Running Android emulator in Eclipse
As I have been developing Android apps in using the Eclipse + Android development environment on Windows, I noticed the debugger would sometimes not connect to the emulator device. To address this problem,
Pains in web development
On Saturday July 21st I had a nice conversation with Caleb Clausen about web applications. HTML and the web was originally designed for document delivery, not interactive applications that we are using
Tim Lee of Sequoia Capital: Future of smartphone businesses
Recently Tim Lee of Sequoia Capital, a venture capitalist fund, spoke with developers at Dophin Browser’s San Francisco location about the future of smartphone companies. The current generation
Android environment setup
I have learned several things when setting up a development environment for Android on Windows. First and foremost, long path names and Windows access control may introduce issues for Java, Eclipse,
Twisted: an event-driven server for Python
[Edited August 24, 2012]
I attended an introduction to Twister, a Python asynchronous engine, on July 13, 2012, at Rackspace’s new office. This asynchronous engine is a modular library that
Web technologies stack
| server side scripting | Asynchronous server | web framework | use cases | code in web browser | database | client side scripting | |
| Python | rpy | Twisted | Django | server, numerical, scripts,middle | |||
| PHP | php | middle | MySQL | ||||
| JavaScript | node.js | Connect/Express | client, server, Flash | MVC: backbone,DOM: jQuery,helper: underscore | MongoDB | Browser JavaScript | |
| Ruby | erb | EventMachine | Rails | server, middle | sqlite3, Postgres | ||
| NET | aspx | Windows server, middle | Silverlight | MS SQL Server | |||
| Java | jsp | Play 2.0 | server, client, middle | Java applets |
Games: current state of the art
On Wednesday, June 13th, 2012, I attended the meetup of the Silicon Valley’s IGDA (International Game Developers Association) at San Francisco’s Autodesk
Explosion of functional programming: part 2
[Edited August 24, 2012: Corrected procedural language example. Thanks to Bill Nye for identifying a mistake in the previous version]
Functional programming languages are gaining significant traction
Firefox OS / Boot to Gecko: a phone OS written in a web browser
[Update] Announced July 2nd, Boot to Gecko is now Firefox OS.
On June 26th, 2012 I attended the HTML 5 meetup in Microsoft’s local sale office. This HTML 5 meetup invited Rob Hawkes and Chris Heilman
Creating HTML 5 mobile applications
On Thursday June 21st I attended the PhoneGap meetup at Adobe’s office, which was the old site of Macromedia. In this PhoneGap meeting Marcos Lara presented his Audiovroom project. He introduced