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Sudoku ported to Android

I've written a free Android version of Sudoku. It's very basic, but after I clean it up I hope it will serve as a good example to beginning Android programmers. Here's a screen shot: The source code and binaries can currently be found...

Tags: Touch Screen, Theme, Eclipse, Documentation, Emulator, Android, Android Life Cycle, Android SDK, Java Development Tools, Open Source, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-02-28

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News to know: Dell; Word; Firefox; iPhone China; Snow Leopard

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Dell continues to bet on 2010 enterprise refresh cycle; Confirms working with China Mobile Sam Diaz: "Inadvertent...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Dell Computer Corp., Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Word, Dana Blankenhorn, Andrew Nusca, Sam Diaz, E-books, Microsoft Windows 7, Web Browsers, Apple Mac OS, Personal Technology, Internet, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2009-08-28

Acer to sell Android netbooks in Q3 2009; will they be cheaper?

Acer to sell Android netbooks in Q3 2009; will they be cheaper?These are very interesting times. There have been a lot of false startswith desktop Linux. Just when we finally think that Linux has broken into the desktop market as with Netbooks, MS figures out a way to snuff out...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Operating systems, Desktops, OPEN SOURCE, netbook, Microsoft Corp., Acer Inc., Linux, operating system, desktop

Discussion threads 2009-06-02

iPhone suffers as Android buoys Linux cause

iPhone suffers as Android buoys Linux causeiPhone suffers as Android buoys Linux causegive my applause to analyst for being full of shite and they predictions as just as good as end of world predictions."report"how can some cristal ball looking by a "research" firm be a report? and and i still...

Tags: Sales strategy, Telecom & Utilities, Operating systems, iPhone Users, Apple iPhone, phone, Apple Inc., Linux

Discussion threads 2009-03-13

How Dell can win in mobility

How Dell can win in mobilityThey can't.Their computers are garbage and Dell should shut down and return the money to the shareholders.yes rightwhat do you know?it seems not much."What today?s phone makers do is make a bunch of different phone designs, with different feature sets sold at different price points."as...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Wireless and Mobility, Wi-Fi, Wired Network, mobile market, Dell Computer Corp., phone, mobility, mobile, hardware

Discussion threads 2009-02-04

David Pogue forecasts a depression for the Storm and I completely agree

David Pogue forecasts a depression for the Storm and I completely agreeNot the highly lauded iPhone killer?NTRE: David Pogue forecasts a depression for the Storm and I completely agreeThis is why we have chosen to only develop our enterprise apps for the iPhone. http://blog.cosential.com/?p=156RE: David Pogue forecasts a depression for...

Tags: Smart phones, Keyboards, Bluetooth, Handhelds, Wi-Fi, Apple iPhone, David Pogue, depression, Pogue

Discussion threads 2008-11-26

iPhone vs. Android development: Day 3

This is the 3rd in a series of 5 posts about an iPhone programming course I'm taking this week. The course is presented by Joe Conway from Big Nerd Ranch. To make things more interesting I'm writing about how iPhone development differs from Android development, a subject with which I'm...

Tags: OpenGL, Apple iPhone, Android, Timers, Textures Textures, MultiTouch, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-11-19

iPhone vs. Android development: Day 2

Welcome to day 2 of a 5-day course on iPhone programming presented by Joe Conway from Big Nerd Ranch. During the course I'll be blogging about the differences between Android and iPhone development. [Read: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day 5] ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, User Interface, Localizable.strings, Android Eclipse Plug-in, UINavigationController, UITabBarController, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-11-18

Beta version of Hello, Android book is out

Ever since Google and other members of the Open Handset Alliance announced the Android platform last November, I've been working on a book to help developers write programs for it. The book, called Hello, Android, is now available in Beta form at the Pragmatic Programmers web site. The current version...

Tags: Version, Adobe PDF, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-07-16

The 5 Stages of iPhone Acceptance

The Five Stages of the Kübler-Ross model The iPhone has become such a part of our collective consciousness that soon entire books are going to be written about the sociological impact of such a groundbreaking, Insanely Great device. Why, it's so dammed important,...

Tags: Apple iPhone, 3G, Linux, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Digital Music, Open Source, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-07-15

Open Source in 2013

<satire> <source> Thank you. (Picture from Fox, America's only network. My picture at the top of this blog is expected to look much like this one in 2013, if I shave and get the combover right.) The hectic but repetitive routine of business and journalism often seems...

Tags: Job, America, World Entertainment Shortage, Recruitment & Selection, Open Source, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-05-16

Salesforce dumping 4,000 PCs for Macs?

Salesforce dumping 4,000 PCs for Macs?Watch what happens at......P&G, Gillette, and a hundred other organizations when someone says that a company with 4000 computers switched. That will make headlines. The "We're too big to switch; it's too complicated, we don't have the software, it's too costly" arguments will start...

Tags: Desktops, Apple Macintosh, Salesforce.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, PC

Discussion threads 2008-04-25

Apple opens iPhone to developers

In a news conference Thursday (otherwise known as Feburary 35th), Apple unveiled the long-awaited iPhone native Software Development Kit SDK. It can be used by any developers to create native applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Up to now, developers have been limited to writing Web apps that ran...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Developer, Application, Apple Macintosh, Google Android, SDK, Apple Inc., Process Lifetime, Android App, iPhone Development, Nib File, Apple Mac OS X, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Hardware, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-03-07

How Android works: The big picture

How Android works: The big pictureSo what's new and special about it?Take computer... load Linux.. load Java.... tell programmer he/she can only write Java programs. Not entirely sure how this is special, novel, or anything other than Google bandwagon jumping at it's finest.It will be interesting to see......how Android...

Tags: Linux, Programming languages, Java, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Windows World, Nokia Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-01-28

How Android works: The big picture

[This article is part of a continuing series on Android, Google's new mobile phone platform. It is excerpted from an upcoming book. --Ed] Some parts of Android will be familiar, such as the Linux Kernel, OpenGL, and the SQL database. Others may be completely foreign, such as...

Tags: Google Inc., Layer, Android, Programming Languages, Linux, Java, Open Source, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-01-28