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Ok so the title may be a BIT harsh…but as of yesterday’s firmware update to v20, it’s changed how I’ve used the device - and that is most definitely a plus.
Honestly of all of the updates in the new firmware, there are three I actually care about:
So I haven’t been writing a lot of mobile development here, as I have generally tried to keep my personal opinions and work-related interests atleast slightly separated, I want to make a few comments on Android, after working with it as a developer for a few days. There will probably be atleast a few technical bits in here…if you’re bored, well, deal.
To start with, Android is a bit…over-engineered. It’s a problem I’ve seen a lot of in the past, whenever Java developers would try to get into J2ME for example. They take their academic lessons on proper system design and object object oriented programming and then go on to large, memory intensive, and overly complex mobile applications. And this is my first impression of Android. It’s large, and overly complex. The class listings are huge, and the steps to get things done, while nice in design theory, are numerous.
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So I’ve been sitting here, allowing this blog to stagnate for the past couple of months.
The last real posts I’ve done and gotten any readers for were me complaining about iLife and iMovie…and since then I just haven’t had a chance to do much.
Fastforward to last Friday when I decide to pick things up, and start off by going through comments…
7834 comments in moderation…WHAT?!?!?
So I start going through (I have about 2500 left to sift through still)…of those 7800+ comments I’ve found about 5 real comments in there and a WHOLE lot of spam. And it makes me sad to think that people are actually taking time to read something I’ve written, and taking time to comment on it, and I never reply any noone ever sees it because it’s buried amongst ads for sketchy loan officers and street corner pharmacists. So I’m trudging through, I’m trying to set things up better so that comments will actually get through and spam will be thrown aside, and hopefully this will encourage me to get writing more.
There almost might start to be a slightly businessy side to future posts, as I currently run a small business (of which I don’t think I’ve ever named or linked in this blog…and will probably keep it that way) and it’s just one of the things often on my mind. It’s a hobby, as well as my job, so it fits…and if one of the maybe 5 people who occassionally read this blog disagree, so be it.