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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 :-) As the
title suggests, the paper describes how the [XMPP][] protocol can be employed to
facilitate user access to smart devices in the [Internet of Things][IoT], and
some thoughts on preventing information overflow on the user. If this sounds
interesting to you as well, you should read my [paper][] or scroll through the
[presentation slides][pres] ;-) The paper is licensed as [CC BY-ND 3.0][ccbynd]
(of course, you shouldn’t use it for *your own* paper :P), the presentation
slides are [CC BY-SA 3.0][ccbysa], and if you want to re-use it, have a look at
the [L<sup>A</sup>T<sub>E</sub>X code][code].

[XMPP]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMPP "Wikipedia: XMPP"
[IoT]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_of_Things "Wikipedia: Internet of Things"
[ccbynd]: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/ "Creative Commons: Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported license"
[ccbysa]: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ "Creative Commons: Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license"
[code]: http://git.rohieb.name/skm-ma-ws1314.git "Git repository skm-ma-ws1314"
[paper]: /docs/skm-ma-chatty-things-paper.pdf "Seminar paper (PDF)"
[pres]: /docs/skm-ma-chatty-things-slides.pdf "Presentation slides (PDF)"

Apart from the matter handled in the paper, I also acquired some additional
skills:

* Learn to motivate myself. The [Pomodoro technique][pomodoro], in conjunction
  with chocolatey sweets for extrinsic gratification, seems to work quite well
  for me.
* Learn to use [Ti<em>k</em>Z][tikz] 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.
* Learn to deliver a good(?) talk. I recently discovered [speaking.io][] 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

[pomodoro]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_method "Wikipedia: Pomodoro method"
[tikz]: http://www.texample.net/tikz/
[speaking.io]: http://speaking.io

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