Three reasons why I think the HP TouchPad will rock the tablet market
Yesterday, HP introduced the Touchpad, an iPad-like tablet device that is programmed with web technologies. While this certainly isn’t the first attempt of a vendor to compete with Apple on the tablet...
View ArticleAppropriate Use of MapKit
I just had an app rejected because of violation of the Google Maps terms of service. While it certainly is kind of funny Apple rejects an app because you’re violating Google’s terms of service, I was...
View ArticleSave a Tree, Put EclipseCon 2011 in Your Pocket
After the huge success of the mobile apps for Eclipse Summit Europe, we decided to provide mobile apps for EclipseCon 2011, too. So instead of using a printed copy of the conference program, you can...
View ArticleUsing NSPredicate to Filter Data
Filtering data is one of the essential tasks in computing. With all the data available today, we need to apply certain limits and constraints to actually make it usable. What use is it to be able to...
View ArticleCode Generation 2011 – Don’t miss out!
Code Generation 2011 is just around the corner and if you haven’t booked yet, you should hurry up – a few places are still available! Quite a number of my colleagues at itemis have been busy preparing...
View ArticleTired of Typing? Speak to Your Computer!
For some reason, humans have always dreamt of using natural language to communicate with computers. Quite a number of movies have been made that revolve around this theme, 2001: A Space Odyssey and I,...
View ArticleThe Accounts and Twitter Framework on iOS 5
Adding Twitter support is something that makes quite a lot of sense for a number of applications. If you’re in a news reader application you might want to let your followers know about an interesting...
View ArticleUsing CocoaPods to manage your dependencies
One of the few things that I find really annoying about developing apps for the iOS platform is how cumbersome it is to include third party libraries in your projects. Depending on the complexity of...
View ArticleWriting Xtext Scope Providers with Xtend
Scope is an important concept in the design of programming languages. In Xtext, scoping is used to drive two major parts of your DSL: linking and content assist. While Xtext applies the 80/20 rule very...
View ArticleDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Humans have always been fascinated by the idea of talking with machines. Almost no main stream science fiction movie exists that does not pick up the idea of audio-visual communication with computers,...
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