Archive for October, 2009
Saturday, October 31st, 2009
Ubuntu's 9.10 Karmic Koala release dropped yesterday, and I dove right in, downloaded it (via BitTorrent), and installed it on my aging Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop.
I didn't do an upgrade, I reformatted my primary partition, and installed it clean. I keep my /home directory on a separate partition precisely so ...
Posted in Linux, Ubuntu | 10 Comments »
Sunday, October 4th, 2009
My employer, Chariot Solutions, held an in-house, week-long iPhone development course, taught by the folks at Big Nerd Ranch.
The course was great, we all learned a lot, and several of our folks are working on some apps, including one that they announced recently at JBoss World.
80% or more of our ...
Posted in Chariot, Linux, Ubuntu, iPhone | 13 Comments »
Sunday, October 4th, 2009
CNN released it's new iPhone app with a big splash last week.
It's a paid app - $1.99 at the App Store. The rub is, it apparently has in-application advertising too.
Apparently quite a number of people are just fine with this, but I find it pretty appalling. You can either charge ...
Posted in iPhone | No Comments »