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It’s a big week for Android. Google finally released a new version of the Android SDK that is reported to be close to what developers can expect from the final 1.0 release later this year. Just after upgrading to 0.9, our own application busted just as the release notes warned it might. Our application is still fairly small so porting to 0.9 was trivial. It’s a small price to pay for what we get with Android 0.9 SDK.
It’s back to school time, and frazzled parents are busy with their shopping checklists: New backpack with a zillion pockets— check; new trendy shoes – check; fancy scientific calculator— check; and the must-have for 2008: iPod enabled jacket with five-function keypad controller discretely attached to your MP3 player—check!
ADO.NET Data Services (better known by its Project code name “Astoria”) was released with SP1 for .NET. The idea behind ADO .NET is that it exposes data, represented as Entity Data Model (EDM) objects, via web services accessed over HTTP. But is exposing the data this way really a good idea? I tend to agree with Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz, and think that this is a horrible design idea.
The class of 2012 appears to be the largest class of students to hit the college scene. This fall, they will be making their presence known nationwide at 13.6 million students strong. Estimates show that these four-year college students will spend around $4,000 on books throughout their college career. But now, a new eBook service from CafeScribe claims to be a new, easier, greener and less expensive service with which to buy textbooks.
Here’s a recent quote from Allen Adamson’s blog (author of BrandSimple and the soon-to-be-released BrandDigital):
“The first step in any good brand strategy, the first step to becoming a successful brand, is to get significant and useful insight about your customers. What, as a brand, can you offer that is relevant to them and is different from what they already experience?...In the brand world, understanding what the people want and delivering it better than the next guy is the real heart of gold.”