Yo dawg, I herd you like slashdotting, so I put a link in your slashdot so you can be slashdotted while you slashdot.

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Because of http://xkcd.com/927/
(And I agree, phonegap has this covered!)

http://hackaday.com/2009/03/03/distributed-computing-in-javascript/ - nothing new under the sun! However, to all those who say "it would be way too slow in JavaScript", I refer you to the entire OS in browser (previously on slashdot) http://bellard.org/jslinux/

Totally! And even though I knew that, it *still* took me a moment to adapt. Old habits die hard!

The storage was the biggest mind-bending moment for getting going with the CR-48. I unwrapped it, wondered "how much storage does it have" and then a moment later realized that my thinking had become very un-dude. It doesn't matter how much storage it has!

MySQL 5's Fulltext index with the "natural language search" option might do everything you need with almost no overhead. That, plus PHP's PDO to connect to the database, and I think you might be done. How much data are we talking, anyhow? 10,000 magazine articles or less?

Or put another way, you are 10 times more likely to get Earth-smacked by this big rock than you are to win the lottery. (I never did get why people play the lottery)

Recent blog post on the ins and outs of what has recently been enabled in the latest iPhone browser. Summary: close, but no cigar yet - until photo upload is supported, no-go. And of course, the app store handles the payment!

So if a CAPTCHA is "identify which of these previous posts are spam?" before you can post... :)

Any of the "School of Information" (I personally went to the Berkeley iSchool) will do you well, giving you a much greater breadth of real world skills to talk about in an interview. Bonus points if they have a program that gets you more time working with the business school.