As Halloween is approaching and the aftternoons grow rainy, it’s time for some tinkering. So, why not try to get the pumpkins a bit more interesting than cut-out veggies?
Getting some tinkerers together was no problem, so we got three families with kids, 4 pumpkins, one LEGO Mindstorms set and 2 Arduinos to start with. I [...]

This is a long article to follow up my talk at SSWC, so I will start with a summary for the lazy reader
Summary
With connected devices, JavaScript enabled web sites and the extensibility of the XMPP protocol, we are at the beginning of a new kind of applications that are operating in the [...]

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on Tuesday, 23 kids and two teachers from Österportskolan in Malmö, Sweden, went to Malmö Högskolan to get first hand experience with advanced multitouch technology research, see real laser cutters in action, look at 3D printers and break apart old electronics from the school.

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It was an amazing experience to see the kids play [...]

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we decided to join Earth Hour and try to get all people at Jayway, Testway, Realway, Dotway and Leadway to save as much energy as they can on Saturday, 20.30 – 21.30. If you read this, please join in and register yourself or your organization! It won’t save the planet but it will set [...]

Hi there,
Øredev was great success, especially all the people and the organization – a big Thank You to Michael and Emily for making this possible, you rock!
Now, it was really awesome to exchange Android games with Mike Jennings fro the Android team, and get him excited over the recent Android port to the Neo FreeRunner! [...]

Since the release of the Android SDK 1.0, people (including me) have been complaining about the lack of connectivity for the very convenient Smack API to talk to Googles GTalk servers following http://davanum.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/android-just-use-smack-api-for-xmpp/, see here.
However, yesterday @Øredev, I met Mike Jennings from the Android team and together we looked into this problem over a beer [...]

Having been at this years JavaOne, the event was impressive as always, but left me with a feeling of being mostly a marketing display for Sun and its partners, not for Java as a whole. I even had the feeling that within Java standard and enterprise computing, things are moving at the pace of evolution, [...]