Quite a lot has changed since my last post on these pages! Google’s Android has matured considerably, with Android 6.0 Marshmallow ready to burst through the gate on the Nexus 5X and 6P. Apple’s iOS continues to evolve in version 9, and with the release of new, larger, faster, iPhones, […]
Development
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The last few months I’ve been working almost exclusively on an Android app which has afforded me the opportunity to see some of the differences between developing for Android versus developing for iOS. I’m not going to provide a laundry list of differences here, only general impressions. Developing for Android […]
Apache Hadoop reached a major milestone yesterday in the life cycle of any kind of software, its 1.0 release. While Hadoop has already rocketed to the top of the charts in the world of Big Data counting the likes of Yahoo, Facebook, and LinkedIn among its contributors and customers, it […]