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For the last couple of months I have been working on a secret project which involved
using liqbase to create an interactive controller on the new Nokia N900 which was used
at last weeks onedotzero adventures in motion festival.
This involved getting to know the device and its capabilities and making sure we
were able to give the best experience possible.
Its been quite a ride and together with the guys at Nokia, Weiden & Kennedy
and Karsten Schmidt from Postspectacular we pulled off an impressive digital feat!
The Identity is an incredible ultra widescreen 3d message with flowing ribbons of text taken from tweets and messages and can be manipulated and controlled by the N900 device. It was a sight to behold everyone who played with it did so with a massive smile on their faces!
The onedotzero festival is a collaborative coming together of creatives, digital
artists, executives and technical folks and hope the connections everybody made
will continue far into the future.
This installation took place at the BFI on Londons Southbank and will continue now
on its tour around the world, hopefully evolving and growing in strength.
The Nokia device performed flawlessly, allowing the public to smoothly control Karstens
vision and everyone left everyone with a smile on their faces!
Amongst the excitement and buzz there was a more humble symbolic achievement, this
onedotzero application the first liqbase application to reach 1.0 status.
Those following my work will realise how proud I am of this moment :)
There were exciting new applications discovered and different inventive ways of
working which the Nokia N900 device will allow us to achieve.
I came away excited about the future and hope the connections we made will expand
and prove fruitful in the future.
Whilst at the festival, Nokia also unveiled a new initiative called the Nokia Push
N900.
A bunch of hardware hackers from tinker.it
were given a brief of making inventive applications using the Nokia N900 device
and the team did not disappoint coming up with some cool hacks - from a speak and
spell which sent text messages, to a view master 3d and even an old school radio
and a rolodex linked to the local contacts on the device - they looked like they
had a great time creating these examples, but that is only the start - they want
YOUR ideas for inventive hacks and if chosen, the best will be displayed in flagship
Nokia stores around the world, so hardware hackers - get involved and make a proposal!
Video overview here:
http://maemo.nokia.com/videos/
Photos from the amazing 3d identity software Karsten created:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/toxi/sets/72157620899002878/
onedotzero info, find out whether it will be coming to a city near you
http://www.onedotzero.com/home.php
liqbase information:
http://liqbase.net
For the last couple of months I have been working on a secret project which involved
using liqbase to create an interactive controller on the new Nokia N900 which was used
at last weeks onedotzero adventures in motion festival.
This involved getting to know the device and its capabilities and making sure we
were able to give the best experience possible.
Its been quite a ride and together with the guys at Nokia, Weiden & Kennedy
and Karsten Schmidt from Postspectacular we pulled off an impressive digital feat!
The Identity is an incredible ultra widescreen 3d message with flowing ribbons of text taken from tweets and messages and can be manipulated and controlled by the N900 device. It was a sight to behold everyone who played with it did so with a massive smile on their faces!
The onedotzero festival is a collaborative coming together of creatives, digital
artists, executives and technical folks and hope the connections everybody made
will continue far into the future.
This installation took place at the BFI on Londons Southbank and will continue now
on its tour around the world, hopefully evolving and growing in strength.
The Nokia device performed flawlessly, allowing the public to smoothly control Karstens
vision and everyone left everyone with a smile on their faces!
Amongst the excitement and buzz there was a more humble symbolic achievement, this
onedotzero application the first liqbase application to reach 1.0 status.
Those following my work will realise how proud I am of this moment :)
There were exciting new applications discovered and different inventive ways of
working which the Nokia N900 device will allow us to achieve.
I came away excited about the future and hope the connections we made will expand
and prove fruitful in the future.
Whilst at the festival, Nokia also unveiled a new initiative called the Nokia Push
N900.
A bunch of hardware hackers from tinker.it
were given a brief of making inventive applications using the Nokia N900 device
and the team did not disappoint coming up with some cool hacks - from a speak and
spell which sent text messages, to a view master 3d and even an old school radio
and a rolodex linked to the local contacts on the device - they looked like they
had a great time creating these examples, but that is only the start - they want
YOUR ideas for inventive hacks and if chosen, the best will be displayed in flagship
Nokia stores around the world, so hardware hackers - get involved and make a proposal!
