Posts tagged: PROGRAMMING

From a post at Rogue Amoeba:

• Allow applications to be installed at the user’s discretion, not Apple’s
• Allow applications to run in background on iPhone
• Allow access to root user on iPhone
• A MediaPicker API for accessing the iPod music files is needed
• Add option to allow iPhone applications to access entire filesystem
• Allow iPhone applications to access the host computer when docking
• Permit Voice over IP on the cellular network
• Allow iPhone applications to access the docking port

Funny, it reads more like a list of demands! I’m +1 on it all though.

I just wanted to post a quick note for anyone who is in my region and interested in functional programming that the Western Mass. Developers Group is hosting a presentation by Rich Hickey, creator of the Clojure language, on March 20th.

This event was put in motion by Lou Franco, who is doing a “20 days of Clojure” series on his blog in the days running up to the event. Chas Emerick has arranged the meeting space. See the event listing for more information.

I just came across this list in an old “should blog about this someday” file. It’s from a 1983 interview of legendary racing motorcycle tuner Rob Muzzy, speaking to legendary motorcycle journalist Kevin Cameron. It’s about how to be smart about going fast.

I don’t do a lot of work that’s extremely performance-critical, but most of what Muzzy says rings true for me when applied to software systems. The engineering mindset looks remarkably similar across disciplines.

My first week with the iPt has been a thorough validation of my decision to jump ship from the Palm platform. The things this new device doesn’t do are still a problem, but the things it does do it does incredibly well. I won’t gush over those because they’ve all been thoroughly gushed over. But anybody who thinks the success of the iPhone/iPt platform is primarily based on superficial factors of appearance or brand image likely hasn’t used one for more than two minutes.

Most readers are probably familiar with the fact that companies or organizations sometimes post “bounties” for open source products, or features, that they would like to see developed. Implement the thing to their satisfaction, you get the bounty – and the community gets the code. Sweet.

A while back I started gathering references to these things, thinking I’d start a site that listed them, made connections between coders and sponsors, etc.