iPad App

Gräfe und Unzer is Europe's leading publisher for consulting. Our task: conception, screen design and programming of an iPad app demo. We completed this project together with our creative partners of engels+partner. The demo is based on the bestseller cookbook series „Basics“, which was designed by engels+partner.

AHCI Driver for eComStation

On behalf of Mensys B.V., we developed an AHCI driver for their eComStation operating system. The driver is running on OS/2 versions 3 and up as well as all eComStation versions.
The source code is available under the terms of the GPL; if interested, please check out the driver's project site.

Thanks to this project, the latest technology for desktop hard disks is available for the OS/2 family of operating systems.

Musician Community

Hidden Hero is a portal community site that was created to promote local live music; unfortunately, it is available in German language, only.

Main goal was to support the many unknown yet talented hobby musicians who never get their music out of their practice rooms; Hidden Hero wants to help them gain more public recognition and to get them out on stage and actually perform.
The community is currently centralized around the Ammersee area in southern Germany and growing rapdly.

Hidden Hero is based on the brilliant Django project and provides anything expected from a community site, e.g. member homepages (see example), user management, event calendar, ads, forum, search, blog, ...

Sail Around The World Website

The operators of www.wir-sind-weg.eu (we-are-away) are on a sailing trip around the world.

Our task: create a web site that shows their current position as well as the route taken so far on a map on the start page - besides a blog that conains their travel diary.

We used Wordpress as a basis and to provide a full-featured blog site. To provide the position functionality, we developed a Wordpress plugin that receives position emails from the skipper's EPIRB device. This device is rather smart; it can send distress messages as well as "we are ok" messages that contain the current position.

The map screenshot above is from Google Maps. Imagery ©2012 TerraMetrics, Map data ©2012 Google, INEGI, MapLink, Tele Atlas

Form Processing

BHLE is a Windows-based desktop application that we developed for a large German health insurance company. The software is used to describe customer surveys and other forms to assist and speed up OCR-based evaluation of form data.

The software is optimised for large data volumes and speed and was written in C and C++.

POS Software

We helped a local recreation facility to track their sales in a way accepted by the tax authorities.

Our task: create a desktop application running on Windows and Linux that provides the easiest means imaginable to track sales.

We created a desktiop application that is optimised for touch screen operation and is configured with a simple INI-style text file (much simpler to edit than XML). At end of day, the software sends an e-mail that contains all items sold, including article groups and amounts.

The software was written in C++ using wxWidgets.