Project partners Audi, E.ON, the Munich municipal utility company Stadtwerke München and the Technical University of Munich today sounded the starting gun for a fleet trial with electric cars in the Munich model region.
By the middle of next year, 20 Audi A1 e-tron models will successively take to the region’s roads and around [...]
As reported by Bloomberg (and padded by Mashable), GM announced to offer some Facebook integration with OnStar.
Beyond the apparent hype compatibility and use of text-to-speech and speech-to-text technologies in the vehicle, this can possible be the first vector towards traction for Facebook Location.
FUD factor: mild, as this is an obvious integration.
Here’s a little tool I wrote while reviewing a client’s fairly complex project:
Pom Grapher generates a graph from multi-module and parent-child relationships of Maven projects (POMs).
My use-case was to understand the POMs relations in order to understand the build.
It produces a graphic representation of the modules (nodes) and parent project and sub-module relations (edges) using [...]
In an blog entry “Mobile cross platform died with Apple and the iPhone”
Valtech Denmark’s Martin Eiler complains about Apple’s recent move to basically ban cross-platform development tools, the most obvious Adobe’s CS5 Flash cross-development feature, based on the argument that cross-platform development (and thus a common market) will benefit ” developers, clients, technology and world peace”.
I have to say that I do not agree.
or for that matter all mind-mapping applications that I know.
Although it offers a really nice, effective and lightweight way of _structuring_ concepts, my problem right now is that I can not use it because I can not force the concepts in a simplistic tree.
In my head the concepts pop up in different places depending on [...]
As rumored by Financial Times Germany, NOKIA is about to replace Symbian with Mameo (it’s own interpretation of Linux on small devices) on smartphones.
Looking at NOKIA’s current product offerings, this move may make sense. NOKIA currently has no competitive offering in the iPhone/Android space and it’s “Business E-Series” does not stack up well against the [...]
We are considering hosting a Coding Dojo (what is Coding Dojo) in Düsseldorf.
If you are intrested in improving your coding skills and meet fellow developers – please drop me a line.
Once we found a handful of people, I will set-up a wiki/mailing list from which we can work out details.
I am personally interested in Randori Katas [...]
Buy Apple put options
Hack MobileMe
Perform 40 million “remote wipes”
Cash in & ruuuun
Optional: Buy a small country of your choice.
Seriously: The MobileMe iPhone integration has risen the stakes considerably. I just hope that remote wipe is protected by a user-defined password on the device (and not just by the MobileMe account). They can’t be that stupid [...]