Video overview here:
http://maemo.nokia.com/videos/
Photos from the amazing 3d identity software Karsten created:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/toxi/sets/72157620899002878/
onedotzero info, find out whether it will be coming to a city near you
http://www.onedotzero.com/home.php
liqbase information:
http://liqbase.net
since starting liqbase one of the most important aspects for me is how my Nokia device feels when using it.I am pleased to say it feels good!the entire liqbase playground is shaping up even better than I could imagine and everything I am attempting to achieve is slotting into place.I have now restored the core mechanics into the system and everything flows as before, but now with the framework operating at peak efficiency I can take a step backwards and admire the bigger picture:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt7qB37sLLoI can now draw again and I have an awesome calendar and image viewer. theres also an extremely friendly tagcloud system which is simply a joy to use. the zooming works exactly like I thought it would, obviously work will continue and I will have all original functionality and more in the release.A tremendous search capability has emerged with a natural organic layout bringing different components together which will literally blow your mind!I still have lots to do, but I am getting help now from numerous quarters.zach has just started his google summer of code residency and has begun creating his network monitor skeleton and is helping document the framework.kot is constantly reminding me about linux in general and how stupid I am for putting fixed paths in the app :pkeesj has started to publicly track the .git and is looking at the packaging and how to actually bring liqbase into a more standard debian layout.the encouragement I receive from all quarters lets me know I am doing the right thing :)its gaining stability and strength now, I can see more of what I would like to do with it. :)
since starting liqbase one of the most important aspects for me is how my Nokia device feels when using it.I am pleased to say it feels good!the entire liqbase playground is shaping up even better than I could imagine and everything I am attempting to achieve is slotting into place.I have now restored the core mechanics into the system and everything flows as before, but now with the framework operating at peak efficiency I can take a step backwards and admire the bigger picture:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt7qB37sLLoI can now draw again and I have an awesome calendar and image viewer. theres also an extremely friendly tagcloud system which is simply a joy to use. the zooming works exactly like I thought it would, obviously work will continue and I will have all original functionality and more in the release.A tremendous search capability has emerged with a natural organic layout bringing different components together which will literally blow your mind!I still have lots to do, but I am getting help now from numerous quarters.zach has just started his google summer of code residency and has begun creating his network monitor skeleton and is helping document the framework.kot is constantly reminding me about linux in general and how stupid I am for putting fixed paths in the app :pkeesj has started to publicly track the .git and is looking at the packaging and how to actually bring liqbase into a more standard debian layout.the encouragement I receive from all quarters lets me know I am doing the right thing :)its gaining stability and strength now, I can see more of what I would like to do with it. :)
liqbase is my vision for a usable touchscreen interface.over the last 9 months it has started to take shape into a really comfortable home for all my (and yours too soon!) applications.During the last couple of months I've had my head down coding towards curing the hacks and making liqbase into a polished nice framework for all the applications I want to write for my nokia tablet.I have split the code into 3 main pieces and created a library of the core graphics elements and a host applciation containing the ui manager.The third part is dynamically installable compiled application widgets and dialogs.I can create and use entirely new items quickly and easily and try out ideas without having to even think about the core library or ui application.A new video has been placed on youtube showing my progress.Its by no means finished but its taking shape nicely.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMXp0Dg_UaYI have started to bring in the current applications and will be creating new ones (i need that camera..) and we will have a playground that will make us all smile soon enough :)
liqbase is my vision for a usable touchscreen interface.over the last 9 months it has started to take shape into a really comfortable home for all my (and yours too soon!) applications.During the last couple of months I've had my head down coding towards curing the hacks and making liqbase into a polished nice framework for all the applications I want to write for my nokia tablet.I have split the code into 3 main pieces and created a library of the core graphics elements and a host applciation containing the ui manager.The third part is dynamically installable compiled application widgets and dialogs.I can create and use entirely new items quickly and easily and try out ideas without having to even think about the core library or ui application.A new video has been placed on youtube showing my progress.Its by no means finished but its taking shape nicely.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMXp0Dg_UaYI have started to bring in the current applications and will be creating new ones (i need that camera..) and we will have a playground that will make us all smile soon enough :)
it was exactly 12 months to the day since my nokia internet tablet arrived.
I've started to bring together the ideas and principles I've thought about for many years into a cohesive and compelling touch based framework.
I'm coding in C again! Its so different to the visual basic I've spent the last few years using, but its kept my mind sharp by having to think in extremely optimized units.
Best of all this year I've made loads of new friends and been to new places and I've learnt about all the cool things we can do in linux and talked about everything we want to do in the future.
What a year its been!
I'm really looking forward to the Christmas break to get some time to spend on liqbase, theres a lot to do but the classes are gelling together nicely.
Merry Christmas everybody, hope you are safe.
it was exactly 12 months to the day since my nokia internet tablet arrived.
I've started to bring together the ideas and principles I've thought about for many years into a cohesive and compelling touch based framework.
I'm coding in C again! Its so different to the visual basic I've spent the last few years using, but its kept my mind sharp by having to think in extremely optimized units.
Best of all this year I've made loads of new friends and been to new places and I've learnt about all the cool things we can do in linux and talked about everything we want to do in the future.
What a year its been!
I'm really looking forward to the Christmas break to get some time to spend on liqbase, theres a lot to do but the classes are gelling together nicely.
Merry Christmas everybody, hope you are safe.
Should I be worried about software patents?I have thought about touch screen user interaction for a long time now, and have written numerous visualizations and interactive controls over the years.I have a kickass collection of functions and algorithms for all areas of the system but I have never specialized in one specific place.This year I have started to open my source and release these little ideas and have sent coded up implementations into the wild.Some of the code is novel, some of it is mundane, other pieces are just weird but give a pretty effect :)I've found a nice home within the nokia maemo linux community and my software has been well received amongst its members and beyond.I bet somewhere I've stepped on somebodies toes and have their patented algorithm in my code.In reading up about them this evening I find out that the chances are, if you have done anything more than hello world you will have too!How would I find out what patents I have in my code?Should I be checking every single function I write against the central registry?
Should I be worried about software patents?I have thought about touch screen user interaction for a long time now, and have written numerous visualizations and interactive controls over the years.I have a kickass collection of functions and algorithms for all areas of the system but I have never specialized in one specific place.This year I have started to open my source and release these little ideas and have sent coded up implementations into the wild.Some of the code is novel, some of it is mundane, other pieces are just weird but give a pretty effect :)I've found a nice home within the nokia maemo linux community and my software has been well received amongst its members and beyond.I bet somewhere I've stepped on somebodies toes and have their patented algorithm in my code.In reading up about them this evening I find out that the chances are, if you have done anything more than hello world you will have too!How would I find out what patents I have in my code?Should I be checking every single function I write against the central registry?