Christopher Burnor | christopher.burnor@gmail.com | 33 posts
Chris is a freelance web developer in the San Francisco Bay Area with interests in Python and Android development. Before going into programming, he studied physics at Amherst College, worked two years of technical support for the college after graduating and spent two months in Africa teaching villagers in rural Sierra Leone how to manage their micro-loan programs using Eee PCs.
The ongoing mystery with the new batch of Android smartphones has been why, despite having multitouch capability built into the hardware and operating system, the phones still do not support multitouch gestures. This seemed passable with the Motorola Droid due to the external keyboard, but unacceptable for the NexusOne, which has no other way to [...]
Sometimes you can have good ideas that, when combined, do not add up to a better idea. Take gaming computers and netbooks. Alienware has done quite well in the gaming computer market, delivering high performance, stylish gaming computers. Netbooks are the current trend, hot with consumers because of their low cost and high portability. However [...]
Listeners of the Symbiotek Podcast will recall that I am no fan of Craigslist – the iconic online classifieds site that has so fundamentally defined the online classified market. I should be clear that I actually respect what Craigslist does quite a bit. It just annoys me to no end that there is still no [...]
