Screaming Penguin - Source Does Matter

Announcing a beta release of the Android SDK

Upgrading the SDK

A first look at the Google Android SDK

Stevey's Blog Rants - Business requirements are bullshit.

I like the headline too, and the thoroughness of the article, and completely agree - so I thought I would try to do my little part to propagate this knowledge (link it here - etc). Really, I know how hard this is for many PMs and "business analysts" (don't get me started), but it's true.

I was recently tasked with helping to create a Java class that had the same command line options and operation as a C executable. We already had a Java API that handled the actual work, so the goal was really just to handle the command line options and exit codes, hook into the API correctly for all the options, and output the correct stdout and stderr responses.

SproutCore, a Cocoa inspired Ajax framework that uses Ruby, is pretty impressive at first glance - and it's apparently Apple's choice for web apps.

I don't know much about it, but I still find it hard to believe that anyone is going to be able to compete with GWT (or more appropriately the GWT approach) in terms of ease of development, re-use capability, and performance.

In an article entitled Rich Internet Applications: VM Runtimes or Browser Standards?, Frank Somers at Artima serves up a nice starting point to what I think is a very important and timely debate.

The work Maarten Volders has done for his Jazoon 08 presentation is fantastic, really. Rarely do I see (or check out later) a presentation that is both really engaging and also informative, but this is just that.

At a new gig I started recently one of the tasks I have is hitting the ground running and getting familiar with (at least) a lot of code on a lot of projects.