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The third party Android development I’ve been doing is winding down, so I’ll be able to get back to the apps soon. I’m really glad I’ve spent some time outside the Apple reality distortion field. Learning Eclipse, Google’s “java”, and the Android APIs has been a breath of fresh air and a good mental workout! The freedom and control over everything you get on Android is definitely invigorating, and the available hardware is so much more advanced, with true multitasking and what Apple lauds as the Notification Center in already in place for years. I’ll have more to say on that as my iPhone/Mac portfolio is refreshed and ported to Android.

Mercury set to hit 89 here in Oakland today, records breaking all over the place!

I spent Friday at an Oracle technology briefing at their campus in Redwood Shores. These events are a great way to keep up with the roadmap. Oracle rarely blunders with their acquisitions, and the acquisition of Sun has lent to a slew of new synergies with actual meaning for the rest of us. Java is a forest of versions and acronyms, and Friday was an opportunity to have it all explained somewhat.

You heard it here first, I predict the Java App Store will re-emerge, with Oracle hosting, and billions of devices will connect to it. One outcome of the Google lawsuit is that it will end up on all Android phones; speculation is the suit won’t make it to the Supreme Court. The food as always was excellent, full breakfast, great lunch and afternoon tea. As many times as I go, I never grow weary reporting or photographing that part of it. This wasn’t as sumptuous as some of the C-level press events at the Sofitel in Palo Alto, but still, Oracle really knows how to treat its developers and customers. The grilled tri-tip alone was worth the trip!

Got a different view of the PhotoUpLink title page antenna, and the video turned out OK! The Droid X owners I’ve asked about the camera have panned it. I’m just amazed that a phone has an 8 megapixel camera, shoots HD, and has a flash!

I’ve started to add location and immediacy as photo quality determinants. Framing, lighting, resolution etc are all great but the fact that I can snap a photo here and NOW and send it to my wife or a pal, with a timestamp and a GPS tag is what matters to me the most these days. The rest of the set is from cruising around the Near East Bay with a friend late last night listening to “Friday” – the phone speakers really magnified and enhanced the auto-tuned vocals to poetic heights.

“(it) will create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. The specific which you have discovered is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence, and you give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of truth; they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality.”

In the 90′s I had the incredible good fortune to live in Manhattan and write video games for a living. I had a twenty foot, 200 hp ski boat I used to blast around the island and up the Hudson with my colleagues and my girlfriend at the time. Every morning out of my Upper West Side sublet I beheld the World Trade Center and comfortably thought “I’ve made it!” Good times, formative years. Such an enormous weight lifted now. In the words of Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia – he’s gone.

The prescient, insightful staff at AGL have used some of my antenna photos again. Excellent!

All quiet on the western front today…

Yesterday was a little more frenetic, like a scene out of “The Social Network” Marin rowing took on Oakland in the contentious “Battle of the Bay” – pics from yesterday’s races are here.

From the farthest flung corners of the uplink.to network…

The ProteinScope Network Blog (temporary link)
PhotoUpLink on Facebook
VideoUpLink on Facebook
ProteinScope on Facebook

Torus HD for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch on Facebook

Compleat press release archive at prMac!

mmorrisdev on Flickr
mmorrisdev on Linkedin

Lets see how it goes. Turns out I still need Xcode 3 for OpenSSL on 10.5, but I might be able to work around that if the benefits of moving everything to Xcode 4 are big enough for all the Mac products too. Here are some illustrations of the new IDE. Very Visual Studio like! I have yet to install my hard-earned (got it for being in a Microsoft focus group!) copy of Visual Studio 2010, thats next when I return to the Windows / Mobile versions of the catalog!