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Linux User & Developer, Issue 109
028 days
by Gareth
in Published Work
This month’s Linux User & Developer magazine features another cover piece of mine – that’s three in a row, if anyone except me is counting – on Google’s Android 4.0 ‘Ice Cream Sandwich’ release and what it means for developers.
It was a fun, if somewhat challenging, piece, involving getting comment and option from industry luminaries including Xamarin chief technical officer Miguel de Icaza, Black Duck Software’s Peter Vescuso, Logic PD’s Mark Benson, Linux kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman and others.
Taking up four pages at the heart of the magazine, the feature looks at what has changed in Android 4.0, the industry’s reaction to those changes, what the re-opening of the source code – closed for Android 3.x ‘Honeycomb’ – means, and how developers can look to capitalise on the software’s release to make some serious dough.
Issue 109 also sees the second part of my three-part series on becoming a bug-fixer for open source projects, focusing on the LibreOffice project (thanks largely to how wonderfully helpful its members have been.) Finally, it includes a group test covering popular email clients, a project that saw me asking friends on Twitter to email sample messages to a test account for flavour – and a chance to see themselves in print, too.
More information is available on the Linux User & Developer website.
Linux User & Developer, Issue 98
0353 days
by Gareth
in Published Work
My first full cover feature for Linux User & Developer magazine, my group test this month was a rare hardware bonanza looking at four of the top Android-based tablets.
Hardware group tests are a rarity: firstly, it’s often difficult to find Linux-specific hardware that will appeal to the magazine’s readership, and secondly it’s damn-near impossible to find four such beasts of the same flavour from different manufacturers to pit against one another.
The recent tablet boom, however, changed that, and gave me a chance to get my hands dirty testing some fun kit; much of it well out of my pocket money’s range.
More information is available over on the Linux User & Developer website.
