A place where I tell a bit http://radikahl.github.io When flying I always love to have an empty seat next to me - even better the entire row. Ryanair, however, isn’t know to be generous. But by exploiting an interesting peculiarity of their seat allocation algorithm you are able to increase the chances of having more space on your... Mon, 05 Sep 2016 00:00:00 +0100 http://radikahl.github.io/2016/09/05/travel-tip-more-space-on-ryanair.html http://radikahl.github.io/2016/09/05/travel-tip-more-space-on-ryanair.html I have posted 116 photos and videos to Instagram till writing this post. Not tremendously much but still enough to potentially see some interesting patterns or trends in my Instagram usage. I am using Python pandas in a Jupyter notebook with matplotlib to visualise the data. You can get the... Tue, 26 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0100 http://radikahl.github.io/2016/07/26/vizualizing-my-instagram-acitivty.html http://radikahl.github.io/2016/07/26/vizualizing-my-instagram-acitivty.html After using Schnitzelpress and a self-build hack for a long time I switched platforms again: Beautiful Jekyll hosted on Github. Of course, I handcrafted it to my needs: More control over the post teasers (aka excerpts). By re-activating the excerpt_separator YAML parameter I can precisely define how how long the... Sun, 10 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0100 http://radikahl.github.io/2016/07/12/new-software-for-the-blog.html http://radikahl.github.io/2016/07/12/new-software-for-the-blog.html Sun, 14 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://radikahl.github.io/2016/02/16/tokyo-and-hakone-in-stop-motion.html http://radikahl.github.io/2016/02/16/tokyo-and-hakone-in-stop-motion.html viewer Tue, 17 Mar 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://radikahl.github.io/2015/03/17/viewer.html http://radikahl.github.io/2015/03/17/viewer.html TL;DR Uninstall app. Go to Play website. Login your preferred account. Request remote install of the app. In-app purchases can now be paid with your preferred account. On my Android phone I use two Google accounts: my private and my work account. Both are linked to the Play store. While... Fri, 02 May 2014 00:00:00 +0100 http://radikahl.github.io/2014/05/02/change-account-for-in-app-purchases.html http://radikahl.github.io/2014/05/02/change-account-for-in-app-purchases.html I love Spotify’s new web player. No Ads and no weekly limit for no cash. I guess, that’s due to its Beta status. Anyway, it’s great because it works on Linux :) Btw: Even though the link to the player sends you by Facebook, you don’t need to have a... Sat, 01 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000 http://radikahl.github.io/2012/12/01/spotify-in-browser.html http://radikahl.github.io/2012/12/01/spotify-in-browser.html With Apps Script the Google Apps get a lot more powerful. Unfortunately, the first steps are not too easy. I found it fairly hard to grasp the mental model of how the scripts interact with the Apps. With a little script and some accompanying description I hope to provide the... Tue, 20 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000 http://radikahl.github.io/2012/11/30/first-steps-apps-script-read-from-and-write-to-spreadheat.html http://radikahl.github.io/2012/11/30/first-steps-apps-script-read-from-and-write-to-spreadheat.html Debugging Apple’s Push Notification service is a pain. Only little feedback if the dispatched notification was malformed or in some other way erroneous. But even worse is the service’s accompanying feedback service. The feedback service provides an iOS developer with a list of devices that have uninstalled your app. Debugging... Sat, 16 Jun 2012 00:00:00 +0100 http://radikahl.github.io/2012/06/16/debugging-tip-for-feedback-service-of-apns.html http://radikahl.github.io/2012/06/16/debugging-tip-for-feedback-service-of-apns.html Yeah… nerd level increased by a bit. Finally there is code running again under my domain that I can actually see, read, browser, change, modify and eat :) Anyway… even though there is a very straightforward step-by-step guide for setting up the blog software, I ran into a little problem:... Mon, 28 May 2012 00:00:00 +0100 http://radikahl.github.io/2012/05/28/schnitzeling.html http://radikahl.github.io/2012/05/28/schnitzeling.html I wouldn’t have thought, but the VGA cable might be the cause why your computer doesn’t correctly recognized your monitor. It was driving me crazy. My MacBook wasn’t able to use my sister’s display with its native resolution. I tried loads of stuff to get it working. I really needed... Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000 http://radikahl.github.io/2012/01/04/vga-cable-matter.html http://radikahl.github.io/2012/01/04/vga-cable-matter.html As mentioned in my last post, it is not too easy to migrate from a normal Gmail account to a Google Apps account. Lots of tools do not bring satisfying results. The only tool that brought the best results was imapsync. Being a command-line tool, it is not easy to... Fri, 09 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0100 http://radikahl.github.io/2011/09/09/step-by-step-from-gmail-to-google-apps-mail-with-imapsync.html http://radikahl.github.io/2011/09/09/step-by-step-from-gmail-to-google-apps-mail-with-imapsync.html After being unhappy with Gmail’s handling of my custom email address (email@mydomain.tld) for quite some time, I came across my colleague’s newly written blog article about transitioning from a normal Google account (@gmail.com) to a Google Apps account (@mydomain.tld). A few conversations later I was confident and excited enough to... Sun, 07 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0100 http://radikahl.github.io/2011/08/07/tools-roundup-for-migrating-google-apps-mail.html http://radikahl.github.io/2011/08/07/tools-roundup-for-migrating-google-apps-mail.html irish riviera Sun, 03 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0100 http://radikahl.github.io/2011/07/03/irish-reviera.html http://radikahl.github.io/2011/07/03/irish-reviera.html Today, I started to work again with the fast and small but powerful PHP framework Kohana. I used Kohana 1 on a Linux machine years ago but now it’s Kohana 3.1 on Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard). Anyway, shortly after the successful installation I wanted to get rid of... Thu, 19 May 2011 00:00:00 +0100 http://radikahl.github.io/2011/05/19/url-rewrite-with-kohana-on-osx.html http://radikahl.github.io/2011/05/19/url-rewrite-with-kohana-on-osx.html silhouette Sat, 02 Apr 2011 00:00:00 +0100 http://radikahl.github.io/2011/04/02/silhouette.html http://radikahl.github.io/2011/04/02/silhouette.html follow the white rabbit Fri, 07 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000 http://radikahl.github.io/2011/01/07/follow-the-white-rabbit.html http://radikahl.github.io/2011/01/07/follow-the-white-rabbit.html black river Fri, 07 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000 http://radikahl.github.io/2011/01/07/black-river.html http://radikahl.github.io/2011/01/07/black-river.html kiruna sunset Wed, 05 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000 http://radikahl.github.io/2011/01/05/kiruna-sunset.html http://radikahl.github.io/2011/01/05/kiruna-sunset.html northern lights Tue, 04 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000 http://radikahl.github.io/2011/01/04/northern-lights.html http://radikahl.github.io/2011/01/04/northern-lights.html