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Columbus, OH | Remote or On-site | Full Time Stack: - (Current) Ruby, Ansible, Puppet, JunOS, NETCONF, SLAX, Linux - (Previously) Java, C#, Symbian/C++ Resume: https://www.linkedin…

POPFile has an IMAP module that makes something like this pretty easy to set up. You just need to connect POPFile your GMail account, set up some buckets for POPFile, and then tell…

This may not be a perfectly generalized solution, but is it possible to structure your system such that when upgrading from version i to version i+1, version i of your app is compa…

When your company has no revenue, the "obvious" answer is to sell as hard as you can until your cashflow positive. But it's not going to help unless the product actually works. Thi…

It'd be interesting to see how far we could take a loosely coupled network for Wordpress installs towards this goal. How actually to make that work is something I've been pondering…

.NET wasn't bad. It was Vista, Visual Studio, that busted Dell, and a mountain of legacy code that made my experience a nightmare.

Where do you find the historical data and the data feeds to start building such a system though?

Is there any meatier information on this topic?

StephenColbertium

I'm definitely having second thoughts. I'm probably not going to upgrade until my contract expires next summer, but when I do, I'll have options. A Palm Pre or one of the forthcomi…

This is the only method that's worked for me: 1. Comb the job boards for interesting looking positions. Don't worry about being qualified yet. 2. Find the name and location of the …

Is this web van 2.0?

Who doesn't want a great big, GPS enabled, "FEED ME" button?

I thought the current rationale for not allowing cell phones and other wireless devices on planes was the potential for interfering with ground based communications. I didn't think…

Does this mean that the enterprise is back in style again?

C++ with just a couple added limitations. Exceptions and static data are only now (in v9) starting to be supported. Assume that you'll use Symbian's app frameworks exclusively and …

I'd look at it but the domain makes me think its NSFW.

FWIW Symbian 9 allows static data in UI processes, uses a standard ARM ABI, and has a homebrew non-unixy security model called "Platform Security". I'm not saying it's a great plat…

In theory J2ME has wide distribution, but in reality, the platform is highly fragmented. I agree that the platform is pretty tightly locked down, and both of these issues make the …

This is the only Android book I'm aware of. I haven't read it though so I can vouch for it's quality. http://pragprog.com/titles/eband/hello-android The only supported language on …

This post has singlehandedly killed my productivity for the entire day.

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This is more political than I'd like to see here, but I guess you could relate this concept to product design. If you have an idea of what's "best" for your users, you could arrang…

Also, NewLC.com is a big community around Symbian development. They're a pretty good resource for tutorials and questions.