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The Nokia N810
As reported in previous installments of this column, the Maemo unavailable team picked me for a developer discount on the new Nokia N810 internet tablet (thanks again, folks!). I also own a 770 but skipped the N800, so this has been a huge jump for me. The good The N810 hardware is pretty good. It f…
Tempus Fugit
2007 was a very busy year for me. There has been great progress in the projects I care about, e.g. OpenEmbedded, OpenMoko, OpenEZX (source archive), Enlightenment, Maemo unavailable, Ångström (alternative: project repositories), and some more. In 2007 I travelled more than in all the previous years …
First encounter with Vala
I just rewrote the openmoko-terminal2 application (a lightweight terminal for the OpenMoko environment using Vte) in Vala. Please compare with the source of the C-based incarnation here. In my opinion, Vala is nothing more and nothing less than the future of application coding for the GNOME platform…
Usability through Bling
Let me point you to two publications I found interesting: Interaction Designer Peter Sikking shows the necessity of a holistic approach in order to create stellar UIs. Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri compares UI toolkits for “fancy embeded interfaces”.
Framebuffer vs. X11
Putting some new fuel to the neverending fire — whether the (undebatable) performance drawback of using a full-blown window system like X11 outweighs the benefits in flexibility; Just recently I built the Expedite benchmark utility (from the Enlightenment project) for my Neo1973 (266MHz armv4, VGA d…
Java for OpenMoko moves forward
FSFE fellow Robert Schuster informed me about his progress bringing Java to OpenMoko unavailable and presents an interesting free software view of OpenMoko unavailable.
Collaboration Launch on PhoneServer and DeviceDaemon
With a subtle delay of something like 11 months, I managed to visit the friendly guys from Kernel Concepts in Siegen last week. The most important subjects were how to move forward with regards to a phone server and device daemon collaboration. Here is a short summary what these two things are, why …
Maemo & OpenMoko
I’ve been accepted to the N810 Internet Tablet developer device program — thanks Nokia! I’m going to use this opportunity to work on sharing more technology between the Maemo and the OpenMoko platforms.
OpenMoko Media Player and Web Browser
On the last day I was in the OpenMoko Office, MokoNinja visited me and we recorded videos where I present the state of the OpenMoko Media Player and the Web Browser.
Almost back in Germany
::: {.img-shadow} {width=“200”} ::: 你好! My stay in Taipei is almost over and I want to update you all on some news around my work here in the OpenMoko, Inc. office. During the past couple of months, I have dedicated lots of my resources to improving the current incarnation of the software stack for …