Welcome to www.jan-buchholz.de

My name is Jan Buchholz and I graduated in the field of computer science at the RWTH Aachen University in March of 2005. On this website, you can find information about myself, my personal development, and some of my projects. Besides my resume, I have also compiled a couple of interesting websites in relation to my personal interests.

Additionally, I am going to document my next steps in the world of IT here. Important facts, events, and brief field reports will be published in the following section.


News
- Sonntag, 6. Dezember 2009 -
Keeping up with new developments in the fast-moving field of software engineering is hard to do---at best. There is a constant discussion of new trends, paradigms, and technical terms in professional articles, blogs, and on forums. This is why I was glad to come across the 2 websites DZone and InfoQ. These internet portals collect material of interest to software engineers. The presented articles and video presentations can be voted for and commented on by the readers. Of course they also provide RSS feeds.

- Friday, 9th of October 2009 -
I am currently looking into the world of Android, Google's open source operating system for smartphones. Beside a great amount of available applications, well-documented APIs are ready for interested developers. This system looks like a good reason for me to refresh my knowledge of Java.

- Friday, 3rd of August 2007 -
An update that was overdue: since January of 2006, I am working as an application developer for Ableton Inc. in Berlin. At this company, I work on Live, an audio- and MIDI- sequencer. This application has won several awards in the course of the last years.
I am also available now on Xing (OpenBC).

- Thursday, 28th of October 2005 -
Unfortunately, coJIVE was not chosen to be one of the 22 nomminees fo the Top Talent Awards. The jury, however, awarded the system with the TTA 05 Quality Seal - this seal was only given to the 42 most innovative and creative projects out of a total of 411 entries.

- Thursday, 4th of August 2005 -
Today I received confirmation that coJIVE - the software system I created for my diploma thesis - was accepted as a contribution for this year's Europrix Multimedia Top Talent Award. For this contest, I have created a video (220MB, 25MB, or 17MB), which presents the system and describes its functions. Whether or not we will win one of the awards remains to be seen, of course.