More digressions

Guys, you're taking my comments out of context again . Please don't. I'm not a luddite nor do i begrudge a web designer the chance to make applets using the tools he has to work with, because development is fun. Progress is great, isn't it? These days anyone can paste together scripts and a UI and be a developer. Make apps, not love! It's a mini cultural revolution.

Great.

Now, let's just ignore the fact that there's already a far more elegant and less syntactically neurotic option available in python. No matter:

My chief concern was and remains the efficiency of the maemo software. I want a bigger screen and better battery life in a similar package; a whole lot of people who are not currently in the potential market for a Maemo device want a smaller device that will last through the day. These two evolved products are not achievable without increasing the efficiency of maemo (as i laid out in excruciating detail in the other thread). Adding a built-in javacript layer can either be neutral to that end or detrimental, and in either case absorbs resources that could be spent directly on improving the existing system.

I'm repeating myself again.

Anyway, i think this comes down to a difference of opinion on which is better for the success of maemo: better (ie sleeker) devices, or app proliferation. I can agree to disagree on this because the jury is still out.

The Z in the room

This was my second Sunday using my Z and N900 both at church, and the experience has been intersting. I will wait a couple more weeks until i have had a chance to pit Rapier or the new Qt scripture reader app against my current Z reader before i write up this use case experience.

Upgraded servers and user

This weekend i have been busy finishing the prboom port to fremantle in my Maemo time. I also grabbed the old gweled source from garage and fixed it up for uploading to the fremantle autobuilder. I was pleased by both my own increased understanding of the debian package system, maemozation, SDL, etc., and the new autobuilder server. The whole process with gweled took less than an hour.