OK, so I’ve made some comments about the Madman site in the past but lately I have been getting more and more upset by outages in the service. Right now that has really reached boiling point as I’ve been trying to get to the site for the last 7 hours. Read on for more ranting on the subject, along with some (hopefully) constructive criticism.
Recently I’ve been doing some work on a desktop Java application and I decided to use Eclipse and my IDE. I hadn’t used it for a while (since I did my 4th year engineering project - almost 3 years ago now) and I’m loving all the features and how easy it makes some things.
In case you’ve been living under a rock - or simply don’t care about mobile development - Google recently released a public preview of Android, a new platform for mobile devices built on top of a Linux kernel. You may have heard of it before as it turns out that Android is the thing everyone assumed to be the Google “gPhone”. Well, they’re not releasing a phone but with a ton of device makers on board to use Android (sounds like everyone except Apple, surprise, surprise) I don’t think anyone is going to mind.
YUI Compressor version 2.2.1 has been released. Go forth and minify!