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For some time now I’ve been wanting to research more deeply about the internals of Android. Until now, though, this was just a sentiment. Then, a couple of weeks ago I’ve finally managed to replace my iPhone for an Android phone, and that was the final motivator for me to actually get into learning more ( Read more... )

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Some interesting changes have been happening in my professional life, so I wanted to share it here to update friends and also for me to keep track of things over time (at some point I will be older and will certainly laugh at what I called “interesting changes” in the ol’days). Given the goal, I apologize ( Read more... )

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It was already dead. In some senses, anyway.

Google announced a couple of days ago that they’re advancing into the business of GPS guided navigation, rather than staying with their widely popular offering of mapping and positioning only. This announcement affected the rest of the industry immediately, and ( Read more... )

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This post is not about what you think it is, unfortunately. I actually do hope to go to the Easter Island at some point, but this post is about a short story which involves geohash.org, Groundspeak (from geocaching.com), and very very poor minded behavior.

The context

So, before anything else, it’s ( Read more... )

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More than 40 years ago, a guy named Douglas Parkhill described the concept of utility computing. He described it as containing features such as:

• Essentially simultaneous use of the system by many remote users.
• Concurrent running of different multiple programs.
• Availability of at least the same range of ( Read more... )

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Alright, so I appreciate the idea of RESTful Web Services, but I’ve got a small dilemma I’d appreciate some opinions on.

In the RESTful Web Services book, by Leonard Richardson and Sam Ruby, there’s emphasis on making the programmable web look like the human web, by following an architecture oriented to ( Read more... )

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Backwards and forwards compatibility is an art. In the very basic and generic form, it consists in organizing the introduction of new concepts while allowing people to maintain existing assets working. In some cases, the new concepts introduced are disruptive, in the sense that they prevent the original ( Read more... )

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Yes, you’ve heard it right. I’ll exchange a legally unlocked iPhone 3G for a recent Android phone such as the Samsung Galaxy or the HTC Hero, and will pay the difference back! (street price minus 30% of devaluation for the used iPhone 3G).

I got an iPhone some time ago to learn the concepts introduced in ( Read more... )

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Are you? I’m not entirely sure I am, even though I think about this a lot.

If you’re of the tech-savvy kind, you’re certainly aware of the great capabilities that the new mobile phone generation is bringing: Internet connection, a quite decent browser, GPS, camera, etc. But, really.. did you stop to think ( Read more... )

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In my previous post I made an open statement which I’d like to clarify a bit further:

(…) when the rules don’t work for people, the rules should be changed, not the people.

This leaves a lot of room for personal interpretation of what was actually meant, and TIm Hoffman pointed that out nicely with the ( Read more... )