richardzak.md

I've compiled the lastest good revision of Chromium, the open source version of Google's Chrome browser. Its available here for Linux: download. I'm just amazed at how fast it is at loading & rendering pages. Great work Google! Now, it just needs a bookmark manager, and for the community to make some awesome extensions. Some extensions are available on chromeextensions.org.

When it first came out, I tried to download, compile, and test Google's new programming language, Go. It seems like an interesting idea, it merges Python and C++. It doesn't have a lot of packages and files to #include like C++, but like C++ it is a fully compiled language. There aren't any semicolons to be seen, like Python.

About two weeks ago, I bought the Android Dev Phone 1. Its essentially the T-Mobile G1, but with all the debugging extras, and totally unlocked (SIM unlocked, bootloader unlocked, and rooted). I have been using it as my regular phone, since if I am to develop for the platform, I have to know about the user experience. I need to know what other apps do and look like, and what some users may come to experience from applications in general.