Category Archives: Google

Android review and iPhone comparison

Here’s a quick run-down and comparison between the G1 vs. iPhone and Andriod vs. OS X mobile. This is based on side-by-side evaluation with both phones. The phones Keyboard The winner: G1 The G1′s keyboard is awesome. I like it … Continue reading

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Android, iPhone, Java, Objective-C… madness

Russ Teabeault and I were just talking about our recent experiences with Objective-C and developing applications for either the iPhone or OS X. In general, we both agree that Objective-C is necessary, but painful. The language is quasi-dynamic, not very … Continue reading

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Google Code could be EXTREMELY dangerous

I host a number of projects including JCatapult over at Google code. We use the wiki over there for our documentation because it is simple and centralized. The wiki is stored inside the SubVersion repository and when you update the … Continue reading

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GMail IMAP doesn’t work for mailing lists (conversations)

Well, I think I’ll have to ditch GMail’s hosted email completely because of the way that GMail handles conversations (i.e. threads and mailing lists). After switching Inversoft and Pontarelli email to Google, I realized that GMail IMAP has a huge … Continue reading

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Comment spam is too much

First, I want to apologize to all those who have put good comments up on this blog and I haven’t approved them for days or weeks. I just don’t have the time to be checking all the comments I get. … Continue reading

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