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I'm Michael Koby, and I love technology. I'm also a programmer, currently doing Ruby on Rails development for a small Houston startup. Here I talk about technology, programming, politics, movies, music, and anything else I feel I need to talk about. If you would like to know more, you can check out the About page.Popular Series
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Google's Chrome Broswer on Linux
The past few weeks I’ve been making a real effort to use Google’s Chrome broswer on all my computers. On my work laptop, which runs Windows, it has been a mostly pleasent experience. The browser is fast, responsive, and it seems to handle most sites that I visit quite well. I decided to install the Chrome on my home PC, which runs Linux (Ubuntu 9.04). The experience there has not been so great. Continue reading
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Google’s Chrome Broswer on Linux
The past few weeks I’ve been making a real effort to use Google’s Chrome broswer on all my computers. On my work laptop, which runs Windows, it has been a mostly pleasent experience. The browser is fast, responsive, and it seems to handle most sites that I visit quite well. I decided to install the Chrome on my home PC, which runs Linux (Ubuntu 9.04). The experience there has not been so great. Continue reading
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List of freely available programming books – Stack Overflow (tags: programming books free reference)
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Model View Presenter Part I – Building it from Scratch (tags: programming development .net designpatterns mvp)
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Could the iPhone Google Voice Fiasco Help Android?
The issue here is that (currently) the iPhone is pretty much the most popular phone in the world, making it a very hot platform to develop for. Getting an application into the iPhone App Store means millions of potential customers. While Android currently doesn’t have the same numbers, it does have the possibility to have better numbers if a few high profile devices with some powerful hardware. Keep in mind also, that Motorola has latched on to Android with a furocious passion and they move a lot of handsets. Android has tremendous potential to take off, though it might take another year or two before it really becomes a force to be reckoned with. Continue reading
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Where Are My Windows Virtual Desktops?
I was just thinking about the fact that most window managers on Linux have had virtual desktops for as long as I can remember. Apple released something similar in a recent OSX version. Most cell phones have multiple “screens” (see Android and iPhone) for organizing your apps and views. Heck, even some recent Nokia smartphones have a “work” and “home” screens. But why on earth has Microsoft not implemented similar functionality into Windows? We’re coming up on the release of Windows 7 and we are still without features other operating systems have had for well over a decade. Microsoft, where are my virtual desktops on Windows? Continue reading →