Topic
Computing
A collection of 38 posts
IOS 4 (formerly iPhone OS 4)
The Gold Master of IOS 4 was released to developers this week. I downloaded it and installed it on my iPhone 3G, which is the oldest hardware it will run on. It runs a bit slowly, but that’s to be expected.
There are features such as the multitasking that
DTerm is a great app for the Mac
I’ve been using git for awhile now and I also use Eclipse as my IDE. Eclipse doesn’t yet have good support for git, though they’re working on it. So I do a lot of command line git commands.
I found the DTerm app and it’s great!
XCode still sucks
Nope. I was right the first time. XCode sucks.
Getting back to work on Sea Glass
I’ve been taking a break for the past month or so, playing with mobile device development. I’ll get back to that, but it’s time to get back to work on Sea Glass.
Databases - persistence layer or primary entity?
So a couple of weeks ago I was in San Francisco talking with Ken Orr and my old high school/college friend Stan Switzer and Stan was holding forth on an idea that I think is pretty self-evidently true.
This is that when considering software systems, the database is the
XCode sucks
Okay, I don’t really have enough experience with it to make that judgment, but I doubt further familiarity will change my opinion.
Developing for the iPhone
Man, Android is a lot easier to develop for than the iPhone. Admittedly, part of this is my detestation for Objective C, but part of it is that the Android framework is very simple.
I’m having a really hard time forcing myself to even look at Objective C, let
Mobile platform comments
I’ve recently downloaded the Palm WebOS SDK, the iPhone SDK, and the Android SDK and have been playing with developing for them. I doubt I’ll ever do anything serious, so it’s not a critical issue for purchasing a tablet.
Having written some play apps for all three
Trying to find an internet tablet
So I currently have a 17″ MacBook Pro, a Kindle 2, and an iPhone 3G. (I also have a Linux server and a Windows entertainment system, but that’s not relevant to the discussion.)
When I work, I work on the MacBook, because it’s an excellent development environment. It’
More maven plugins (and site skins)
I've created a couple of site skins, one that looks like this blog for my use, and one that's much simpler and blue for use with Sea Glass documentation.
I've also created a successor to my HTML Filter Site plugin called docbkx-wrapper-plugin that wraps