- 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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Links #7
Jun 3
Links #6
May 21
- 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.
Links #5
May 11
- 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)
Links #4
May 3
- 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!
Links
Apr 23
- ‘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.
Links
Apr 15
- 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!
Links
Apr 10
- 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.