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.

Full History and editions on Wikipedia

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Rei Miyamoto Wallpaper

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

Official Website (Japanese)
Character Bio from Wiki

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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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