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Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create.
Einstein
Around Earth..
I love traveling! In fact, that’s what helps me know more and experience new things.
I’ll try to keep this list updated, for me. I’ll add dates when I’ll have some time to look for them, but for now years will do! :)
- Greece: Atens, Parelia Katerini, Salonic, somewhere – 2005
- USA: NY, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, California, somewhere – 2006
- Germany: Saarbrücken – 2006
- France: Paris – 6 January 2007
- Italy: Rome, Venice, Padova – 2007
- Spain: Madrid, somewhere – 2007
- Bulgaria: somewhere – 2008
- Turkey: somewhere – 2008
- Netherlands: Amsterdam, Hague, Rotterdam – 2009
- Belgium: Antwerp, somewhere – 2010
- United Kingdom: London – 2010
My memory doesn’t help me at this hour, so I’ll replace the word somewhere with actual cities.. soon.
The skeleton of mobile apps
This is going to be a short post, just to share something I learned while researching on all mobile platforms. The ones that matter are obviously Apple, Google and Microsoft.
Apple
Apple is using Xcode, and they have the best tools and the best devices out there. The programming language is Objective C. There are some alternative tools out there, such as Titanium, but I wouldn’t spend time into looking more in depth, as Apple can always exclude these guys, as they did with Flash.
You can only use a MAC for developing for the iPhone and the iPad.
Microsoft
They use .Net and Silverlight. You can write the code in C#. You can only use a PC.
For Android, Google is using Eclipse and a plugin. The language is Java. They are the most open, if I may say so. The development can be done on both platforms – MAC and PC.
All the platforms have an SDK which you need to download. It’s free. In order to publish the apps you’ll need to join a Developer Program (not free). If you do some research, you will get plenty of information on each platform, so I’ll leave it here.
iOS and Android
It’s a good time to be a developer (again). The last years are clearly showing that a new revolution is coming, and that is the mobile revolution. And when I say mobile, I’m referring to the internet connected devices, that are not plugged. So it’s not only phones, but also tablets, kiosk devices, and so forth.
We’re slowly planning on getting into this wagon here at Vuzum, but out of the many OSes, we’ll only focus on the top two (based on this poll, and instinct). It’s something I personally been interested in since the iPhone’s SDK was announced, and hopefully I’ll have enough time (at night) to learn.
I’ll keep you posted as time goes by. I’m happy enough I waited though, as there’s so much resources on the web today, compared to only a year ago!