UISprech – My German Podcast for iOS Developers
September 26, 2013 No CommentsLast night, I've published the first three episodes of UISprech - the German podcast about iOS development. Right before those, I recorded a "null episode" discussing the idea and concept behind this side-project. Being a regular speaker at ...
Selling Dead Trees
March 5, 2012 4 CommentsMy book shelves flow over and I've decided to throw out some of my technical literature. Find below a set of classics, oddities and brand new best sellers. I put those on the German Amazon market as ...
Speaking Mobile
February 28, 2012 No CommentsAfter launching my startup BeamApp, I've been rather quiet over the last months. I paused on blogging, noticeably backed off from twitter and talked less at conferences. In 2012, this is going to change and I am ...
Breaking New Ground
August 17, 2011 13 CommentsAfter nearly three years with itemis I decided to found my own startup and to create a product in the mobile area. I like to think back of the awesome time with the Xtext team and later ...
New Website: Xtext 2.0 Indigo, CSS3 + HTML5
July 13, 2011 6 CommentsThere's been a major redesign of the Xtext website. Not only, it leverages the modern Eclipse Indigo look in different variations. Similar to Xtext itself, it comes with some cool new features whereas others had been polished ...
Publications in current issues of PAGE magazine and mobile business
April 29, 2011 1 CommentThe German print magazines PAGE 5.11 and mobile business 03.11 both share some of my ideas about mobile development in general, web vs. native, and how designers and developers can work hand in hand to produce a ...
Nudity on the Web
April 8, 2011 No CommentsToday, I am switching off the styling of my blog to celebrate the Naked CSS Day 2011. Similar to last year, I am participating in this annual event to promote web standards and proper, semantic markup. [caption id="attachment_1651" align="aligncenter" ...
Live Recording: Cross-Platform Mobile Development for iPhone, Android & Co. at MobileTech Conference
March 26, 2011 2 CommentsNext week, the German MobileTech Conference 2011 (Spring Edition) will take place in Munich and features three fully-packed days of sessions and workshops around mobile development and marketing. Being still in California, I won't speak this year ...
Retrospection: Cross-Platform Mobile Development at EclipseCon
March 24, 2011 8 CommentsYesterday, Peter and I talked about "Cross-Platform Mobile Development with Eclipse" at EclipseCon in Santa Clara. After some conceptual slides telling about the difficulties one face when targeting different platforms (in our case iPhone, Android, Windows Phone ...
“What is EclipseCon?”
March 18, 2011 2 CommentsIn a few hours from now, I will be on my flight towards this year's EclipseCon in Santa Clara. Similar to my blitz talk last year, I am going to talk about mobile development based on domain-specific ...
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