Coming from a Flash Developer background I have had no experience with mobile application development. From the time I saw the first phone to run Android, the G1, I have been itching to get into Android development. So when I was recently given the go-ahead to take this journey into the Android world, plus a shiny new Android phone 
, I was both excited and nervous
Tag » linux
28 Sep 2009
17 Dec 2008
An interesting website to visit from time to time is MarketShare. There you can find market share statistics on a number of technologies, such as browsers, operating systems, search platforms, and the like. As a committed Linux user, I’m always interested to note the progress (or lack thereof) of Linux’s market penetration, and visited recently to see if there had been any. The answer, sadly, is not really.
I love Linux. Really, I do. As an operating system it’s compact, powerful, and secure. As a principle it’s free and community oriented. Its position in the server market, particularly in the industry I find myself in, the Web, is the de facto standard. Mature distributions (distros) such as Fedora, Debian and Ubuntu have made installation and configuration a breeze, and certainly simpler than in the Windows domain that I inhabited until a year or so ago.
