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Steve Jobs bans all apps from iPhone (or thereabouts)
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| You could argue that the new Jobsian SDK bars
| developers from writing any application for
| the iPhone - unless they possess some sort of
| savant-like ability to think solely in
| Objective C.
|
| The much-discussed software development kit
| for the upcoming iPhone OS 4.0 says that
| native applications must be "originally
| written" in Objective C, C, or C++, forbidding
| developers from using any sort of "translation
| or compatibility layer." If you take this
| legalese to its logical extreme, it rules out
| just about anything you can think of.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/16/does_apple_code_translation_ban_everthing/
On being a minority
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| After the whole Apple 3.3.1 âCanât develop with
| non-approved toolchainsâ debacle a lot of people
| set up a Google Docs spreadsheet to list the
| tons of amazing apps that would be impacted by
| this rule change.
|
| [...]
|
| The numbers are even less impressive if you
| wished to focus on a single toolchain of
| interest, like say â oh I donât know â
| MonoTouch, which can boast almost a whole dozen
| entries on the spreadsheet.
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http://www.the-source.com/2010/04/on-being-a-minority/
Recent:
Switching from C# to Java
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| In 2008 RedHat acquired Qumranet, a startup
| whose focus was Virtualization. Among other
| products Qumranet developed a management
| application for Virtualization.
|
| The management application was written in
| C# and one of the first tasks we got was to
| make the management application cross
| platform, well this was expected
| considering the fact that the acquisition
| was done by RedHat...
|
| We started exploring the web looking for
| ideas how to approach this task. At the
| beginning things did not look promising
| most of the references we found for porting
| projects from one technology to another
| were about complete failures, the only
| obvious suggestion that we saw all over was
| not to change technology and architecture
| at the same time.
|
| [...]
|
| In addition to the ongoing effort with
| Tangible we had to dumb down the C# code.
| For example we had to remove the usage of
| the Linq library in the C# side since it is
| not converted to Java properly.
| And in the same time we wrote some "sed"
| scripts to manipulate the Java output and
| fix some errors like packaging, adding
| import statements at the beginning of the
| class or adding a static data member
| (logger) in each class.
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http://lpeer.blogspot.com/2010/04/switching-from-c-to-java.html
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