So I've just finished a 2-day iPhone programming course in Portland (I fly back to HNL in about 7 hours) put on by Mobile Orchard's Dan Gringsby. I've learned a lot in 2 days, mostly about dealing with the workflow issues in Xcode (I'm an old emac...
iPhone is Windows
Android is the rest of the market
Do you want to make money, or have a hackable phone?
If the former, iPhone, else, get an Android phone.
(Having lived with an unlocked G1 in Europe for the Summer, I can tell you that the And...
Adobe has also released a toolkit to take Flash CS5-based (and ActionScript 3 based) programs and put them on the iPhone (as stand-alone apps).
Both seem like bad ideas to me. Oh, I'm sure they work, but the native API on the iPhone is CocoaTouch...
PDP-8? We used those at the newspaper in 'vegas. Pure assembly.
First computer ('real' computer) was a DEC-10, followed by an 11/780, followed by 3 11/750s, all in 'C'.
Started in 1978 on a Harris H800, so David beat me, but I'm still under 50. :-)
1) Java. Its a four-letter word, and its full of bile. 'nuff said. Eliminate it, substitute python.
2) Very little focus on the immediate future of the industry. Its obvious that multicore is coming on strong, and companies like Google are focuse...
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Also interested. Lifetime (30 years) of C, nearly no Obj-C.
Life circumstance (open heart surgery 30 days ago) leaves me with a ton of time on my hands.
Just can't seem to get started.
already own the Mac(s), iPhone 3GS, iPod Touch (2G), enrolle...
it wasn't the first, by far.
But it did have a good idea (CSMA), which got adopted by Bob Metcalf into Ethernet. (Not that CSMA/CD is used much in today's full-duplex switched environments.)
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