Working on an Android tablet

18 March 2013 in Berlin, Germany. 8 minute read.

As mentioned in my post Hacker-nomad’s toolkit, 2012 edition, the lease period of my lovely — Linux-driven — 11” MacBook Air expired this month, and I had to consider what kind of gear to go with next.

Building a smarter workplace

08 March 2013 in Berlin, Germany. 3 minute read.

As part of the SmarcoS project, we have been investigating how to make workplaces smarter through sensors and context awareness. Here is a video showing what we’ve built:

Travel: all you need is a good backpack

07 March 2013 in Helsinki, Finland. 2 minute read.

In the last year, I’ve spent a lot of time on the road, mainly through client work and the European projects I’ve been involved with. To be more exact, I’ve spent more than half of my time traveling. This year should definitely be more light on conferences!

Thinking about the flow-based programming user interface

08 February 2013 in Berlin, Germany. 7 minute read.

As readers of this blog already know, I’ve been working on the NoFlo flow-based programming environment for JavaScript. Lately the development effort has received a large boost from both the EU-funded SmarcoS Project and client work, and so the question of a flow design UI has become even more urgent.

Create.js in 2013

06 January 2013 in Helsinki, Finland. 4 minute read.

It is now 2013, and the IKS project, started back in 2009 to improve content management systems through semantic technologies, has ended. Alongside Apache Stanbol and VIE.js, the Create.js inline editing toolkit was one of the major outcomes of this European Union funded effort.

Hacker-Nomad's toolkit, the 2012 edition

21 December 2012 in Berlin, Germany. 7 minute read.

Back in last July – when choosing photos to use in the epic The Dreams of the MeeGo Diaspora post – I noticed that it is quite fascinating to look at the various tablets and mobile phones we’ve been using over the years. Back then they all were so new, shiny, and exciting, and yet hardware moves so fast that...

Interview: Create.js and VIE in CMSs

30 November 2012 in Berlin, Germany. 3 minute read.

Create.js and VIE were recently added to the core of Drupal 8. Just like with TYPO3 Neos, I’ll write a longer post on how things went later.

Jolla's Sailfish OS

21 November 2012 in Helsinki, Finland. 14 minute read.

This week has been a busy one for a hacker-nomad. Weekend in Paris for the JS.everywhere conference, then on Monday a talk at the Hamburg JavaScript meetup. And now I’m in Helsinki. Slush, the conference I’m attending, is the biggest start-up event in Nordic countries. But even at that, it seems the Jolla announcements of today have been able to...

Distributing NoFlo components via NPM

09 November 2012 in Berlin, Germany. 1 minute read.

NoFlo is an implementation of the Flow-Based Programming model for Node.js. Today I’ve released version 0.2.0 which provides a handy new feature: the ability to share components via NPM.

Inline editing: you have to do it right

05 November 2012 in Berlin, Germany. 2 minute read.

In a curious turn of events, the Plone team is considering to remove their inline editing feature around the same time when similar features are being added to popular CMSs like TYPO3 and Drupal.