Best Software Award 2007 – Nominees Announced!

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The Nominees for the Best Software Award 2007 have been announced by Smartphone and Pocket PC magazine, that is the preliminary list isn’t preliminary any longer… and guess… yes a project of mine is still nominated ;)
As of writing these lines, BatteryStatus Advanced (the code-base is build on top of BatteryStatus Free) is on the list and therefore nominated for this Award in the category “Today information plug-ins”.
I’ve seen a lot of today-plugins released 2006/2007 with novel and/or innovative ideas and by great and enthusiastically developers, so it’s a great honor BatteryStatus being nominated :)

Maybe some background/history about BatteryStatus could fit in here. Project BatteryStatus started end of 2006. At this time i got my prophet and after some time of playing with i missed a bunch of less but quite useful functions, hence i started a very very small today-plugin for these quite handy functions. Then with great help of and in collaboration with forum.xda-developers.com which by and by got to a source of innovative and brilliant ideas, BatteryStatus got more and more functions and now there is an Advanced version with fully customization support by state-of-the-art xml-application and multi-language support and more … (and i got a lot of much appreciated online contacts too ;) ).

There were some simple and hopefully reasonably design principles since starting of BatteryStatus Free (in consideration of embedded systems with less system resources). Some of them are a small footprint, less usage of system resources by using notifications or avoiding unnecessary/redundant codepaths and so on. In fact even the advanced versions dll is occupying about 128 kB of memory only (regardless of runtime resources of stack/heap..). I didn’t and don’t want BatteryStatus taking 1MB or more memory only for some simple and useful things.
The advanced version is about to get from development beta status to a shareware version and we will see what comes next on stage hehe

In short: i’m very glad about Batterystatus being nominated for this award :)

Of course there is much more i could write about BatteryStatus, but .. maybe you should try it and see what community collaboration could create..

Best Software Award 2007!

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Great news i’ve seen at Smartphone and Pocket PC magazine (a well known and popular magazine for ppc scene). BatteryStatus Free (a freeware project of mine) and BatteryStatus Advanced (a project of mine too) have been listed on the preliminary list for the nominees for “Best Software Award 2007” in the category Today-screen Plug-in :)

Well let’s see what comes next and for the time being head over to pocketpcmag.com and have a look at what’s going on there.

Diploma Thesis submitted

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Der schriftliche Teil der Diplomarbeit ist fertig und die Präsentation / der Vortrag (Bilder 1 – 2 – 3) ist auch abgehalten worden :)

Die Arbeit wurde unter den Bedingungen der ,,Creative Commons Lizenz” veröffentlicht und kann dadurch für Bildungszwecke kostenlos weiterverwendet werden.

Wer Interesse hat, kann sich die Diplomarbeit über die Treiberprogrammierung hier oder hier (wdmthes2.pdf) herunterladen. (Weiterhin erreichbar über die Webseite von Prof. Dr. Hubert Högl.)

Hier noch eine kleine Kurzfassung: Abstract.

Genauso wie es ein Mitstudent gemacht hat, gibt es hier noch ein kleines Bild der gedruckten und gebundenen Ausgabe mit einem schönen gerippten Hardcover: Gedruckt und gebundenes Exemplar mit Abstract – Gedruckt und gebundenes Exemplar