GCDS

On Friday I'll be leaving for Gran Canaria to attend Gran Canaria Desktop Summit. This is only possible because I got financial help from the Gnome Foundation and it's sponsors. Thanks a lot to all of you, especially the Gnome Travel Committee which organized the travel and accomodation subsidy.



I'm really looking forward to meet some great people and of course to play at the FreeFA tournament. Last year was great fun! Hopefully we have a lot of water this year...

I'll arrive Friday night, so I'll miss the first party. If someone else is arriving around 11PM, drop me a line. My flight departs from Munich at 3:50 PM and stops at Madrid. From there the journey continues at 8:35 PM to Gran Canaria.

See you there :)

Android Scripting Environment

With the ASE (Android Scripting Environment) which Google released recently, developers get the possibility to run scripts on Android.



At the moment ASE supports Python, Lua and BeanShell, there are plans to support Ruby and JavaScript in the future as well!

Why use scripts instead of programs? The explanation can be found on their site:

You may ask, why write scripts instead of real Android applications? Admittedly, Android's development environment makes life pretty easy, but you're tied to a computer to do your work. ASE lets you develop on the device itself using high-level scripting languages to try out your idea now, in the situation where you need it, quickly.

On the website where you can download the ASE you'll find some example scripts as well: One example script mutes the ringer of your Android phone when the phone is face down.

Opera's announcement to reinvent the web...

Today Opera announced Opera Unite, a webserver in the browser. Opera Unite will come with Opera 10, and reinvent the web, at least Opera says so. For some days there has been a site announcing the reinvention, now it's out!

Definitely some good and fresh ideas, but how well it will be adopted and how it will change the web is open, just like Google Wave is told to replace email!

It would be great to have an open protocol just like Wave, so other users (firefox, epiphany, chrome and so on) can use opera unite with some add-ons or something. Let's hope they don't build a opera only thing...

Sounds a lot like a revolution is going on here and there, lets see what comes out! At least its a peaceful revolution...

Watch HOME on YouTube

Maybe some of you already know this film, I discovered it today.

First watch the press conference, it a nice idea to spread the film with all possible ways to reach as much people as possible! Thats why the film is on YouTube, take some time and watch it, its full of wonderful images!

Press Conference Inline: