In case you had any doubts that the iPhone was about to jump into a dominant position in the marketplace after the announcements the other day, I present this:

The company will make Java Virtual Machine available by June to enable Java apps for Apple's smartphone.
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Think about this for a sec. Seriously. Sun doesn't even make the ( Read more... )

I heard about a new browser called Flock the other day in a magazine. Decided to try it out. It's built on Gecko (the same rendering engine that Firefox/Mozilla use - heck, it even mirrors some of the plugins and updates). It's pretty neat so far - the main difference between it and other browsers is it has a lot of built-in integration with social ( Read more... )

If you've programmed much, you've probably had to program with a teammate. Maybe more than one. At first, this seems like a nice arrangement. You do some of the work, they (and I mean they in both the plural and grammatically incorrect single sense) do some of it, everybody is happy.

If only it worked that way. You see, it just doesn't add up like ( Read more... )

So as I mentioned previously, I've been shopping a lot on iTunes. The primary consequence of this is that I've been listening to a lot of heavy metal. And symphonic metal. And prog metal. And orchestral metal. And... yeah, you get the point. Besides the fact there there are a lot of types of metal (which I didn't really know before, but yeah, there ( Read more... )

I had an interview with Agilent Technologies today. It went really well - the guy I interviewed with and I got along well, and the questions they asked me made it pretty apparent that they're looking for people like me. I hope this one pans out, it shows a lot of potential. Plus, they expressed interest in Ruby! I loooove Ruby. Best programming ( Read more... )

I recently picked up an iPhone. It cost me quite a bit - I had to pay a cancellation fee to Verizon (I had a pretty good experience with them, actually, but they simply didn't have any good smartphones... don't even ask about the HTC piece of junk I tried before I left them) in addition to paying a signup fee to AT&T. And then there's the phone ( Read more... )

Some little updates:

• I had my interview with HP. I think it went pretty well - it happened to be a "compound" interview. By that I mean that I actually interviewed with two people in different departments at the same time. They had very different questions (one guy was mainly in firmware, the other enterprise Java), but I think I was able to answer ( Read more... )

I've been telling myself that I need to do an internship this summer for a while. When a bunch of internships showed up on the campus career center site, I applied to a bunch of them, including 4 or 5 from HP. I was not granted interviews for two of them, which, while I realize I shouldn't take personally, did kinda hurt inside. I mean, I felt I ( Read more... )

Although it's totally awesome, my lack of time to play the game is not. Heck, I don't even have Raspberyl (who is absurdly cute looking, btw) in my party yet, and she's the main heroine. The game actually has four main characters this time - up from Disgaea 2's two (there were three in the first game) - and so far, only three have made an ( Read more... )

I've got three upper-division computer classes - networking, software engineering, and network security - and one economics course this semester. It's a lot of work. I'm feeling rather buried under all the stuff I have to do for class... and on top of that, I have a job. *Sigh* I'm really thinking that just taking three classes next semester sounds ( Read more... )