http://www.codedifferent.com mobile | mac | business | development blog Wed, 22 Oct 2008 06:53:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Jason Chen, android-Developer-Advocate at Google, just blogged the good news: One day before the first T-Mobile-G1 android-smartphones ship in the US, the Open Handset Alliance released the sourcecode of the android operating system as open source. Quite logical and necessary step ... but don't under estimate this: This step may ... http://www.codedifferent.com/2008/10/22/open-handset-alliance-releases-mobile-os-android-as-open-source/ Joshua from Engadget.com just published a first review of the Google-Phone T-Mobile G1 just before the official roll-out of the Android-cellphone in the US. He tested the hard- and software - so this is a must for all those of you, who want to know more about the new ... http://www.codedifferent.com/2008/10/16/first-review-of-the-brand-new-t-mobile-g1-at-engadget/ Don't expect too much ... the online emulator gives just a first impression of the look-and-feel of the first Android-smartphone. The mobile, manufactured by HTC and equipped with the Android-OS created by Google and the Open Handset Alliance, will enter the US market in the end of this month. It's fun ... http://www.codedifferent.com/2008/10/06/android-t-mobile-google-g1-online-emulator/ A black day for Microsoft and Windows Mobile ... the Open Mobile Alliance did a great job in launching T-Mobile G1. For 3 years T-Mobile, Google and HTC worked on bringing the first handest of the Open Mobile Alliance to the market. The features: Touchscreen Full slide out keyboard Multithreading Compass-Mode Android Market for new applications No ... http://www.codedifferent.com/2008/09/23/t-mobile-g1-the-first-android-mobile-von-google-and-htc-at-the-end-of-2008-in-the-us-and-europe/ Today at 10:30 ETC (16:30 MEZ) we'll be enlightened: At that time the T-Mobile press conference begins in New York. The first Android mobile phone should be announced there. Even here at the Google Developer Day in Munich there is nothing specific new and interesting about the Android roadmap - ... http://www.codedifferent.com/2008/09/23/t-mobile-press-conference-in-new-york-first-android-powered-handset/ The development team of popular open-source blog-software Wordpress just released the security update 2.6.2. It is highly recommended to install the update to eliminate some security issues within the Wordpress installation - especially for blogs with open registration. The update fixes a security issue caused by the weak implementation of the php function ... http://www.codedifferent.com/2008/09/09/security-update-wordpress-262-released-today-to-fix-the-php-mt_rand-security-issue/ Pratik Naik from the Rails core team just published the announcement for a new Ruby on Rails hackfest: The person with the most patches merged into the core at the end of the month wins. In August, O'Reilly will handout a free pass to the RailsConf Europe. Keep on coding! ... http://www.codedifferent.com/2008/08/06/rails-hackfest-awards-the-winner-with-a-free-pass-to-railsconf-europe/ From Sept. 2nd to Sept. 4th 2008 the Ruby on Rails community will meet at the RailsConf Europe. It's the third RailsConf in Europe and it will located in Berlin/Germany again. Last year, more than 800 Rails enthusiasts joined the conference - a great developer community event ... http://www.codedifferent.com/2008/08/06/speaking-at-the-railsconf-europe-in-september-about-design-on-rails-for-usability/ The berlin Ruby User Group put their shoulders to the wheel for the Ruby-on-Rails-community: At the Kalkscheune, nearby the conference location of the RailsConf Europe 2008 they invite all Ruby-on-Rails-freaks to a socializing and networking event. Last year it was a great and fun event - you'll finde some pictures at Flickr. ... http://www.codedifferent.com/2008/07/30/bratwurst-on-rails-in-berlin-sep-1st-2008-just-before-railsconf-europe/ Sometimes you are embarrassed to conntect Mac OS X Leopard with a Windows XP printserver. It should work the Mac plug-and-play way ... but it isn't. So here is the howto, so you don't need to trouble your head about it. Context: In the first corner: A Mac OS X Leopard (10.5.3) ... http://www.codedifferent.com/2008/06/28/how-to-connect-from-mac-os-x-leopard-to-a-shared-printe-via-a-windows-xp-printserver/