There is a nice article on Ars discussing Microsoft’s business practices regarding windows and how they appear to be not quite working lately. It used to be that your PC came with windows whereas nowadays you have to select from a around five different versions and Microsoft is rumored to go to an even more [...]
Also tagged apple, beer, google, microsoft, Software in General, ubuntu, windowsBelow is a position paper I submitted to the upcoming Dagstuhl seminar I am attending. It’s not peer reviewed and it is not clear at this point if there will be any proceedings. So, as an experiment, I will just put the full text in a blog post as well as the pdf you can [...]
Also tagged Academic, eclipse, java, linux, smart space, Software Engineering, ubuntuI currently work for the Nokia Research Center in Helsinki, Finland as a member of research staff in the Smart Spaces Lab. Before that I worked for GX creative online development in Nijmegen, The Netherlands; as a researcher at the University of Groningen where I also got my Ph. D; and as Ph. D. student at [...]
Also tagged smart spaceLast month a European funded research project I’m in kicked off: SENSEI. The official project website is still under construction but somebody was kind enough to blog about it at least.
Sensei will be a lot of work and hopefully also very interesting and fun. It’s a so-called integrated project in FP7 which means it [...]
One of my colleagues, Cristiano di Flora with whom I’ve written several articles over the past year, is co-organizing the second workshop on Adaptive and DependAble Mobile Ubiquitous Systems (Adamus) that will be co-hosted with this years WoWMoM symposium in California this summer.
He asked me to do a bit of promotion on my blog, [...]
Update: a slightly updated version of this article has been published on the Javalobby weekly news letter and on the javalobby site itself after Matthew Schmidt invited me to do so.
Update 2: The serverside has linked here as well. Readers coming from there, the version on Javalobby linked above is the latest and also has [...]
It seems infoq picked up some stuff from a comment I left on the serverside about one of my pet topics (Server side Java).
The infoq article also mentions that I work at Nokia. I indeed work for Nokia Research Center and it’s a great place to work. Only they do require me to point [...]
I just found this cool mobile barcoder extension for firefox that displays so-called QR codes that encode the url of the page you are currently looking at. QR codes are like bar codes, only 2-dimensional. For example:
(generated using this site: http://qrcode.kaywa.com/)
It so happens that my Nokia N95 (hey, there’s some benefit in working for a [...]
Together with my two colleagues Christian Prehofer and Cristiano di Flora, I wrote a nice workshop paper for the upcoming Second Workshop on Requirements and Solutions for Pervasive Software Infrastructures (RSPSI), at UBICOMB 2007, Innsbruck, 16-19 Sebtember, 2007.
Towards the Web as a Platform for Ubiquitous Applications in Smart Spaces (pdf).
Abstract:
We introduce our web based [...]
A List Apart: Articles: Conflicting Absolute Positions
nice solution for a difficult layout problem
(tags: css layout positioning)
DOTmed.com - Companies Introduce Medical Applications for New iPhone
(tags: iphone applications)
Welcome to iPhoneAppr
nice examples of web applications for mobile use
(tags: iphone applications web2.0)
What additional program policies apply to AdSense for mobile? Google AdSense Help Center
Interesting, might shakeup mobile web market. [...]
