David Watson

A member of the Philip Greenspun's Homepage community since December 21, 2011

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December 21, 2011, on iPhone versus Android:
I've still yet to find a modern smart phone that had a keyboard anywhere near the quality of the sidekick II. It's a shame that the android system that came to prominence didn't have more in common with the sidekick. That was a truly great device well ahead of its time.
January 27, 2012, on Web Operations:
@Bas Scheffers: MySQL still gets more usage than PostgreSQL because its discoverability, GUI variety, and command line usability are better. Having used both, I can tell you that I have plenty of days where I wish psql had a better command interpreter, help system, etc. Take a look at bpython, apply that thinking to psql. People will come. Unfortunately, product management is not open source's strong point. MySQL also has better GUI tools in general. I'm still waiting for some enterprising kid to make a version of Sequel Pro that talks to Postgres. For extra credit, de-bind it from Mac OS X and make it run on Linux. But don't, whatever you do, make it with WX, which IMHO is what makes PGAdmin so unbelievably bad and tedious to use, despite its power with graphical query analysis. @philip: I've run a number of systems on google app engine, EC2, and heroku. There are so many now I can't keep track of them. For my money, I think systems like heroku will win. The ability to abstract away...