Why Android will start the mobile Tornado

It has been a week since the Android software development stack for mobile devices has been released. For me as the founder of the db4o object database this has been one of the most exciting events in the lifetime of our product and our company. Android will converge the fragmented mobile development platforms and it will make it possible to develop mobile location-based applications for a worldwide user base. This is the start of the mobile tornado. Here is why. Content Landscape for a Tornado Location-Based Services Money and Advertising Resources Open Source Strong Ecosystem Applications Technology Database support My first Android application Android, let's be friends! Mobile Killer Applications Ride Sharing Meet Anywhere Think Global! Just for phones? Web 3.0 Landscape for a Tornado Looking from a global perspective, the landscape of mobile operating systems is highly fragmented. The key players are phone manufacturers and carriers, all with own proprietary technol ... Read the rest of entry »

Speech-Driven Development

Enjoy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyLqUf4cdwc

Programming Perl from Notepad doesn't seem to work yet.

Tight integration with Eclipse could be supercool though, if speech recognition could be smart about what makes sense in a certain context. Imagine speaking phrases like:

• "Generate constructor using fields name firstname"
• "New class BlockingQueueStoppedException extends RuntimeException"
• "For all classes for all fields startswith eye underscore replace eye underscore with underscore"