Time to get serious once more...

It has been a long time since I wrote some serious s*** on this blog, mainly due to the lack of time caused by a Master's degree and the job I have in Strasbourg.

The embedded systems love I nurtured since the start of this blog is still with me, although now I have a more realistic vision of its real potential in a real life situation, my life to be more exact. Even though it is a very interesting domain, the fact that I don't have millions of euros to invest in new ideas, renders my impact in this domain to be limited to this blog, and the wacky contraptions that can be made using a PIC micro and some elbow grease. That is it! There is the option of working for a company that has the power to change something, but those are rare and far between, plus the feeling of accomplishment is truly not the same.

Next I thought that the next best thing is to work on devices that are already designed, and just try to take advantage of their hardware and public. Of course Iphone comes to mind, but it is not the only player in the market anymore, since Android, Symbian opened their SDK's to developers.

Unfortunately for the Iphone the ship has sailed a long time ago, meaning that there are already 140000 applications in the AppStore and counting. Next is the Android Market has around 60000 apps, but the trick with this is that for a developer to actually make some money he needs a bank account in a handful of European countries. Bummer! Apple just announced the iPad, which out of the box is just an oversized Ipod Touch, not bad to start with, but useless without real applications to take advantage of the untapped use case scenarios it presents.

For me, this year is all about web programming. and the subject of the next few posts will be Google's GWT and a project called VisualLinks. It is a school project I have to do with a few of my colleagues, in order to receive some credits.

I provided a link to the Google Projects page here