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Google Nexus One given to Engadget

YouTube >> The Go Programming Language

A video that I need to watch myself (I just managed to watch 25% of it), but I thought was good to post it here: just to remind how good it is to think “out of the box”. Even in Programming Languages.

Presenter: Rob Pike
Presented on: 30th Oct 2009

Go is a new experimental systems programming language intended to make software development fast. Our goal is that a major Google binary should be buildable in a few seconds on a single machine. The language is concurrent, garbage-collected, and requires explicit declaration of dependencies. Simple syntax and a clean type system support a number of programming styles.

For more on Go including FAQs, source code, libraries, and tutorials, please see:http://golang.org

At the Google I/O 2009

Google I/O 2009Just a quick one.
First day of the Google I/O 2009 in San Francisco (CA).
Apart from a lot of informative and interesting topics and breakout sessions (I mainly focused on App Engine and Android), I came back at home full of:

  • Stickers
  • T-shirt
  • Google Chrome comic paperback version
  • A brand new “Google I/O device”, that is a black HTC Magic sim and firmware unlocked for developers + Android Market with Paid Apps support + Amazon Mp3 store +…!!!. How much? For FREE, of course!!!

Thanks Google for all the amazing stuff, presentation, technologies, gifts… and food! ;)

Android Dev Phone 1: Official Updates

For the once of you that tried “home made ways” to update their ADP1, like my previously published how-to, this news can be interesting.

Google and HTC finally managed to push-out an official page on the HTC site, to explain step-by-step how to update firmware and baseband of the device.

I just did it, having a very pleasant and straightforward experience.
The phone seems to be way more stable, bug-free and the battery lasts for more then 50 seconds ;)

Enjoy!

Chrome Experiments

WOW!
I mean… WOW!
Look at what people are doing using the power of HTML5 + a very fast Javascript Engine!

Those experiments are collected here: Chrome Experiments (note the subtitle: “Not your mother’s JavaScript” – LOL).

Bear in mind: this is not only because of Chrome itself. This is the power of HTML5 Canvas element, plus, of couse, the very (very) fast V8 Javascript engine). And indeed, I ran them on my Safari 4 beta without a glitch: the Javascript engine, SquirrelFish Extreme (SFX) is pretty good too.

I knew HTML5 is gonna be BIG, but I never thought “that BIG”. Not in terms of “it’s not doable” but in terms of “who can be that mad to do it!!!” :D
Evidently, there are a lot of “maddos” out there ;)

Source: Official Google Blog.

Android Dev Phone 1: to GIT Master and Back

Android Dev Phone 1If you, like me, have a Android Dev Phone 1 (“ADP1″ from now on), you are probably wondering how to take the latest version of the Android Source Code, the “GIT Master”, compile and put on your device.

I googled and googled and googled, finding some sparse material. But it’s all messed up: sometimes it was incomplete or partial, sometimes it was a matter of formatting/style, it could get very difficult to read. So, this post is my way of making it organic and organized.

Let’s get it started!
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