»Fotofiler«
The idea was to develop a desktop application for image files, utilizing the automatic interpretation of naming conventions. Competition: The technical approach (today) is standard in reverse engineering, there are several applications utilizing it. In image processing, about 5 years later Lightroom provided similar functionality. Course: Among others Henrik Tramberend, Jan Röhl and Susanne Hein took part in this project. It ran from June 2003 to April 2004. It was concluded with Version 1 (beta).
Automation
I have occasionally pursued ideas for work organization with small distributed systems. »Small«: Other than very large ones, like the Internet. Or large ones, like private messaging systems for corporations. Their methodical commonality are generative techniques or meta-programming.