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   1 [[!meta title="XMPP and the Internet of Things (Seminar wrap-up)"]]
   2 [[!meta author="rohieb"]]
   3 [[!meta license="CC-BY-SA 3.0"]]
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   6 As I’m currently working to get a master’s degree in university, I had to write
   7 a seminar paper. I got lucky and the topic “Chatty Things – Making the Internet
   8 of Things Readily Usable with XMPP” sounded very interesting to me :-) As the
   9 title suggests, the paper describes how the [XMPP][] protocol can be employed to
  10 facilitate user access to smart devices in the [Internet of Things][IoT], and
  11 some thoughts on preventing information overflow on the user. If this sounds
  12 interesting to you as well, you should read my [paper][] or scroll through the
  13 [presentation slides][pres] ;-) The paper is licensed as [CC BY-ND 3.0][ccbynd]
  14 (of course, you shouldn’t use it for *your own* paper :P), the presentation
  15 slides are [CC BY-SA 3.0][ccbysa], and if you want to re-use it, have a look at
  16 the [L<sup>A</sup>T<sub>E</sub>X code][code].
  17
  18 [XMPP]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMPP "Wikipedia: XMPP"
  19 [IoT]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_of_Things "Wikipedia: Internet of Things"
  20 [ccbynd]: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/ "Creative Commons: Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported license"
  21 [ccbysa]: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ "Creative Commons: Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license"
  22 [code]: http://git.rohieb.name/skm-ma-ws1314.git "Git repository skm-ma-ws1314"
  23 [paper]: /docs/skm-ma-chatty-things-paper.pdf "Seminar paper (PDF)"
  24 [pres]: /docs/skm-ma-chatty-things-slides.pdf "Presentation slides (PDF)"
  25
  26 Apart from the matter handled in the paper, I also acquired some additional
  27 skills:
  28
  29 * Learn to motivate myself. The [Pomodoro technique][pomodoro], in conjunction
  30   with chocolatey sweets for extrinsic gratification, seems to work quite well
  31   for me.
  32 * Learn to use [Ti<em>k</em>Z][tikz] to draw figures in
  33   L<sup>A</sup>T<sub>E</sub>X. I already wanted to use it for a while, but it
  34   seemed complex and have a steep learning curve. It turns out that the
  35   Ti<em>k</em>Z/PGF manual is very illustrative, and has an exhaustive index for
  36   easy skimming.
  37 * Learn to deliver a good(?) talk. I recently discovered [speaking.io][] by Zach
  38   Holman, and apparently the tips he gives there seem to work and I felt much
  39   more secure than on previous talks. Also: a lot of practice. And test
  40   sessions. And I ditched his advice on slide design, I like my slides
  41   with latex-beamer :P
  42
  43 [pomodoro]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_method "Wikipedia: Pomodoro method"
  44 [tikz]: http://www.texample.net/tikz/
  45 [speaking.io]: http://speaking.io
  46
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