A luxury that you seldom have in the world of software development is the luxury of starting over. I am not talking about throwing away everything and start from scratch. But just taking what you have, and all the experiences learned. Apply some major refactoring to make what works really shine, and without care of [...]

As a professional Java ME developer I’ve never really come to terms with the MIDlet class and its underlying aesthetics. As a sort of remedy I often use a simple utility-class I wrote some years ago to conceal the principles of the MIDlet class. It concerns the way you write your Java ME-application so I [...]

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. [...]

Nishant wrote a good piece on why Apple continue to outdo it’s rivals, he used a variant of a quote by Canadian hockey player Wayne Gretzky to make his point: A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be. This is true as [...]

I had the opportunity to present the Way Group initiated project OpenCauses.org at TED@PalmSprings this year. It was a fantastic experience and I got a great response on the project. But what is it we are doing with OpenCauses.org? For good or for bad, the market is unprecedented in its power to generate wealth. What [...]

Do you want to structure your Java ME applications better? Aspect Oriented Programming is a cool technology that can modularize your applications and separate the verbose infrastructure code from the application logic. The only catch is that it doesn’t exist for Java ME. Or does it? Introduction Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) is gaining popularity within [...]

Neo is a network-oriented database for semi-structured information. Too complicated, let us try again. Neo handles data in networks – nodes, relationships and properties – instead of tables. This means entirely new solutions for data that is diffi cult to handle in static tables. It could mean we can go agile all the way into [...]