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9/10/2011 - Schmaltz
- Informal. Exaggerated sentimentalism, as in music or soap operas.
- fat or grease, especially of a chicken.
- this blog entry.
schmaltz [shmahlts, shmawlts] Noun
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8/9/2010 - Access Denied
Java creator James Gosling reminds developers we live in a world of "Borg wannabes". Paul Allen (Microsoft co-founder and Überlegen patent troll) lurches along, zombie-like, plumbing new depths to prove it.
I must be a slow study, as I finally have to admit that commercial interests will always pollute Richard Stallman's utopian ideals of freedom and openness - the same hacker ethic that brought me into the fold over 30 years ago.
Sadly, the swarming hordes of oily patent lawyers, their pointy-haired minions, camp followers and lobbyist greased votes-for-hire who can't create anything useful themselves have finally worn down my Roddenberry-esque optimism.
I'm done. I need to find other, less unlikely work.
Peace.
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12:34:56 7/8/2009 - Sayōnara Apple
Nope. I refuse to pay Apple US$99 every year for a new iPhone developer signing certificate. That is, pay C$8.50/month for the privilege of running my own code on my own iPod.
Needless to say, I won't be renewing my membership in the iPhone developer program. If anything, Apple should be paying me an annual retainer to write for their overdog platform.
Update: Thanks to Alex Whittemore's instructions for developing on jailbroken devices, I've ported my app to an 'obsolete' iPhone 3G. Now I understand why jailbreaking is so popular and important.
Next stop: Google's open source Android platform - a Linux based system using an Eclipse/Java IDE that doesn't suffer from Objective-C's gimpy garbage collection dogma or Cocoa's mind-bending event model.
Once my membership expires, an Apple Ayatollah will delete my app from the iTunes App Store. Thereafter, and in case the source code is useful to others looking for coding samples, it's available here.
All of my code here is Free Software and further placed in the public domain under a CC0 no copyright declaration.
If you found it useful or instructive, please consider making a charitable donation to the Free Software Foundation.