fabian writes.

Explorations of a city in the snow.

I board the plane to Addis.

I went to Lofoten in Norway for a four-night getaway with some friends this week.

I wrapped up at Google last week, but I spent the months before I left working on an Australian Election tracker map, which was completely unlike any project I’d worked on before.

Posts a review of an embassy direct from Google Maps every six hours.

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I gave a talk at #OMRS15 on MSF’s efforts to make Project Buendia easy to customize and deploy, with a focus on nutrition programs.

I’ve been working on Android apps at Google for about two years.

Required hardware and an open-source project For the Buendia medical records system project, we’re building an Android tablet app that’s capable of displaying and modifying electronic records out in the field.

Lots of developers love the Application class as a container for application-wide resources, because: it’s a singleton, so it’s easy to ensure that each of these global resources is only initialized once it has access to a Context (in fact, it is a Contex…

This website has always been about having an identity on the internet.

So today Bill Shorten, Australian opposition leader, came to work to chat about Computer Science / Engineering education, and I gave him a demo of Android Auto.

I was in London for the last month working on an Ebola Crisis Response project.

Steph and I went to Iran with a friend who was going back to visit her family.

I wrote and gesticulated wildly in a video talk for Google I/O this year on how Android Auto works.

During my thesis, I’d found that sensitivity analysis was something that a lot of researchers talked about but rarely explained.

A foray into aspect-oriented programming to make IPC a little easier.

Rookie mistakes in an incredibly complex DVCS and how to fix them.

Seeing the static keyword as a convenience to the programmer, instead of as an integral part of the OOP paradigm.

Information Technology - it’s an awfully un-glamourous pair of words.

My undergraduate thesis has two main outcomes.

A couple of months ago, I did a presentation on “re-humanising people through design” for a job interview.

The idea of four hundred embittered, burdened men and their families flocking to a man who was chosen by God to be king is just… odd.

I finished off an app for the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace this week, it’s called Timecard.

…And, I have to say, there’s been plenty of times in my life when I’ve longed for something as blunt as this.

In the last instalment, we took a bit of a look at troubleshooting I2C connections between Arduino microcontrollers and peripherals.

Well, I’m doing a project at Uni at the moment in a team of eight.

When it comes to understanding my relationship with Jesus, I feel a great need to put myself into someone else’s shoes.