Tired of Typing? Speak to Your Computer!
For some reason, humans have always dreamt of using natural language to communicate with computers. Quite a number of movies have been made that revolve around this theme, 2001: A Space Odyssey and I, Robot (named after the great collection of SF stories by Isaac Asimov) just being two of them.
Read more
Save a Tree, Put EclipseCon 2011 in Your Pocket
After the huge success of the mobile apps for Eclipse Summit Europe, we decided to provide mobile apps for EclipseCon 2011, too. So instead of using a printed copy of the conference program, you can browse the schedule on your smart phone - wherever you are! Read more
How to Use the Gyroscope of Your iPhone in a Mobile Web App
This week's release of iOS 4.2 for iPad and iPhone comes with some nice little features most people will not immediately become aware of as they're neither directly visible in the iOS UI nor are they mentioned in Apple's official release notes. You have to dig a little deeper to find them. One of them is a JavaScript API for the iPhone's gyroscope. Read on to see it in action and learn how to use it. Read more
Eclipse DemoCamp Hamburg November 2010
Last Friday was a happy day for Java developers in Hamburg: not only did Apple and Oracle announce their plan to continue development of Java on the Mac OSX platform, but we also had the pleasure to host this fall's instance of Eclipse DemoCamp Hamburg in a bookstore!
Read more
[Updated] Use your iPhone, Android, or BlackBerry to build Your Eclipse Summit Europe 2010
As I'm writing this, Eclipse Summit Europe 2010 is merely hours away and everyone is getting excited to get there and meet Eclipse family.
I think the program committee have done a great job at putting together an exciting conference program with lots of technical sessions, interactive tutorials and inspiring keynotes.
As a special treat for smart phone users, we're offering a conference schedule app for iPhone, Android and all other smart phones that come with a browser. Read more
Apple’s Updated Developer License – This Changes Everything. Again.
A few days ago, Apple made some small, but very important changes to the iOS Developer Program Agreement - a document which you must agree to before you can download the iOS SDK and start developing software for the iOS platform. These changes will drastically change the way we will build software for the iPhone, iPad and iPod and any other device that runs iOS.
Why Your Next App Should be Open Sourced
I've been doing all sorts of software development over the past few years, from closed-source in-house software for companies to closed-source product development to open-source frameworks and tools development to close-source app development.
Looking back on my experience with the various drawbacks and benefits of each of those development modes, I hereby recommend your next app be open sourced.
Read more
Don’t attend the Eclipse DemoCamp in Hamburg this Friday…
... if you're not interested in meeting local (and non-local) Eclipse enthusiasts and committers, learning something about Eclipse, Git, SWT, Qt, e4 and the iPhone, watching some nice Pixar short films in a cosy cinema, and frosty beverages.
Read more
OSGi & Servlets: Flexibility by Simplicity
Strangely enough, simple things tend to be more flexible than complex things. I bet you too have seen people go to great lengths to ensure a certain solution provides utmost flexibility. Read more
OSGi & Servlets: Deploying on Amazon EC2
Last week, I showed you how to create a very simple OSGi-based servlet and run it locally on Jetty. Today, I will show you how to deploy this servlet to an Amazon EC2 instance.
