Monthly Archives: May 2010

Android Dalvik VM performance is a threat to the iPhone

Posted on May 26, 2010 by Sam Pullara

One of the peculiarities of Apple is that they have set themselves down a path where every Apple developer needs to learn Objective-C (and C/C++) to build applications for their platform.  The biggest characteristic of Objective-C vs Java is dynamic … Continue reading →

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Off-loading real work to YQL instead of using your server

Posted on May 22, 2010 by Sam Pullara

Just saw a cool blogpost about summing up all your subscribers on RSS, Facebook and Twitter. The only issue is that it requires PHP to work. I decided to quickly rewrite it as a YQL Execute table instead. So rather … Continue reading →

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Maven artifacts need to be more discoverable

Posted on May 16, 2010 by Sam Pullara

The laundry list of repositories that are filling the POM in Maven projects has to go. The ideal of having a central store of all artifacts is clearly dead and we have to move on. My proposal is two fold. … Continue reading →

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How Facebook could open the Open Graph APIs

Posted on May 12, 2010 by Sam Pullara

I was pondering how Facebook could really answer it’s critics in a profound way that would really up-level the social fabric of the internet while also satisfying those that want ultimate control over their data. Continue reading →

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The ideal web application templating system

Posted on May 3, 2010 by Sam Pullara

When a designer and a developer work together to create an HTML web application one of the biggest issues is how you translate their vision into code in a way that allows for iteration and flexibility when those designs change. Continue reading →

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