How Dropbox simplifies life
July 8, 2009 5 CommentsRecently, I had to prepare a conference talk together with a colleague while both of us were working at different locations across the country. Via chats and phone calls we elaborated the topics, shared ideas and presented ...
iWannaSleep
June 9, 2009 1 CommentI love to listen to radio plays when going to bed and often I fall asleep only a few minutes after starting an episode. This works great for me but who switches off my Computer? A few ...
Mac SVN Server
May 24, 2009 4 CommentsLast Wednesday Peter, Jan and me discussed the idea to blog about nifty little tools that make up our daily life with our Macs. With this post I will start to do so and want to present ...
Xtext Workshop
April 14, 2009 No CommentsSebastian and me had the opportunity to give some exciting Xtext Workshops during the last two weeks. Starting with internal trainings at different offices of itemis we continued our tour to our customers. In groups from 4 ...
Finanzkrise anschaulich erklärt
March 4, 2009 2 CommentsJonathan Jarvis zeigt als Teil seiner Abschlussarbeit in einem Animationsfilm, wie es zur anhaltenen Finanzkrise kam (gelesen bei baekdal). Mich fasziniert neben der ikonisierten Bildsprache vor allem die plastische Darstellung des im Studium so häufig erwähnten Leverage-Effekts. Inhaltlich etwas ...
Twitter und Facebook für Politik und Produkte
January 19, 2009 1 CommentLängst gewinnen Sportvereine neue Mitglieder über ihre Präsenz im Internet. Der Einzelhandel versendet E-Mails beim Eintreffen neuer Ware und die Status SMS beim Logistiker ist keine Besonderheit mehr. Die Zeiten ändern sich! Das hat vor einigen Wochen ...
Videos vom World Usability Day 2008 in Hamburg
January 8, 2009 No CommentsDurch einen Gruppeneintrag von Matthias bin ich auf die Videos vom Hamburger World Usability Day aufmerksam geworden. Die Mitschnitte zeigen zwar nur einen Teil der gehaltenen Vorträge, vermitteln aber einen Eindruck, worum des den norddeutschen Usability Professionals ...
Blog to your mom via email
November 24, 2008 4 CommentsMany surfers on the web are not familiar with RSS feeds nor do they own an aggregator to collect news automatically. Those "old-fashioned internet citizens" gather information by opening websites one after the other and scanning ...
Zuginfo für das iPhone
October 24, 2008 5 CommentsEine meiner Lieblingsanwendungen aus dem Apple App Store ist Zuginfo von ifoi ware. Die Anwendung ist in der Lage, komfortabel Verbindungsanfragen an die deutsche Bahn zu stellen. Toll an der Kombination ist, dass die Bahn nicht nur Zugverbindungen ...
Migrate contacts from Sony Ericsson K750i to the iPhone
October 21, 2008 3 CommentsToday, I wanted to migrate contacts from my good ol' mobile to my new iPhone 3G. Since apple's telephony product neither supports bluetooth nor allows importing via SIM card I decided to walk the old fashioned way: Data via ...
Heiko Behrens
is a programmer, author, and public speaker with more than a decade of commercial software development, technical writing, and on-stage presentation experience. As an active committer at Eclipse and as an involved participant in numerous other open source projects, he has in-depth experience in a broad range of technologies. His startup BeamApp, still in stealth mode, is focussed on mobile application development, both native cross-platform and web-based.
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