the "Interaction Design" course of 2011 at the Dept. of Informatics, University of Hamburg, students for Human Computer Interaction, Informatics and Business Informatics took part in a project centered around the game Neverball. This video presents the results.

University of Hamburg, Dept. of Informatics

Music: Kevin MacLeod, CC-BY 3.0 "Wallpaper", "Cipher", "Slow Burn" (in order of appearance)

This lightning talk was held in the KunterBuntesSeminar. I introduced the topic with the first slide and then showed live how to transition from Thunderbrid's own notifications to using Notify OSD (and also the indicator applet, incidentally) on a typical Ubuntu Linux desktop.

For the downloadable slides here, a summary of what to do has been added.

In this Lightning Talk, held at the KunterBuntesSeminar, I presented a small tool called sshuttle and compared it to other, more well-known software solutions.

The Department of Computer Science at the University of Hamburg uses, among other things, IP-based authentication for access control. This means that there are some resources, e.g. on the web, which can only be accessed from the Dept. of Computer Science IP subnet. To access these resources from home, it is necessary to create and use some sort of connection to the CS net. This can be accomplished by connecting to the VPN or by establishing an SSH connection. The tool I showcased, sshuttle, promises a new way to solve this problem by tunneling IP traffic through a simple SSH connection using iptables. This idea has several advantages over the alternatives.

This talk was held in the KunterBunteSeminar, a workshop conducted by the students of the Computer Science department, University of Hamburg.

It was conceived as a general introduction to working with LaTeX, primarily appropriate for absolute beginners. I gave an overview of how LaTeX documents are structured and how packages are included. Next, I spent a lot of time going over the most important and well-known packages (such as KOMA-Script and Beamer). Also included were some handy tips and tricks that hopefully help make LaTeX more fun and less daunting.

At the end, we had a look at the LaTeX code of some example documents I prepared: a simple official-looking letter, the current version of my bachelor thesis, and the very slides for this presentation.

This is a lightning talk (five minutes in duration) that was held at the KunterBuntesSeminar in the summer of 2010.

In it, I addressed the differences between a EULA (like a lot of proprietary software use them) and a permissive license like the GPL, which is used, among others, by the Linux kernel. Most importantly, I explained why there's no "accept the GPL" screen during a Linux installation.