Offset Bad Code, With Bad Code Offsets 279
An anonymous reader writes "Two weeks ago, The Daily WTF's Alex Papadimoulis announced Bad Code Offsets, a join venture between many big names in the software development community (including StackOverflow's Jeff Atwood and Jon Skeet and SourceGear's Eric Sink). The premise is that you can offset bad code by purchasing Bad Code Offsets (much in the same way a carbon-footprint is offset). The profits are donated to Free Software projects which work to eliminate bad code, such as the Apache Foundation and FreeBSD. The first cheques were sent out earlier today." Hopefully, they work better than carbon offsets, actually.
Comment Macgyver (Score 1) 799
If you're looking for the ultimate science hero, I don't think you can go past Richard Dean Anderson, aka. Macgyver
Comment Ease of getting apps onto phone (Score 1) 344
The most important point for developing is how easy it is to get you applications onto the phone.
iPhone requires a mac to develop your apps on (which you probably already know).
Some MIDP phones can install via a cable connection, but most dont. Also, you will most likely need to digitally sign your application to even get it on the phone.
The easiest phones I've worked with are DoJa phones (DoCoMo Java by NTT - it's similar to MIDP). Once you write a DoJa app you simply uploaded it to any web site and it can be downloaded to any phone - without signing or the requirement to be certified. There are quite a few overseas DoJa models, but I don't think they are that popular (I work with the Japanese ones).
I run a small site about developing for mobiles - most of the content is DoJa. You can find it at http:\\mobiledevlab.com
Good luck!
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