Yes, we did it: Last night we submitted our paper abstract to MobiSys 2008 (Ph.D. studies)
Mikkel and I worked like crazy the last couple of weeks. Our cooperation began many weeks before I moved to Aarhus but while I stayed in Aarhus my working hours per week sky rocketed. Working all day regardless of the week day was quite fun. But now I am a bit exhausted. However, we submitted the abstract for our paper last night. The full paper deadline is 4. Dec. So, no time to rest! ;-)

So far, half of the paper is written and the results for the other half are already in place. Filling the remaining seven pages with text and shinny graphs shouldn't be so difficult! ;-) Hopefully, we will meet the deadline! Another weekend working is ahead of me. But I am eager to get my research work published at MobiSys 2008 which means no mercy! ;-)

Cheers,
Thomas
Posted by Thomas King at 15:39 2007-11-27 | Trackbacks (0) | Comments (0)

PerCom 2008 (Ph.D. studies)
Today, I received the PerCom notification email. It states that my paper is rejected. Bad news, however, after the PerCom is before the PerCom. ;-) Let's see what happens next year!

I am going to overhaul the paper and I will re-submit it to another conference.

Cheers,
Thomas
Posted by Thomas King at 11:41 2007-11-06 | Trackbacks (0) | Comments (0)

Safe 2.4.0 User Review and Application of the Day (MobileKnox / Safe)
Safe 2.4.0 got another great user review. Just have a look: Review

The guys from Softonic informated me that they selected Safe 2.4.0 as application of the day. I am pretty proud that this happens the second time within a few weeks. I looks like the Softonic guys really like Safe!

Best regards,
Thomas
Posted by Thomas King at 22:10 2007-11-03 | Trackbacks (0) | Comments (0)

JSTUN used in Education (JSTUN)
I recently checked the webserver statistics about JSTUN and I realized that a lot of visitors came from the University of Washington. After digging a little bit deeper I found that JSTUN is used for a homework assignment for one of the their computer communication networks courses. It is nice to see that a lot of people are using JSTUN. :-)

Cheers,
Thomas
Posted by Thomas King at 22:08 2007-11-03 | Trackbacks (0) | Comments (0)

Safe 2.4.0, SafeDesktop 0.9.6, and JSTUN 0.7.0 (General)
In the last couple of days I released a lot of new versions of software I am currently maintaining. It started with updates for Safe and SafeDesktop. The most important feature here is that Safe offers now a go-to button. Let's assume you store a long list of entries in your Safe then in the past it was quite cumbersome to get to the entry that is in the middle of your list. You had to press the go-down button of your phone quite often. My Safe stores currently 123 entries and it annoyed me very often to wait for around 10 seconds to get to the desired position. So, I came up with the idea of a go-to button. You press this button and enter the first character of the entry you want to see. Magically, the list jumps to the first entry that start with the character you entered a few seconds ago. It is just a small feature but it saves me some time and makes the use of Safe even more easy. :-)

It is more than a year ago that I released the last version of JSTUN. During this time I worked on a STUN-server and on an ICE-integration. Most of this was requested by Jive Software. Unfortunately, I was too busy to implement all this in a short period of time. Additionally, I lost contact to the Jive guys. So, after releasing the latest version of JSTUN it it a great moment to get in contact with the great guys from Jive again!

Cheers,
Thomas
Posted by Thomas King at 15:30 2007-11-03 | Trackbacks (0) | Comments (0)