Archive 7. March 2012

[[New App]] Impressive: AIDE Is An IDE That Lets You Write And Compile Android Apps On Your Android Device, Begs For The Yo Dawg Treatment. Android development on Android devices (preferably tablets). That is so meta.

Vagrant - Virtualized development for the masses.. Looks good, you can quickly set up a development environment based on BSD or Linux via the command line - and then work with it without having to manually install a bunch of things. Basically appliance templates that can be installed via command line tool. And a whole range of systems are offered as hosts (including OSX, for example). So, for example, also a very easy way to set up a LAMP stack or something similar under OSX.

PySide for Android thp.io. That sounds very interesting - this way I would have a much more favorable programming language at my disposal to build Android programs. However, the start time of Activities written in Python might be quite significant due to the loading times of the Python stack and the Qt libraries. But for building a few small tools for personal use, that shouldn't matter.

Robin Wong has tested the Olympus E-M5 and posted a mountain of sample photos. Looks very promising already, and the dynamic range tests also show good results. It will be exciting to see when the first pixel-peeper sites jump in and publish measurements, but based on the samples I would say that the E-M5 comes - at least at the lower ISO values - quite close to the Sony NEX series in terms of dynamic range.