Thomas Steiner (@tomayac)

Now at @tomayac@toot.cafe

The below is an off-site archive of all tweets posted by @tomayac ever

March 2010

.@gradesapp by @jerols’s an amazin suxess story. It’s a (no offense) deadsimple app (Web app had been good enough). See http://bit.ly/cfGpF6

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Carnage4Life When cashiers ask me for my phone number before I can pay, I now respond “Sorry, I’m not single” - shuts ‘em right up

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 1:00 AM, Mar 28th, 2010 via Echofon)

Moved to a new home. Run whois on one of my domains to find out where. Now unboxing ;-) DSL to come on April 1. High hopes…

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mikepinkerton We can finally repro the cmd-w-closes-all-tabs bug, it’s a problem with our shutdown code, not with the menu code.

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One of the rare occasions where I link to a Buzz of mine: http://bit.ly/9vHNDZ as 140 characters is just too short. Excellency by @timbray

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AxiomLaure Why I love Twitter: Google Analytics is down, but I thought it was just me. It’s not. Thanks, Twitter!

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@jos_tweets What’s that adidas sneaker doin’ there, dude? Seems like not exactly very busy ;-)

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Will there be a non-CDMA version of the new star ? Like the / thing. Anyone have any insights?

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vinoaj If you develop w/ the AdWords API, remember there are 30 days left for the v13 sunset.Start transitioning to v2009 now! http://bit.ly/aw4tyq

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Cool new service in the : Web service: http://bit.ly/9rx54L See a fascinating sample here: http://bit.ly/cBXhhC

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RT @frischkopp: Blogpost: European Court of Justice rules in Google’s favour http://is.gd/aU4fD

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Is anyone aware of a for “folder up” navigation on sites? E.g. move up from example.com/deep/down/ to example.com/deep/ ?

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@OneLag Still waiting for someone to find it for me. If I get no response, I’ll probably code it on my own.

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RT @sixtus42: in Practice http://bit.ly/9bHgDz [huge PDF ~50MB] /cc

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avivra Cross-Site Scripting through Flash in Gmail Based Services http://is.gd/aUoE1

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No more censorship in (.cn redirects to .com.hk) http://bit.ly/b1M1cb New status page on services avail. http://bit.ly/bnuWuQ

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Congratulations to all winning teams &aGTUG -s who participated in ttle! Thanks for awesome new extensions: http://bit.ly/b1RwOK

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‘s over! We got 9 - not just 6 - winners, as we were impressed by the quality & innovation of submissions: http://bit.ly/b1RwOK

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@bsletten Thanks a lot! Love the section where you mention long-running requests. Cheers!

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Trying to find out, why &aWSDL “suck” (blog post lingo on the topic). Need to translate to academic language. Fun :-) HinsPhD

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@byoogle Obviously he’s one of my main inspirations ;-) Already mentioned him in my Master thesis… Thanks for the pointer anyways! Cheers

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@_Yllier_ +1 for the awesome feature line-up. As seems to convert into , why not directly subscribe to common lists?

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@russenreaktor :-) Good work :-) Thanks! Does it auto-update?

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RT @vinoaj If you own a web app, use skipfish for security tests http://bit.ly/ctj9sk An open source project by Google http://bit.ly/9IOhRb

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@stilkov ruined the day indeed. Plus, as the spec is so -ly written, I’ll need at least another day to understand half of it…

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@onlythoughtwork Thanks, but not interested in getting to work in practice, just need to understand its powers & limitations.

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() global tracking opt-out coming in form of browser plugin: http://bit.ly/chq6Vd

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Reading on Richardson’s maturity model http://bit.ly/bwgTVF (via @stilkov)

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@filiber LOL, same here. It is just so much faster at everything. See http://bit.ly/aocnux :-)

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Looking at the &aUDDI docs w/ despair. Is incomprehensability intrinsicASIS specs? PhD bibliography: nusPhD

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Java project android-market-api: new (unofficial) way to programatically access the http://bit.ly/99hJqH (via @momogermany)

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@jerem Tried Qwerted.com? I know the guy behind it. @qwerted

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Dear , I didn’t mean to replace you w/ an powered . It just silently happened. We stay friends, OK? Tom

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@stilkov Exactly. You leave the key mapping as is, but display a warning (style is the same as when you hit “Eject”) when you hit caps.

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@onlythoughtwork I guess we will. Not sure about the process (does everyone want to have their extension published?). We will figure out.

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Wow! The Type-ahead-find Chrome extension emulates ’s “find as you type” feature in : http://bit.ly/aJtmFh

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Loving for seconds after I installed it. No more acciDENTAL UPPERCase cursing ;-) http://bit.ly/dqipEL (via @TUAW [blog])

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Tools needed for extension submission ranking: http://twitpic.com/195qaa Announcing winners on 22/03

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Dogfooding new firmwares on one’s primary phone feels darn bleeding edge. Especially when the fineprint says things might be rough.

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.@russenreaktor stats: 25 total submissions, 24 valid submissions, 21 browser actions, 3 page actions. The image’s pre-final ;-)

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Reviewing the submissions. Wow’ed!(!!) Definitely will keep some of’em installed. Congrats to all submitters!

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announced on seems like everybody’s darling so far. Microsoft seems to finally have gotten it right. Loving the co-op!

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Tim Bray (@timbray) joins #Google as #Android Developer Advocate: http://bit.ly/cM3QeF Welcome! (via @dewitt)

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Wow! 25 submissions to the 1st German so far. Now the judges will test the extensions, expect winners on March 22.

