Patrick Mueller has written a pretty good developer-centric overview of where Android stands today. I’m eager to see Android make it onto more handsets, and for the UI to pick up more polish. I find that over time, user interface polish takes on more and more importance for me, and the iPhone’s nicer interface insures that I’ll be sticking with it until Google makes some pretty major improvements to Android, and until they find a hardware partner who designs devices as well as Apple does.
Never write code in Java when a Perl script will do. Never write Perl when a simple shell script will do. Never write a shell script when a single shell command will do. When you’re programming, the relentless pursuit of simplicity nearly always serves you well.
The specifics of the lesson were that by using curl and cron you can successfully avoid the use of Quartz, Commons HttpClient, and LWP, along with a vast horde of other dependencies.
You have to appreciate the honesty of MySQL’s Michael Widenius:
Don’t expect that all critical bugs that you may have encountered in 5.0 to be fixed in 5.1. Even if we have fixed a big majority of the bugs from 5.0 some really critical ones still haven’t been addressed.
I was very sad to read that Doris Dungey, a.k.a. Tanta, one of the two bloggers at Calculated Risk, has passed away. She represented everything that’s good about blogging. Erudite, witty, and incredibly informative, she did a great job of making the complexities of the mortgage market understandable to outsiders like myself. Nobody who followed her work over the past two years has been terribly surprised by the great unraveling we’re seeing unfold.
My thoughts go out to her friends and family.
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I was more impressed by Amazon.com’s iPhone application before I learned how it works. Even so, pretty cool.