Archive for November, 2009

The Success of MultiTouch is a Lie

Listening to some podcasts about mobile devices I heard over and over statements like “iPhone changed the world with multi-touch” and “Android could compete with Apple if it had multi-touch.” This simply isn’t true. Okay, while perhaps not a lie, the success and value of of multitouch is extremely overrated. In fact, the iPhone barely [...]

OreDev on Design

I was in Sweden all of this past week for the OreDev conference. I had a wonderful time last year and made it first on my list to see again. The attendees are friendly and their technologies diverse, making it such a good learning environment. I was especially pleased to see they have added an [...]

Art, Design, and Sweden

I had hoped to have my next tutorial article done by now but, alas, travel and JavaStore deadlines snuck up on me. I’m currently flying to Sweden for the annual OreDev conference. If you live in northern Europe and have never been to OreDev I highly recommend it. It’s not too big (600ish attendees), has [...]