Atmail Mobile Office
Working all the way Around Australia
atmail: Day at the atmail Peregian beach office - Get up, hit the beach, surf, cafe breakfast, walk to the office, code, code, code, rinse repeat.
atmail: Atmail 6.2 now available with PUSH mail support and a stack of other new features! Checkout the changelog at: http://bit.ly/d685Wj enjoy!
atmail: Countdown to releasing Atmail 6.2 with PUSH support!
View more on the Atmail twitter
Random pictures taken from the live CarCam on the roof
Ben Duncan, the founder of Atmail has embarked on a 12 month journey around the entire of Australia, in a specially modified 4WD Land Rover to demonstrate the ability to work online and maintain a virtual presence using the latest technologies.
Australia provides breathtaking scenery and wide open-spaces to find inspiration and product R&D ideas you would normally struggle to find at a regular city office, no matter how much coffee!
Currently 585 days on the road since 27th Jan
Two major software releases on the road, thousands of lines of code committed, over 15,000 km driven, and 4,000+ car-cam pictures taken ...
What powers the mobile office?
- Land Rover Defender 2003
- 65W CIGS Solar Panel
- 12v 260 Amp hour gel-cell battery
- MacBook Pro + HP Windows laptop
- VMware, Textmate, PHP, MySQL & Jquery development environment
- Telstra NextG - 1-5Mbit mobile connection - 98% of the Australian population has coverage
- Engel 12V Fridge
- Gas cooker, custom built storage
- Safari Roof top tent
- IP Network camera on the roof - 640x480 image every 5 minutes
- Inbuilt eeePc Linux server for car and email gateway
- And loads of water for the Outback ...