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RT @jerem: @tomayac #TomsPhD is my favorite saved search dude! Awesome to have some reminders on all of this :) // Merci :-D

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printminion RT @pfleidi: “Roses are violets are all my base are belong to you.” http://is.gd/ahpsQ

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Dear @DezFutak, this is to let you know that I am in no way interested in getting connected to you on random social networks. Just stop it.

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Today’s a classic again: http://bit.ly/doZXMJ Now seriously, for free w/ http://google.com/jsapi (google.loader.ClientLocation)

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3.0.4 fixed y’day’s auth issue. Thanks @echofon for the quick fix, thanks for the quick approval (sadly needs to be said).

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RT @GTUGNA, @gtugmunich: Hurry up for the last #GTUGbattle days! On March 14 laptops closed, pencils down http://bit.ly/dqf8Lj #Chrome #GTUG

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RT @pedrodias: is overhyped http://j.mp/apdDLG // well… I’ve been telling this for ages. //

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http://bit.ly/b7Q4ig random algorithm fixed to now use Fisher-Yates http://bit.ly/d3zBue Background post http://bit.ly/ck84TK

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video URLs to change: http://bit.ly/ajlFv8 Seems like dogfooding “A proposal for making AJAX crawlable”: http://bit.ly/bFLkuB

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Finally blogged my impressions from Mobile World Congress: Attending Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2010 http://bit.ly/aDmxpQ

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RT @echofon: v3.0.3 on has some issue with login. Change your pwd w/o symbols solves the issue temporarily. //

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notification API used for non-modal alerts in Google Calendar Labs: http://bit.ly/9enYlC Because modality sucks http://bit.ly/bJpGek

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Free German ebook: http://bit.ly/9IrxzZ [PDF] (via @droidcon, @olafgeibig, @nicolasgraemlich) ( ebook: http://bit.ly/9CfnRF)

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Re-reading my own Master Thesis: http://bit.ly/bZ2Lhv [PDF]

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@yeahrock Sure! Whenever I’m in Berlin next time, I’ll ping you. Feel free to do the same when you’re around Hamburg. Looking forward to it!

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@yeahrock Well, my project REST Describe & Compile http://bit.ly/bK3XwU neither really got beyond 0.7.2 (plus 1 fork) => PhD = more time :-)

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@jos_tweets Yeah, Tuesday is not PhD day. But customer meetings on last Monday & Tuesday required the PhD day shuffle… See ya tomorrow :-)

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Re-reading @yeahrock’s Master Thesis: http://bit.ly/9Mvfyz Good stuff!

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RT @jhaynie: Titanium Mobile SDK 1.0’s released & the ator Developer Network site http://www.appcelerator…. //Yay! Congrats!

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TGI_MoMo iPhone lessons from Google’s Nexus One http://bit.ly/av27DX - worth reading

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This is the Wave for today’s at : http://bit.ly/ajkDEd

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billyrutledge Point made and fair ask, developers want a roadmap for Android Market. We hear you and appreciated the criticism.

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Left at . Highly promising ideas (check the Wave), now looking forward to the finished extensions! Go code! Thx!

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@jerem Les tiens? Comment ça? Qu’est-ce que tu en fais?

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Wow, just met the coder of Qwerted (@qwerted) at . People show lots of love here. Expect most of’em at

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People discuss Chrome extension ideas publicly for @ before assigning persons to teams. This wants to win as team!

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at ideas discussion & group finding process. Old school via white board. I see synergies: http://twitgoo.com/ft93l

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Tags for today: #GTUGbattle, #GTUGna. Follow @GTUGNA. This is for the #GTUG Battle around Google Chrome extensions running in Germany.

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On my way to today’s extension round at Neckar-Alb () in Stuttgart (HdM, Nobelstr. 10). This is a homerun…

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Developing a Google (for or not)? Think of http://bit.ly/cnreKk & autoupdating http://bit.ly/cM6avj !!!

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@sixtus42 Hi Hagen! Wird deine Diss mal hier http://bit.ly/btXsbs erscheinen? Bin neugierig :-)

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@sixtus42 Ah, OK. Danke! Bin grad am Grundlagenforschen. WSDL/SOAP/WADL/REST/… Hartes Brot, aber nötig. Kannst HashtagD “folgen”.

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RT @pedrodias: Don’t miss: Google SEO report card http://j.mp/cpQeWk //

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Interesting read on the upgrade path: http://bit.ly/9a91Uv (via @googleos)

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@nemet LOL. Personally I rely on @cyanogen’s magic w/ regards to my G1. Gee whiz…

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CC-licensed ebook: Building Apps with HTML, CSS, & JavaScript - Making App Store Apps w/o Objective-C or Cocoa: http://bit.ly/9CfnRF

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@LordofGoats Saw this couple of days ago & put it immediately in #WTF drawer. I’#nero WiFi (http://fon.com) provider myself.

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@lazyb0y @krahn Reg. Nexus One availability & operators in DE: sorry, I have no insights into when this happe@frischkoppkopp might know more

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@TNVS Thanks for the feedback. Looking forward to the fixed version then. Uninstalled for now :-(

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Flight to Amsterdam canceled. Now mayor of airport & making a living from renting ports on my multi-outlet powound

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On my way to Amsterdam AMS from Hamburg HAM now via Zurich ZRH. Instead of 9AM now arriving at 2PM & a food voucher worth 7,5ufthansa

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Guy at Villa Borgmann Hotel asks for MAC address for WiFi (weird, as it’s open & free). Box of Kleenex discretely placed on TV…

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Wow, awesome: bought http://bit.ly/a4qvf8 I’m a long-time Picnik user, but had to google it every time b/o the name ‘c’|’k’?

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RT @codepo8: Amazed that none of the posts about Google’s acquisition of Picnik mentions that it is used in Flickr.

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