15: iSad
17 September 2012
Chris and Mike take a look at joining an open source project, the formerly brown Ubuntu as a developer platform. Dell is getting ready to launch Sputnik, but should you jump on board or take a big old bite of a Macintosh? Plus should the release of the iPhone 5 and the Lumia 920 turn developer heads?
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- Jay writes in to report that I have swayed him on his views on piracy in 20,000 Leagues Under Java.
- About Windows Phone 8
- A few anonymous writers write in with tales of ‘Imposter’s Syndrome’
- A number of listeners ask: ‘why don’t you get a Fire and root it?’
- David writes in to let us know that he went with CouchDB and is happy with it!
This Week’s Dev World Hoopla
- Github CRASHED!!!
- Steam Greenlight
- iPhone UUID Apocalypse — just another reason to use paid apps
- The iPhone 5 release — le bore
- Amazon Enters the Maps Game
- Google says ‘NO’ to Aliyun and here’s why
My Week Working in Ubuntu As a Dev Box
- The death of the air…
- The Sputnik developer experience
- My dev stack on Ubuntu
- Why Ubuntu over Mac?
The Open-Source Inductee’s Oath
- Geary
- Ok, how do I volunteer for open-source?
Vala — A Hidden Gem
- Syntax similar to C#
- Compiles down to C, then compiles with the system’s native compiler (ie gcc)
- Can be freely mixed with C