Tobias Scholze
We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done. - Alan Turing
#communityrocks
One for all, all for one
One of my daily activities is to participate actively in diffrent, mostly tech-based, communities.
The spirit and the advantageous momentum of a vivid community is just phenomenal. It empowers everyone to give there best - what ever it is.
If you speak German, you may want to join the following communities where i am active in the past or now.
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Content creation
"Aus dem Leben eines stotternden Nerds" YouTube channel
My German YouTube channel is meant as an additional experiment to cope with my speech impediment. Working with moving images was always a kind of content creation that I liked. I started with a huge VHS tape recoder and now ended on YoutTube.
"The Stuttering Nerd" TikTok account
My German TikTok account is mainly targeted to create awarness for people that stutter or to provide a point-of-you on how it is to cope with a chronical illness such as multiple sklerose.
"La-La-Laber doch" podcast
La-La-Laber doch! was my German podcast experiment. It features my own bug, the stuttering, as a feature and as main topic of the diffrent episodes.
Personal blog
Blogging was my very first kind of content creation which I started over a decade ago. I like to write small articles about things that keep my thinking at this point in my life.
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Surface Duo related projects
Motiviation
Foldable devices, in this case the Surface Duo, are a tiny niche. As an advocate of iPhone and iPad, I have to admit that it is exciting to try other form factors of devices. It's something new than the eternal same. What is a negative point for the business field is a real blessing for pet projects. The still very small community of developers creates much closer ties between, for example, the Microsoft developer expierence team.
Projects
#rTsd was work my very first Xamarin.Forms Android project which is intended to feature most of the new features that makes the Microsoft Surface Duo phone unique. It uses the awesome German Dr. Windows as data source for its articles.
DuoBahn for Surface Duo will be my first Kotlin Compose-based Android app for foldable devices that uses the federal German Autobahn API as a data source.
RssBook Read your RSS feed like it would be an ebook - A sample Android app written in Google's Flutter that demonstrates the unique features of a Surface Duo.
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#rTsd - Road to Surface Duo
Xamarin.Forms community project
This is a work in progress Xamarin.Forms Android project which is intended to feature most of the new features that makes the upcoming Microsoft Surface Duo phone unique.
It will use the awesome German Dr. Windows news portal as data source for its articles.
The share my experiences in learning Xamarin.Forms and to encourage more people to start with learning a programming language, I write a article series about my road to surface duo also on drwindows.de.
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How it looks
Keep in mind
This is a self-learning app which makes it progress via learning-by-doing. This means, that some code could be non-perfect. I guess everything has room for improvement. It would be great if some experienced developer could have a look.
HomeBear
My app family for Windows 10 IoT Core
Microsoft Windows 10 IoT Core an operating system that runs on a Raspberry Pi.
It supports also UWP-apps which enables to utilizes a great development ecosystem using C#, XAML and Visual Studio.
Many of the apps are built on top of Pimoroni products like the RainbowHAT.
Apps
ToboT - Google Assistant-controlled car built with Android Things and Firebase
ToboT
ToboT is an Android Things application to move a vehicle based on the Pimoroni STS Pi Kit. It also contains different other remote control methods like a website that is hosted on the vehicle or simple Google Assistant voice commands to let it move it ahead, left, right, backwards or it lets the vehicle stop. Tobot was never be intend to be more than a great and enjoyable sparetime project. That means, no code is production-ready.
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- Related blog article (German)
- Blog article about the Google Assistant integration (German)
- Github page
How it looks
Keep in mind
To run this app by yourself, you will need a valid settings file for Firebase and an own Google Assistant Action. The database will be created by it self.
Happy Reads - AI based news reader
Happy Reads
This is a simple use case and play-around app to use the Microsoft Cognitive Services Text Analytics API. It parses the English version of the Deutsche Welle news and calculates the individual happiness of each article.
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How it looks
Keep in mind
To run this app by yourself, you will need a valid key for the Text API.
Apfeltalk Live tvOS App
Apple TV app
apfeltalk,de is (one of) the biggest German speaking Communities related to Apple products, services and users.
This app is a video on demand service for apfeltalk's long-running, weekly live show called apfeltalk live.
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How it looks
dbudwm
Native apps
dbudwm is an abbreviation for "Der Bayer und der Würschtlmann". A little spare time blog from a good old fellow and me.
I need always a concrete motiviation to learn something new and to stay focused. I tried to teach myself Swift and other iOS related stuff by writting a small app for this blog.
Both apps are written natively without the use of Xamarin or other wrappers.
Information: dbudwm was the predecessor of this blog.
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How it looks
Nomster
Swift and Web-Components playground
The reason why this project exists: We needed an usecase to experiment with something new. Nomster is an approach to simplify the "what shall we eat at lunch time?" process. It provides a CRUD-mechanism for lunch ideas. The project has a lossly tied module system.
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How it looks
Contributor
Feel free to join!
Nomster is a playground to learn something new. Feel free to join, fork or even criticize the sourcecode!
Quotes
Python and Django playground
Just another place to submit and vote for unique, funny or weird sentences of your team mates.
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How it looks
Contributor
- UI, Server: tscholze
Feel free to join!
Quotes is a playground to learn something new. Feel free to join, fork or even criticize the sourcecode!
CEP-based Logistics
Logistics 2.0 - Visualization of an event-processed RFID-Scanner
Using RFID tags and light barriers to capture arrival and exit of goods. In this project with the combined force of students of the informatics and economic faculties a solution for using RFID technology to asses logisics was created.
We used Java, ESPER, Hibernate and other awesome tools to build this sixth semester project.
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How it looks
Publication
Contributors
- Monstermunchkin
- tscholze
- and other non-Github'er...
Feel free to remember
Code never dies. Be proud of your old code and do not forget mistakes. You get better with every single line of code you write!
HASI
Home Analytical System Interface
While the need for more efficient use of energy is commonly accepted, for the individual it is often difficult to act accordingly. [...]. However, the provision of information about energy consumption alone does not necessarily imply acting. Rather, assisting people in actually changing their behaviours is a much harder challenge. HASI was born in 2011 and died in 2015 (other project).
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How it looks
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- Monstermunchkin
- tscholze
- and other non-Github'er...
Contributors
Feel free to remember
Code never dies. Be proud of your old code and do not forget mistakes. You get better with every single line of code you write!
Almost forgotten projects
Why forgotten?
Everything moves one. I deleted a lot of my old repositories *what a shame* but a few survived.