Marcus Hellberg

So apparently I haven’t updated my blog in quite a while. Quite a lot has happened since the last update.
I started working at IT Mill, the company behind the Vaadin framework.I’ve gotten off to a good start, I’m currently working on something I call TouchKit. It’s a combination of a few custom components and extensions [...]

A while back, I needed to quickly write some documentation that needed to be in XHTML format. Writing in plain XHTML is a pain, so I decided to write the documentation in Textile and then convert it to XHTML before publishing.
The problem I found was that all Textile converters were made for use in blogs [...]

One of the most disappointing facts in the Nexus One release, besides the fact that it’s not officially coming to Finland, was the lack of multitouch. The big screen on the Nexus One is like made for using multitouch gestures.
Well, fortunately, US patent law doesn’t apply here in Europe. It looks as though the Nexus One will [...]

Looks like the Boxee Box has finally been announced officially. It features a quite unusual design that I like and supports almost every possible video format you could think of. It’s supposed to go on sale in the first half of 2010 for less than $200. I really hope that they ship this one internationally. The [...]

I ordered my HTC Hero in August, right after it was released. As I wrote earlier, my decision to choose an Android phone had been long and I was really happy when I finally got the phone in the mail. I had a Nokia E71 before the Hero, and the difference felt like going from [...]

Despite the blog being only a few weeks old, I’m already getting a lot of spam in the comments. I have now installed the WordPress Hashcash plugin to prevent spambots from sending comments. The plugin works by requiring the browser to perform a proof-of-work to ensure that it is in fact a browser and not a [...]

I use my Xbox 360 for most of my media viewing in the living room. This can sometimes be a hassle since I’m using a Mac, and Microsoft hasn’t exactly made it easy to share media from a mac to an Xbox 306. I use a third party program, Connect360, that easily allows me share media [...]

I went to see James Cameroon’s Avatar last night in 3D. While the movie itself was good, I feel let down by the technology. I had just read Wilson Rothman’s experiences of watching the movie from the first row, so I knew that front-row seats were something to avoid. Instead, I booked our seats in [...]

Happy New Year everyone! The blog has gotten off to a good start, I hope you come back next year.
PS. Don’t forget my Google Wave invitation giveaway if you are looking for an invite

There seems to be a lot of interest in the old post about digital TV in Linux that I dug up from my archives. Please leave me a comment if you follow the instructions in the post so I know if the information in it is still relevant or if it should be updated. I [...]