December 2011
3 posts
“Informally, the programs were called “ropes” because of the durable...”
– Apollo 11 and Other Screw-Ups
Railings
Some private reactions to my dismissal of the Raspberry Pi involved the simplicity of setting up development environments in Linux.
The most hyped business development framework on that platform at the moment has to be Ruby on Rails. There are a lot of issues with its philosophy, but in general it is quite a good framework, if you ignore its database generation and employ a professional to...
No pi for me
The Raspberry Pi is just wrong on so many levels.
The BBC micro (which appears to be its inspiration) was not a cheap, entry-level computer. It was the most expensive micro on the market. This is more like the Sinclair MK14 and I predict that it will sell in around the same numbers.
The computer fraternity always bemoan the fact that ICT (Government Orwell-speak for computing) as taught in...