Capping IT Off
Monthly Archives: February 2008
Pocket Earth
In an earlier post I wrote about context aware services. Being able to put the world in your pocket is an important prerequisite for enabling the personalized context aware services that I fantasized about in that article. And exactly that has become reality: your pocket now fits the world, because the world now fits inside a cell phone. The world fits inside a Nokia N95 Our planet’s entire surface (at least the inhabitable parts) is …
I thought I’ve seen it all…
There are these moments in your life when you are in awe of what technology allows us to do. I remember a couple of years ago that a user on a forum was asking how to do some server side stuff in his web browser but without reloading the browser. We “experts” were all rolling our eyes and thinking, gosh yet another newbie that does not understand how web development works. You can imagine when …
A dilemma for Personal Data protection in the digital age
Security breaches involving personal data and the inadequacy of the controls protecting this data in many organisations was brought to the top of the news agenda in late 2007, making it something of a watershed year regarding the security of electronically stored personal information at companies. Many businesses are now in the process of doing the work needed to answer the question: “are we next?” – IT security controls are being examined! There has been …
c,mm,n: Cars-as-a-Service
I received recently an invitation to attend the first c,mm,n garage in Delft (the Netherlands). C,mm,n (pronounce: common) is a joint project between the three Dutch technical universities to build a car for 2020, but in an open source way. I quote: “c,mm,n is an innovative mobility concept; a new way of developing, manufacturing and using cars. By making the blueprint of the c,mm,n car publicly available under an open-source licence we are able to …
RIA Engineering skills or the 6-legged sheep
Remember the happy days of the first version of Java, almost 13 years ago (1995)? Java was hot. All of a sudden, you had the power to write attractive little web applications (Java Applets) that would run in any browser! Websites were never as slow at loading as in those days because everybody wanted smoothly scrolling text applets on their page. It was a huge hype. The first version of Macromedia Flash was introduced about …





