With the news flying about for Android 4.3 and the eventual Android 5.0, it got some creative juices flowing in my head. I was thinking if I was to create a custom ROM like CyanogenMod, what would I do? For one thing, I don’t want it to be just another ROM, but be a base [...]
Recently a colleague of mine asked me what I thought of Closure in comparison to Angular. So I decided to learn what Closure can do and perform an evaluation on whether I would use it. In the end, I would recommend Angular over Closure for two big reasons: Closure introduces more specific tooling and dependencies [...]
Recently a colleague of mine asked me what I thought of Closure in comparison to Angular. Before writing this article, my experience with Closure was that it is was a toolkit for web development used by Google. After looking at the materials, it apparently is a battle-tested (i.e. used in Gmail) template engine with a [...]
Recently the Globe and Mail posted an article The continuing decline of the ‘middle-skill’ worker which got me thinking of the useless third of the population of the Golgafrinchans. However, I don’t think it needs to be as polarized as the article deems it to be. Rather than focusing on the decline, it’s better to [...]
Arts and Science together? Actually it is possible and I am a graduate of the York University Computer Science Bachelor of Arts program. Recently the York University alumni office called me up and asked me what my experience was with York University back in the day. I was fortunate to avoid the strikes because my [...]
I was pondering that although I like to do some art even sketch notes like Sacha, I just didn’t feel like it was in me and the interest just wanes quite often. When I was drawing the equilateral triangle and the hierarchy of business goals in SVG and reminiscing on how I created my logo [...]
Recently Google introduced support for uploading your own PDFs to Google Play Books. The raves It was nice that the your current page syncs up with your devices. Does not impact your Google Drive storage limits. The Rants Unfortunately, not all is good in Google-land, especially for what seem like simple and obvious things like [...]
