iPhone modification

Got an iPhone? Like to "improve" the UI? Here's the answer:-)

DBPL - Information Systems

A special edition of the journal Information Systems has just been released. It contains a selection of papers from DBPL'05. This edition was edited by myself and Christoph Koch.

It's been a long time in coming - but enjoy! There are some great papers.

Visited Countries

Visited Countries is a cute little web app where you select the countries you've visited and it generates a map - just like my one above.

New look live

http://www.live.com/ has changed its front page style. I think it's an improvement - what do you think? (I posted a while ago someone's thoughts on redesigning another well-known search engine's front page.)

Is it art?

I found these photographs by Li Wei amusing.

HTC Touch Diamond

Readers of this blog will recall that I'm a happy user of an HTC Touch Windows Mobile Phone.

Nick pointed me to this page with a teaser video for the new HTC Touch Diamond. Wow! In the absence of an iPhone with Active Sync, this looks like a really nice phone. These guys know how to tweak the Windows UI!

OOPSLA 08

Great news: Two papers by friends have just been accepted for publication at OOPSLA'08, which this year will be in Nashville, Tennessee.

1. Matthew and Dino's paper on JStar, which is their separation logic based tool for verifying Java programs.
2. Claudio's paper on his implementation of joins in the production Visual Basic Compiler.

Well done guys!