Felix Hürlimann http://www.felix-huerlimann.com still enjoying my first life Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:36:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 en Firstname to Gender Guesser http://www.felix-huerlimann.com/2008/01/31/firstname-to-gender-guesser/ http://www.felix-huerlimann.com/2008/01/31/firstname-to-gender-guesser/#comments Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:36:38 +0000 fxh http://www.felix-huerlimann.com/2008/01/31/firstname-to-gender-guesser/ Almost one year past and no post, what a blog! Well, I am not even trying to find reasons why I was so lazy. Anyway, here is a piece of recent work: Inspired by the True Knowledge API have I written my own version of a firstname to gender guesser. It has its focus mainly on german speaking countries within Europe. You can try it out here. It is available in english and german and there is a xml interface to it as well. Feedback is welcome.

]]> http://www.felix-huerlimann.com/2008/01/31/firstname-to-gender-guesser/feed/ Full Text Indexing versus Tagging http://www.felix-huerlimann.com/2007/02/16/full-text-indexing-versus-tagging/ http://www.felix-huerlimann.com/2007/02/16/full-text-indexing-versus-tagging/#comments Fri, 16 Feb 2007 20:29:57 +0000 fxh http://www.felix-huerlimann.com/2007/02/16/full-text-indexing-versus-tagging/ I gave a talk about “Full Text Indexing versus Tagging, or how to tag full text index” at webtuesday. The slides of the talk can be found here.

]]> http://www.felix-huerlimann.com/2007/02/16/full-text-indexing-versus-tagging/feed/ flickr + dhtml = flickrSkins http://www.felix-huerlimann.com/2007/01/25/flickr-dhtml-flickrskins/ http://www.felix-huerlimann.com/2007/01/25/flickr-dhtml-flickrskins/#comments Thu, 25 Jan 2007 21:11:55 +0000 fxh http://www.felix-huerlimann.com/2007/01/25/a-b-flickrskins/ where the dhtml comes from http://www.dhteumeuleu.com/ and flickr is well known, I guess.

The result from the merging of the two can be seen here.

Read more about it and download the code here.

]]> http://www.felix-huerlimann.com/2007/01/25/flickr-dhtml-flickrskins/feed/ my five things … http://www.felix-huerlimann.com/2007/01/17/my-five-things/ http://www.felix-huerlimann.com/2007/01/17/my-five-things/#comments Wed, 17 Jan 2007 20:13:07 +0000 fxh http://www.felix-huerlimann.com/2007/01/17/my-five-things/ … I always wanted to include into a webpage once:
i) a Google Map
ii) some AJAX
iii) a PayPal ‘donation’ button
iv) Google Ads
v) and a TagCloud

And now, finally, with a little spare time over new year and an idea developed at a local.ch x-mas event, I managed to play around with the first four of this list and included them into this handy service: http://www.where-is-my-husband.com. It is released as early alpha, far from being finished or bug-free. But hey, have a look and let me know what you think and the bugs you found. A version for the male part of the society will follow.

So, what is the purpouos of this site? Well, nothing. Or just a few things: first of all having some fun and maybe getting some answers to the following questions:
- Is there ever someone going to be who actually donates something if you have this paypal button on your site and stay more or less anonymous? Or are all these buttons out there a waste of time and bytes?
- How long will it take to get the domain registration fee back with Google Ads money? Is the year long enough?
If I get some answers, I will post them here. Stay tuned.

And finally for the fifth thing, the TagCloud: I had no idea how to squeeze that one in too, but I had a different ideas what I would like to do with a tagcloud and I started another pet-project for that. More to come as soon as it is ready to be shared.

]]> http://www.felix-huerlimann.com/2007/01/17/my-five-things/feed/ Today is good day … http://www.felix-huerlimann.com/2007/01/01/today-is-good-day/ http://www.felix-huerlimann.com/2007/01/01/today-is-good-day/#comments Mon, 01 Jan 2007 11:19:10 +0000 fxh http://www.felix-huerlimann.com/2007/01/01/today-is-good-day/ … to start a brand new homepage!

Happy New Year to everybody.

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