Twitter for Android: A closer look at Android’s evolving UI patterns
I’m mostly just bookmarking this here for future reference. Expect to see some neat Android apps from me someday in the future.
Tea Timer Application
So, yesterday I go to make a delicious cup of Silver Needle White Tea. I go have a look-see at Reddit while I wait for my tea to steep, click a few links, and BAM! Five or so minutes go by and when I check my tea, it’s slightly bitter. DAMNIT
However, I’m a man of action, so I decided to take things into my own hands and make a timer app. Then I went overboard and now I have this awesome tea timer application. Check it out, if it’s your sort of thing.
"Programming Noobs" or "They Grow Up So Fast"
- Fat: Is it sad i'm enjoying this?
- Mason-O: No, but I hate you
- Mason-O: Because it took like... 5 months for you to finally do it
- Fat: Well, yeah
- Fat: but now I want Tea.
- Fat: and Pizza
- Mason-O: Caffeine and junk food is a programmer's lifeblood.
- Mason-O: This is normal.
#!usr/bin/python
# My first Like, Python script!
yo just print like “hello world” bro
— Like, Python - You can finally write python the same way you speak it!
.NET/WPF for Windows, Cocoa for Mac OS X, Gtk+ for GNOME, etc. Using anything but modern GUI frameworks is insulting to the developer, and using anything but native GUI frameworks is insulting to the user.
— chucker23n, commenting on The question “If you were to develop a client-side GUI app today, what language/framework would you use?”
1983 - Bjarne Stroustrup bolts everything he’s ever heard of onto C to create C++. The resulting language is so complex that programs must be sent to the future to be compiled by the Skynet artificial intelligence. Build times suffer. Skynet’s motives for performing the service remain unclear but spokespeople from the future say “there is nothing to be concerned about, baby,” in an Austrian accented monotones. There is some speculation that Skynet is nothing more than a pretentious buffer overrun.
— James Iry’s blog post, A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages
Neat.
Playing with C# is just so fun. Here’s what I spent the last 2 hours doing.
Getting Some Work Done?
You may have noticed that I don’t post on here a lot. I have a bit of an ‘Internet addiction’ problem, where I tend to get on to “check Facebook real quick” and then look at a clock to see that 3 hours have passed. So, I decided that I could make a little program to automate editing my hosts file whenever I feel like getting some work done.
So, today I put the finishing touches on a program I call ‘Get Some Work Done!’. Maybe now I’ll be able to move onto building something cooler.
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