I am a developer too, and English is my second language (I am from Egypt, and Arabic is my first language). When I learned programming, it was in English using English text books and magazines,...etc, whether BASIC or COBOL (long time ago).
Once, after many years in development, I was supporting a place that got a software package developed in Morocco. French is the lingua technica there. So, the source code was totally unitelligible to all of us except one of the Moroccan developers who worked for the company developing it.
All the variable names and comments were in French, and did not mean anything to us, making the code very hard to follow.
With English being the language most used internationally for businesss and such, I imagine this is true outside of the Francophone countries (and perhaps Latin America too)?
If you don't like the user interface that the handset manufactuer cooked up and puked on your Android phone, just install ADW Launcher on it, and you get a functional as well as speedy.
I did that on my Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc to get rid of Sony's TimeScape.
The military are not elected, and have destabilized the country several time by staging coupes, executing elected prime ministers and such.
Protecting the country against something unpopular is always a pretense to dictatorship and corruption.
The solution to elected radicals in power is preparing for an alternative via the political process, NOT by supporting miltiary dictatorship against elected officials.
Shame on an American advocating the miltiary toppling an elected government, no matter how repulsive it is.
If the terrorists figure this out they can just up the chatter until we spend ourselves into bankruptcy and fall like Rome. Then the terrorists win.
Why should the terrorists bother to bankrupt the USA, when the US politicians are doing that to themselves better than any terrorist have dreamt it to be...
Pigeons are a delicacy in certain parts of the world.
If you ever visit Egypt's country side, you will find that it is dotted by tower like structures, which are actually nests for domestic pigeons. The chicks are "harvested" and eaten all over Egypt, before they fly and the muscles harden.
The same principle holds in Egypt: if you discover anything interesting while digging, you have to report it to the Department of Antiquities. They may take over the site and do a dig, or whatever they see fit.
This is why I know people, from Alexandria, who found Roman era amphorae while digging the foundation of their apartment building just take them home and never tell the authorities.
I myself have seen Roman earthenware come out on a government owned building when digging for a data center power cable. The managers just said keep quiet, otherwise it will delay our own project.
The stuff is not even sold or goes on the black market, it sits in storage at someone's balcony or dumped as rubbish.
The best product of Summer of Code is new contributors to open source projects.
An example from the Drupal community. The current maintainer for Drupal 8 Core, Angela Byron, was a student back in Summer of Code 2005, the very first year it was done.
Another example is the code for installing modules in Drupal 7 Core, which started as a Summer of Code project for Drupal 6.
There are other examples within this community of people who came and contributed and continued to contribute, or established their own consultancies, hence expanding the ecosystem.
Not every project goes to be a big thing, but the as a whole it is termendously useful.
Another benefit is that open source projects get some cash too from Google, in addition to cash going to the student.
Disclosure: I mentored for Summer of Code for several years. I got a T-shirt every year for the years I participated.
Been using Kubuntu on the desktop, and in all servers I managed, be they in house or for clients, since 2006. Never had a dependency problem, nor a daemon problem.
Climate: granted. Beaches: everywhere, just fresh water. Lookup Wasaga, Grand Bend and Sauble Beach for example. Multicultural food: everywhere, from Sushi to Vietnamese/Thai, to whatever. Nice population: I will dispute this one. The beach fights against the Lebanese is not something that happens around here. Wildlife: not much dangerous stuff here. Only rattlesnake that keeps to itself. Politics: equally messed up.
Of course, it plays to the sentiments of some about the revolutions of the Arab Spring are really a foreign conspiracy for chaos and wars, yadda yadda.
There is MariaDB which is data-compatible with MySQL, and has some nice additions (like microsecond performance data), and there is also Percona Server.
If Oracle messes up, like they did with OpenOffice, there will be another version that they cannot touch, like LibreOffice.
Firefox worked fine with that number of tabs as soon as disabled Firebug. Before that, it chewed up so much CPU and memory as Firebug tried to debug every request made by all those AJAX calls.
Oh, and I have NoScript too, and disable javascript and flash except for a few sites.
Access to the internet is not needed nor required.
I was getting this as early as 1991, right after I subscribed to the National Geographic and Scientific America, and was living in an oil rich country.
The scammers from Nigeria must have gotten the subscribers list and targeted likely countries.
What I got was plain letters by postal mail, very similar to the email scams today.
The mistake is trying to use mod_php with a heavy PHP application, such as a a complex Drupal site, without a reverse proxy such as Varnish or nginx.
One trick I have been using for a few years is using Apache as a threaded server, with MPM Worker, and FastCGI but with fcgid, not mod_fastcgi. Works exceptionally well. For static files, Apache is now lightweight and does not use much RAM.
I can confirm that ever since I switched to checking Twitter and Facebook (via TweetDeck) heavily on my Android phone (Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 then Arc), I have experienced wrist pain and numbness.
And yes, I spend a couple of hours daily, because I was following the news closely in a troubled part of the world.
Once I got those wrist cuffs that prevent the wrist joint from moving, the pain went away.
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Sony already makes an Android watch, the SmartWatch ...
But this will be Apple's ... Ooooh ... Shiny ...
I am a developer too, and English is my second language (I am from Egypt, and Arabic is my first language). When I learned programming, it was in English using English text books and magazines, ...etc, whether BASIC or COBOL (long time ago).
Once, after many years in development, I was supporting a place that got a software package developed in Morocco. French is the lingua technica there. So, the source code was totally unitelligible to all of us except one of the Moroccan developers who worked for the company developing it.
All the variable names and comments were in French, and did not mean anything to us, making the code very hard to follow.
With English being the language most used internationally for businesss and such, I imagine this is true outside of the Francophone countries (and perhaps Latin America too)?
Try the Sony Android phones.
