Archive for October, 2009

Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala on Dell Inspiron 6000

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 ...

iPhone app development with Linux

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 ...

Why I Won’t Be Downloading The CNN iPhone App

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 ...