• Android Development – Database Management
  Good tutorial on using SQLite on Android
• iPad vs stone
  How does the iPad compare to a rock?
• BP Public Relations (BPGlobalPR) on Twitter
  Much more entertaining than BP’s official Twitter account.
• It’s OK Not to Write Unit Tests
  Functional tests are more useful than unit tests, here are a few good reasons why.
• Fantom – Boring by Design
  “Boring” is a very underrated feature for programming languages.
• Lost Meets Lucasarts
  Pure geek awesomery.
• Using C in GCC is OK
  gcc to be rewritten in C++: “We should use features that are relatively easy for C programmers to understand”
• LucasArts Posters – LucasForums
  Amazing work on the finest game posters from LucasArts

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• ottogunn’s Channel
  I just can’t help chuckling at this awesome prank.
• Change Id4f8b683: memset.c | review.source Code Review
  Minor bug, right?
• How much can the IDE predict what you will write in the next seconds?
  Interesting research work on improving code completion in Eclipse
• Gosling on the Oracle/Sun acquisition
  Gosling: “Oracle made a rubble out of Sun”. This is getting ugly.
• Music Notation with HTML5 Canvas
  Very cool use of the Canvas
• Java platform roundtable, Spring 2010
  Interesting thoughts from various experts on Java’s State of the Union
• Smart GWT Showcase
  Smart GWT has become very impressive
• Sayonara, iPhone: Why I’m Switching to Android – Techtonic Shifts Blog – Newsweek.com
  One Steve Jobs down, one to go.

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• Internet Explorer Falls Below 60% Market Share
  I don’t really care what browser people use as long as it’s not Internet Explorer. And Safari. Oh and Opera too.
• Ultima4
  Ultima 4 in Flash! Eat it, iPad!
• Maven Developers – Julia Antonova/Tumlare is out of office.
  Another reason why you should never use email auto responders on public lists.
• TIOBE Software: Tiobe Index
  C, Java, C++ and PHP get the lion’s share. Javascript in a surprising 10th position at 2.5%.
• Java Post Mortem with Gilad Bracha
  A lot of improvement suggestions that Gilad is making today would have been a disaster in 1995 for Java.
• ARM Powered Android LEGO Rubik’s Speedcuber
  Rubik’s Cube + Droid + Lego = three times the coolness
• Comment on “I’m a gamer, but I hadn’t played WoW until the other night. Does anyone else think it kinda sucks?”
  Very cool anecdote about WoW’s attention to graphic details.
• Android passes the iPhone
  Apple had a 10 million head start when Android shipped its first device…
• Disney’s Pixar Uses Adobe Flash for the Toy Story 3 site
  Some Apple affiliates haven’t received the memo
• GUI interface using visual basic to track the killers IP address
  Is your IP address safe from GUI’s written in Visual Basic?
• Wizard101
  Flash can be used for good too! (cute RPG for kids)

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• Introducing Kilim
  If java.util.concurrent is not your bag, Actors can help.
• tempalias – Temporary Email Aliases
  A simple temporary email generator, with a more modern UI than mailinator.
• Large scale application development and MVP – Google Web Toolkit – Google Code
  Introduction to the MVP pattern with GWT
• Below Minimum: Netbook Gaming?
  A lot of great suggestions to play games on an underpowered netbook (read the comments as well).
• Patrick Stewart on Extras
  Great scene between Patrick Stewart and Ricky Gervais
• One mentally deranged junkyard kitten
  “My girlfriend thinks the cat has reactive attachment disorder because her mother abandoned her at a young age; personally, I just think the kitten is an asshole.”
• Git Cheat Sheet – Guides – GitHub
  Good summary of git’s main commands and recipes.
• Compiler theory, quantum physics and Fermat’s theorem
  Yup, all of the above in one, convenient place.
• Project Amiga Juggler
  Reimplementing the Amiga juggler in Java!

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• ‘Re: git versus CVS (versus bk)’ – MARC
  A remarkably objective (for Linus) comparison of CVS and git. Not that there’s any contest, to be honest.
• Who is preventing the release of Java 1.7?
  A cautionary tale to anyone who thinks that opensourcing automatically frees software (make sure you read Neal’s response).
• HTML5 presentation
  Beautiful interactive overview of HTML5
• iPhone/iPad development, by jwz
  This is why he sells beer.
• INITCOMMONCONTROLSEX Structure (Windows)
  When extending interfaces, it’s sometimes wiser to use “2” as a suffix.
• C | //File ISBN Validation System
  Who knew validating an ISBN number was so hard?
• DataMapper is inherently broken
  This is actually a great illustration of the benefits of checked exceptions
• Bruce Eckel is Wrong
  Checked exceptions are a good thing, learn to use them properly.

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• Time to move on… : On a New Road
  James Gosling leaves Sun/Oracle, and he seems quite bitter about it.
• MUSHIHIMESAMA FUTARI Ver.1.5 stage 5 boss[ultra]
  You think that WoW raid bosses are hard?
• Tao Effect Blog » Blog Archive » Steve Jobs’ response on Section 3.3.1
  Steve Jobs responds to criticism and stands by his decision, citing… Gruber.
• Want it? Give. (Ruby on Rails)
  Ruby on Rails is in a bad shape, and it’s your fault.
• The Stab language
  There’s a lot to like in this new JVM language that mixes both Java and C#
• Sleep is Death Review
  Probably the closest a video game has ever come to providing an experience similar to Dungeons and Dragons, but with endless possibilities
• Test How Your Site Looks on the iPad
  Sure, you can switch the user agent, but here is a simpler and more realistic way of doing it
• These Korean Android Commercials Make Me Smile
  The green droid grew teeth!

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• YouTube – PIXELS
  I dare you not to chuckle at least once
• Bug #557177 in upstart (Ubuntu): “init: support mandatory arguments, or prevent starting of tasks without any arguments”
  Let’s hope the Ubuntu maintainers are a bit more open-minded than this guy
• Daring Fireball: New iPhone Developer Agreement Bans the Use of Adobe’s Flash-to-iPhone Compiler
  You know that something related to Apple is really evil when Gruber is only posting neutral comments about it.
• Apache Felix OSGi Tutorial
  Very well written OSGi tutorial
• South Park – You Have 0 Friends
  Good to see South Park back to their usual brilliance
• Using Scala to teach programming
  I think Scala is too complicated to teach programming and that a mix of Java + {Ruby|Python} would probably be a better combination
• A Brief Eve History (Zhek Kromtor – Multiboxing)
  Awesome multibox set up.
• android-scripting – Project Hosting on Google Code
  Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to develop on their phone with the language of their choice.

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