I have the Xperia Arc, and its picture quality is amazing for a phone, or even a mid range point and shoot camera.
Despite the usual small lens and limited software from the camera application itself, the lens and the sensor are far superior to most phones.
About the only thing I miss is a proper optical zoom on it. If it had that, I would not be using my Canon SX20 IS camera.
If you don't like the user interface that the handset manufactuer cooked up and puked on your Android phone, just install ADW Launcher on it, and you get a functional as well as speedy.
I did that on my Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc to get rid of Sony's TimeScape.
I really wonder how you got modded up like that.
The military are not elected, and have destabilized the country several time by staging coupes, executing elected prime ministers and such.
Protecting the country against something unpopular is always a pretense to dictatorship and corruption.
The solution to elected radicals in power is preparing for an alternative via the political process, NOT by supporting miltiary dictatorship against elected officials.
Shame on an American advocating the miltiary toppling an elected government, no matter how repulsive it is.
Why should the terrorists bother to bankrupt the USA, when the US politicians are doing that to themselves better than any terrorist have dreamt it to be ...
Pigeons are a delicacy in certain parts of the world.
If you ever visit Egypt's country side, you will find that it is dotted by tower like structures, which are actually nests for domestic pigeons. The chicks are "harvested" and eaten all over Egypt, before they fly and the muscles harden.
The same principle holds in Egypt: if you discover anything interesting while digging, you have to report it to the Department of Antiquities. They may take over the site and do a dig, or whatever they see fit.
This is why I know people, from Alexandria, who found Roman era amphorae while digging the foundation of their apartment building just take them home and never tell the authorities.
I myself have seen Roman earthenware come out on a government owned building when digging for a data center power cable. The managers just said keep quiet, otherwise it will delay our own project.
The stuff is not even sold or goes on the black market, it sits in storage at someone's balcony or dumped as rubbish.
The best product of Summer of Code is new contributors to open source projects.
An example from the Drupal community. The current maintainer for Drupal 8 Core, Angela Byron, was a student back in Summer of Code 2005, the very first year it was done.
Another example is the code for installing modules in Drupal 7 Core, which started as a Summer of Code project for Drupal 6.
There are other examples within this community of people who came and contributed and continued to contribute, or established their own consultancies, hence expanding the ecosystem.
Not every project goes to be a big thing, but the as a whole it is termendously useful.
Another benefit is that open source projects get some cash too from Google, in addition to cash going to the student.
Disclosure: I mentored for Summer of Code for several years. I got a T-shirt every year for the years I participated.
Maybe it was breezy in 2005 even ...
Mod the parent up.
Been using Kubuntu on the desktop, and in all servers I managed, be they in house or for clients, since 2006. Never had a dependency problem, nor a daemon problem.
Sent from a Kubuntu 12.04 laptop ...
Herbivore with tusks? That is unheard of!
They definitely do not exist.
This is just more and more balkanization of the North American mobile market.
Why don't we see this "different network, different frequencies" problem elsewhere in Europe and Asia?
We don't have most of these here in Upper Canada.
But being stalked by a cougar is cool. If you survived to tell about it that is. Did you blog it somewhere?
Climate: granted.
Beaches: everywhere, just fresh water. Lookup Wasaga, Grand Bend and Sauble Beach for example.
Multicultural food: everywhere, from Sushi to Vietnamese/Thai, to whatever.
Nice population: I will dispute this one. The beach fights against the Lebanese is not something that happens around here.
Wildlife: not much dangerous stuff here. Only rattlesnake that keeps to itself.
Politics: equally messed up.
That was not his reply to the previous thread. Will wait to see what he says.
Why have you taken steps to immigrate to Australia, rather than Canada?
The largest Egyptian state owned newspaper, Al Ahram, published a spoof Kissinger quote as genuine.
Of course, it plays to the sentiments of some about the revolutions of the Arab Spring are really a foreign conspiracy for chaos and wars, yadda yadda.
They did not even apologize for it ...
If Putin was in the Middle East, he would be a hybrid of Libya's Gaddafi and Iraq's Saddam.
Oracle is not that big a of concern.
There is MariaDB which is data-compatible with MySQL, and has some nice additions (like microsecond performance data), and there is also Percona Server.
If Oracle messes up, like they did with OpenOffice, there will be another version that they cannot touch, like LibreOffice.
Last session I saved had 356 tabs in 5 windows.
Firefox worked fine with that number of tabs as soon as disabled Firebug. Before that, it chewed up so much CPU and memory as Firebug tried to debug every request made by all those AJAX calls.
Oh, and I have NoScript too, and disable javascript and flash except for a few sites.
Access to the internet is not needed nor required.
I was getting this as early as 1991, right after I subscribed to the National Geographic and Scientific America, and was living in an oil rich country.
The scammers from Nigeria must have gotten the subscribers list and targeted likely countries.
What I got was plain letters by postal mail, very similar to the email scams today.
The internet just made it easier ...
The mistake is trying to use mod_php with a heavy PHP application, such as a a complex Drupal site, without a reverse proxy such as Varnish or nginx.
One trick I have been using for a few years is using Apache as a threaded server, with MPM Worker, and FastCGI but with fcgid, not mod_fastcgi. Works exceptionally well. For static files, Apache is now lightweight and does not use much RAM.
For details, see my article on Apache MPM Worker with fcgid.
I can confirm that ever since I switched to checking Twitter and Facebook (via TweetDeck) heavily on my Android phone (Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 then Arc), I have experienced wrist pain and numbness.
And yes, I spend a couple of hours daily, because I was following the news closely in a troubled part of the world.
Once I got those wrist cuffs that prevent the wrist joint from moving, the pain went away.
There is a project that provides scripting language capabilities for Android.
This means Python, Lua, Ruby, Perl and more ...
See sl4a for more details.