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<p>As I’m currently working to get a master’s degree in university, I had to write
a seminar paper. I got lucky and the topic “Chatty Things – Making the Internet
of Things Readily Usable with XMPP” sounded very interesting to me <img src="https://rohieb.name/smileys/smile.png" alt=":-)" /> As the
title suggests, the paper describes how the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMPP" title="Wikipedia: XMPP">XMPP</a> protocol can be employed to
facilitate user access to smart devices in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_of_Things" title="Wikipedia: Internet of Things">Internet of Things</a>, and
some thoughts on preventing information overflow on the user. If this sounds
interesting to you as well, you should read my <a href="https://rohieb.name/docs/skm-ma-chatty-things-paper.pdf" title="Seminar paper (PDF)">paper</a> or scroll through the
<a href="https://rohieb.name/docs/skm-ma-chatty-things-slides.pdf" title="Presentation slides (PDF)">presentation slides</a> <img src="https://rohieb.name/smileys/smile4.png" alt=";-)" /> The paper is licensed as <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/" title="Creative Commons: Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported license">CC BY-ND 3.0</a>
(of course, you shouldn’t use it for <em>your own</em> paper :P), the presentation
slides are <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/" title="Creative Commons: Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, and if you want to re-use it, have a look at
the <a href="http://git.rohieb.name/skm-ma-ws1314.git" title="Git repository skm-ma-ws1314">L<sup>A</sup>T<sub>E</sub>X code</a>.</p>
<p>Apart from the matter handled in the paper, I also acquired some additional
skills:</p>
<ul>
<li>Learn to motivate myself. The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_method" title="Wikipedia: Pomodoro method">Pomodoro technique</a>, in conjunction
with chocolatey sweets for extrinsic gratification, seems to work quite well
for me.</li>
<li>Learn to use <a href="http://www.texample.net/tikz/">Ti<em>k</em>Z</a> to draw figures in
L<sup>A</sup>T<sub>E</sub>X. I already wanted to use it for a while, but it
seemed complex and have a steep learning curve. It turns out that the
Ti<em>k</em>Z/PGF manual is very illustrative, and has an exhaustive index for
easy skimming.</li>
<li>Learn to deliver a good(?) talk. I recently discovered <a href="http://speaking.io">speaking.io</a> by Zach
Holman, and apparently the tips he gives there seem to work and I felt much
more secure than on previous talks. Also: a lot of practice. And test
sessions. And I ditched his advice on slide design, I like my slides
with latex-beamer :P</li>
</ul>