Friday, January 10, 2003

Beside Palmila I've started a second mobile logging project one year ago together with my old pal gerin trautenberger. It's based on the concept that users of mobile devices synchronize hierarchical outlines on the fly. that means that all informations are structured in form of outlines no matter what the content might be. Finally the whole application consists of on huge root file, which uses certain prototypical suboutlines which get simply cloned. E.g.: a buddy prototype and its clone: template buddy     var buddy name        first name        surname        address        e-mail        irc        telephone        mobile phone        homepage tom     first name        tom     surname        fuerstner     address        schloss 1        a-2435 ebergassing     e-mail        tom@irgendwo.at     irc     telephone        ++43-1-11111111     mobile phone        ++43-676-11111111     homepage        http://radio.weblogs.com/0100461 The tricky part of the application is the fact that on the mobile device are running some daemon processes which synchronize the outliners periodically in accordance with service application which runs on the side of a telecom provider. For example think about the buddy list. Every minute a process checks your location through triangulation. This delivers as information from inside which gsm cell you are operating. the same process checks all the phonenumbers of all persond inside your buddy list. If it should happen that some of your friends are inside of the same gsm cell area the daemon immediately informs you and your friens about this fact. At the same time it arranges a meeting between you and your friends by delivering an address and the necessary waypoints as an outline to you and your friends. I know that all this sounds rather dry but the before mentioned ideas in combination with the right design....... 8:08:57 PM