July 2009
2 posts
Android is a step backwards (for now)
Let me start off by saying that I’ve done some recreational hacking on Android and I really like it. From a developer perspective it’s very much a step forward.
But the whole situation in mobile reminds me of the mess on the desktop when I was in college. Back then we had 16-bit windows, the new Win32 APIs, some Unix layer stuff. Then there were the native APIs, the MSVC libraries,...
Ubuntu, Vista, Cygwin and all that
I just purchased a new Acer Timeline, an ultra-thin and ultra-light laptop with amazing battery life. First impressions of the machine are fantastic, but I’m facing yet again the recurring dilemma: what O/S?
I’m generally a Unix person, and most of my time is spent either in a terminal, Emacs, a web browser and, sometimes, Eclipse and Matlab. For these things, Linux is fine. But I...