Microsoft and Apple seem to be willing to give implicit nods to one another’s products in their advertising. Apple’s MobileMe service, whose launch coincided with the iPhone 3G, billed itself on the Apple website as “Exchange for the rest of us,” referring to Microsoft’s Exchange Server. It seems to have recently cleansed its marketing copy … [Read more…]
My good friend and collaborator, Shawn Cornally, recently asked for my opinion on what language to use to teach programming. He teaches science & math at Solon High School in eastern Iowa. I’ll preface these comments by saying that choice of language is probably not as important as other things, like competence and enthusiasm of … [Read more…]
Uniform Resource Locators, commonly known as URLs are the address system for finding things on the internet. Unfortunately, they’re often not very humane. Can you imagine having to type this lovely example into your browser (much less trying to remember it!) http://scitation.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=PRLTAO000100000020200502000001&idtype=cvips&gifs=yes Yikes! (This, by the way, is the URL of our new physics paper) … [Read more…]
Having used the iPhone at the University of Oxford since November, my experience has been generally good, but there are a mishmash of departments, colleges, and the central university computing service (OUCS) to deal with. Now, with the iPhone 2.0 software update, I finally feel like I can take advantage of all the services that … [Read more…]
Just a quick post to share some excitement. After a bit of a struggle, I pulled down and installed the iPhone 2.0 software last night and added some apps. There are some good ones, which I’m sure you’ll hear described all over the intertoobs if you’re so inclined. My favorite so far is called Midomi. … [Read more…]