For those of you who are iOS or OSX developers or interested in becoming a developer for these platforms, you should check out this FAQ style article that covers the newly announced (at WWDC 2014) Swift Programming Language. Good introduction. So, check it out! 🙂   http://www.raywenderlich.com/74138/swift-language-faq

For those of you that are Microsoft fanboys (or fangirls), Microsoft held an event today to introduce their 3rd generation Pro tablet and some accessories for same. The Press Release link is below.   http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2014/may14/05-20surfacepr.aspx There is also an article on Macrumors.com about the new device.  

Just a heads up to those following the progress of Haiku OS and it’s Webkit based browser, WebPositive. As of hrev47114 (nightly build), there are the beginnings of support for HMTL 5 Video/Audio. Go check it out! 🙂

If you are a Haiku OS enthusiasts AND an Austin Powers fan, this will make you smile. I just found the following Easter Egg in the naming of one of the threads of ‘media_addon_server’…. These folks are having too much fun….:-)

If you are a tinkerer of alternative OS’s, then you might know about Haiku OS. It is the Open Source recreation of the old BeOS, that was created by the now defunct, Be, Inc. It is the OS that was ‘almost’ the new Mac OS (Steve Jobs won that battle), but lost out to NeXTSTEP