Jochen Krause

On April 23rd, the Firefox OS developer preview phones became available in Europe – and were sold out in a few hours. The demand was so overwhelming that the supplier geeksphone had to shut down their online shop completely for a week. Now they are back online and have been busy delivering the phones – [...]

Creating and sharing presentations using most of the tools available today is a pain. I think this is mainly due to the fact that they mix content and design in one document and often do a poor job in keeping these concerns apart when the user is editing. When I used Keynote for the first [...]

RAP is approaching its second major release in its 6 year history, and major releases should be accompanied by major new functionality – at least this is our take on versioning. With RAP 2.0 we are changing the project name from Rich Ajax Platform to Remote Application Platform (RAP as a short name remains the [...]

Last week we published a tool for giving developers hints on which mobile platforms might best suite their requirements with respect to platforms, skill and more parameters. Mobile Select-O-Matic does also provide interesting insights on the requirements that developers impose on mobile platforms / frameworks. The results are not representative for the entire developer community [...]

Over the past year we have been actively researching the landscape of mobile development solutions for business. There is a vast amount of different approaches with different strength and weaknesses. To find “the right” solution you need to consider a rather complex decision tree. As developers hate repeating themselves we decided to make my findings [...]

Current and future viability of Eclipse No, this is not another farewell. We have had too many of them over the last few years. Following the recent discussion [1][2][3] about Eclipse Juno one can get the impression that Eclipse is going to be “demolished” anytime soon to make space for a new hyperspace bypass. Reality [...]

Last month I was researching options for writing multi-platform mobile apps in Java. Beside our own framework Tabris the Google Web Toolkit is an obvious option. When I started to dig a little deeper I stumbled upon Google’s announcement at Google IO 2012 to go from “gatekeeper to peer” regarding the development of GWT. It [...]

Today, there is one major ingredient for successful technology marketing: Use the word “awesome” as often as you can. You can even do better by using “totally awesome”. Or “insanely awesome” if you know what you are doing – ehm typing. The widespread use of awesome has been brought to mastership by the JavaScript community. [...]

Github has announced a Series A round of venture funding today. They are taking 100 million USD from Andreessen Horowitz – and at least the first part of the name should be familiar to software developers. The announcement is a surprise as Github has always refrained from taking venture money. No surprise is their goal [...]