Assassin's Creed Revelations Game Wallpaper

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Fourth offering in the critically acclaimed Assassin's creed video game console series developed byUbisoft released for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on November 15, 2011 and December 2nd  for Microsoft Windows.  The last game to feature Ezio Auditore da Firenze and the final game to be set in the Renaissance era.

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Perfect World International mmorpg Wallpaper

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A Free to Play mmorpg from Perfect World Beijing

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Keeping it in one’s head

A friend of mine recommended this text on why programmers work at night. Entertaining but still true.

But the blog post referenced  another interesting text written by Paul Graham about the necessity of holding a program in one’s head to be an outstanding programmer. I couldn’t agree more with that he says. I also agree with the corollaries that it is detrimental to treat developers as interchangeable parts in an organisation.

But what got me thinking was the fact that an architect must keep an entire system in the head. Where the programmer has the code as something tangible to base this mental model upon the architect has at best an abstract model and at worst only her own internal representation.
So for an architecture to be successful it both seems to be necessary that there is somebody who has the ability to internalise and reason about an entire system, and that the mental representation is possible to grasp in it’s entirety with (at least) one single mind. There are probably a lot of systems out there that fulfils neither….

List of ECU functions to determine

List of ECU functions to determine

 • fuel delivery • transmission shift points • valve timing • ignition timing, etc. sensors also monitor • oxygen levels of inlet air • oxygen levels of exhaust air • temperatures of inlet air • temperatures of exhaust • temperatures of oil • temperatures of coolant • temperatures of all other fluids like brake, clutch, transmission etc • sensors also monitors and controls functions of features such as ABS, EBD, EPS, ESP, SRS (airbags), etc. whichever applicable.

Maroon 5 Wallpaper

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Grammy award winning American pop rock band from Los Angeles, California
Maroon 5 Official Website

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Elektra Movie Character Wallpaper

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a 2005 superhero film, spin-off from the 2003 film Daredevil, starring the Marvel comic character Elektra Natchios (played by Jennifer Garner).  A spin off game, rarely a sublime idea, was shelved by publishers, though a game was issued for mobile platform.
First appearing in Daredevil comic series #168 (January 1981). Elektra is the world's most lethal woman and one of Marvel's most cold-blooded characters. Elektra is a kunoichi, a female ninja assassin of Greek descent. Her favourite weapon of choice being a bladed sai.

Marvel Comics "Elektra" page
"Elektra" wallpaper for Comic Book Character

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Sword Wallpaper Theme

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Symbolic of liberty and strength, said to be the emblem of military honor. The sword should incite the bearer to a just and generous pursuit of honor and virtue.

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Another Earth Movie Wallpaper

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a 2011 American science fantasy/drama film directed by Mike Cahill in his feature film debut.  The film stars William Mapother and Brit Marling.

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Bar Refaeli Wallpaper

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Born 1985 in Hod HaSharon, Israel

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Justice League Wallpaper

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The Justice League, also called the Justice League of America or JLA, is a fictional superhero team that appears in comic books published by DC Comics.  First appearing in The Brave and the Bold #28 February/March 1960.

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Rei Miyamoto Wallpaper

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Principal female character from the manga and anime series "Highschool of the Dead"

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Link Wallpaper

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Main protagonist in Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda series of video games.  Shigeru Miyamoto's most famous creation aside from a certain moustache wielding plumber.   Inspired by Miyamoto's childhood memories of exploring the forests and caves that surround the Japanese city of Kyoto.

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More on-line lectures on software architecture

I was discussing with one of my colleagues at the department if there were any introductory or summary presentations on-line about software architecture. I have already listed some on-line lectures about software archtiecture in the blog, but a quick search revelad some interesting ones:

• An Introduction to Software Architecture and the Risk-Centric Model by George Fairbanks. George is a an excellent lecturer and has written one of the best books available on software architecture. If you have the oportunity to discuss with him, take it. Too bad the sound is so bad in this video clip.
• Conscious Software Development: Architecture with Jeff Mckenna. Why not look through all parts in the series while you are at it?
• Software Architecture Document by Philippe Back. I don't know who this guy is, but he manages to convey a lot of essentials in 12 minutes
• SEI has a number of webinars related to software architecture. Unfortunately I can't get them to play on my computer, maybe you can?
• Out and About: Software Architecture with Simon Brown. A short clip with a view on what a developer needs to do to be an architect.
• Considering a Software Architect Career by Marc Ferrentino. A very short clip on what skills you need if becoming an architect.

Spawn Wallpaper

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aka Albert Francis "Al" Simmons/Jim Downing.  Character created by Spider-Man legend Todd MacFarlane, Spawn was a murdered CIA operative who makes a deal with the demon Malebolgia, returning to Earth as an immortal Hellspawn.  First appeared in Spawn #1 May 1992.

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MeeGo is out, what is in?

There has been some turmoil in the world of infotainment platforms. Intel has left Meego and have partnered with Samsung in Tizen. This just a few months after Meego 1.2 vas deemed GENIVI compliant. I have no idea if Tizen aims to be GENIVI compliant as well. But there are already some commercial platforms that are GENIVI compliant.

I have been involved in the Open Infotainment Labs, a project patially funded by VINNOVA aiming att evaluating radically different work methods compared to standard practice at most car manufacturers. We integrated the system in a car this week, 16 weeks after start of development.

Ichigo Kurosaki Bleach Wallpaper

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Principal character in the anime and manga franchise Bleach.  First appeared in Bleach Episode 1, "A Shinigami is Born," 2004.  Rukia's stand-in, fighting to protect people from evil spirits called hollows and sending good spirits, wholes, to Soul Society.

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AUTOSAR as open source

This might be the coolest thing I have seen so far: There exist an open source distributions of AUTOSAR!
And it's local to us here in Gothenburg, should I be embarassed for not hearing about this earlier?

Caveat: Note that if you intend to use AUTOSAR in a business setting you need to fulfill the conditions according to the AUTOSAR consortium.
After some e-mail exchange I now know that the open source AUTOSAR BSW software (ver 3.1) is available under a GPLv2-license.

Darker Than Black Anime Wallpaper

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Anime series, first aired Japan, April 5, 2007 with it's sequel, Darker than Black: Ryūsei no Gemini released Oct 8th.

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