It’s been more than a year since I defended my thesis. I still have mixed feelings when I look back on the 4th December 2008, not because of the defence but other thinks that happened back then — good and unfortunately also bad ones.

One of the good things that happened that day: my colleagues and friends built a really great mortarboard (Doktorhut in German), and you definitively have to use the verb “build” because it actually is an actuated, blinking piece of metal and carpet. Yes, carpet. Great stuff, really!

So, yesterday I finally decided to pick it up. Carrying such a big (and admittedly funny-looking) thing in the train and tram is really challenging, it’s just like having a fellow passenger. With only small damage we both finally reached our home, my flat in Bremen.

Thanks guys for the past years!

RoboCup-Doktorhut :)

This week, the last days, yesterday, today: hoping, thrilling, breathtaking, relieving. Happy :)

Back in 2005, we decided to use Subversion scm for the source code management in the Carpe Noctem project. This decision survived the last four years but based on what we experienced during this time – we even managed to somehow blown up our repositories –, the team decided to switch over to git after the World Championships 2009. We’ll have to see how things work out now and if people manage to come to grips with the new system.

Today, I tried to merge some changes for the new Spica version. As I maintained a separate repository for this purpose, I wasn’t sure about how well git merges these data. Surprisingly, it went just smooth. Only about eight simply conflicts needed to be solved. This resulted in my first lightly more complex git tree. Looks interesting in gitk :)

git history

I just read an article on heise.de that summarises the results of the 13th RoboCup World Championships. With a big surprise I discovered that Gerhard and his team the b-it-bots won the RoboCup @home tournament and became world champion! A really great achievement, my congratulations — no, congratulations from the whole team!

Just like the b-it-bots, the 1. RFC Stuttgart managed to win both, the RoboCup German Open and the World Championships 2009. It was a great match against Tech United! Our congratulations to this great success!

Exultant Mood after RFC's Second GoalFeaturing Andi

The match against Mostly Harmless is scheduled for 17:00, as already pointed out in the last post. We already started preparation, I’ll try to keep this post updated.

17:57: End Game

17:55: Goal! CN 3 – 0 Mostly Harmless (actually no goal, because it was just rolling towards and into the goal)
17:xx: Game Started (Second Half)

17:32: Half Time

17:30: Goal! CN 2 – 0 Mostly Harmless (time approx)
17:17: Goal! CN 1 – 0 Mostly Harmless
17:17: Game Started (First Half)