As my project to migrate EP Mobile from Android to iOS progresses, there might be some of you who are interested in some of the obstacles that I have had to deal with. These obstacles are numerous and non-trivial. The programming languages (Java vs Objective-C) are completely different. The programming IDEs (Eclipse vs Xcode) are… Continue reading From Android to iOS: User Interface Issues
Category: Computers & Software
Computerized Medical Documentation: Disappointing So Far
It’s usually some minor irritation that gets me into blog-writing mode, much as a grain of sand forces an oyster to produce a pearl. Judging by the dearth of blogs I have written recently, one might assume that my life has been remarkably free of irritation lately. That’s not the case. I’ve just been too… Continue reading Computerized Medical Documentation: Disappointing So Far
From Android to iOS, First Steps
EP Mobile has surpassed 10,000 downloads, and has matured to version 1.0. It is time to start porting it from Android to Apple iOS. This is a non-trivial task. I wish there was a conversion program that could take the Android Java program code and, with a click of the mouse, automagically transform it into… Continue reading From Android to iOS, First Steps
About EP Mobile
There has been somewhat of a deafening silence here at EP Studios with regard to blog posts. While my friend Dr. John M continues his torrential flow of bloggery, I have been more subdued than I usually am (which is already pretty subdued) and have left some tempting blog topics untouched because I’ve been preoccupied. … Continue reading About EP Mobile
Adventures In Computing: From OpenSuse To Ubuntu
New releases of Linux distributions tend to occur more rapidly than new releases of Windows or Mac OS X. New Linux distro releases have the latest versions of the Linux kernel, as well as the most up-to-date versions of useful open-source software programs. In other words, cool stuff. Nevertheless, upgrading is always fraught with a… Continue reading Adventures In Computing: From OpenSuse To Ubuntu
A Microsoft Morning
I try to avoid The Vole, as Microsoft is referred to by one of my favorite tech sites, The Inquirer, but, much like Chun The Unavoidable in Jack Vance’s The Dying Earth, it sometimes is, well, unavoidable. One reason I can’t completely cut the tie to Bill Gates et al. is the electronic medical records… Continue reading A Microsoft Morning
Moving a WordPress Blog to a New Server
Time doesn’t stand still, even at EP Studios. Sluggo the original $100 eBay-purchased Pentium III computer was showing signs of age. Nevertheless, sitting in my closet, hooked to an ethernet cable, exposed to wilds of the Internet on ports 80, 22, 26 and 110, it was an adequate web server for my website/blog for 5… Continue reading Moving a WordPress Blog to a New Server
The End of Books
Borders is gone. Barnes and Noble stock has fallen 80% over the last 5 years. Amazon now sells more eBooks than print books. Public libraries close on Sundays and have turned into internet cafes where the books are ignored and noise levels are too high to concentrate. There is no doubt that print books are… Continue reading The End of Books
Free Software That's Not Free
Facebook has some ads off to the side, and one of them aroused my curiosity — an ad for the ProFlight Simulator. I have used flight simulators since the very first version of what was to become Microsoft Flight Simulator, subLOGIC’s FS1 which ran on my Apple II+ back in the 1980s. I have… Continue reading Free Software That's Not Free
New Laptop at EP Studios: Lenovo X220 (aka SuperKrell)
Old Krell (a Panasonic Pentium-III Toughbook laptop circa 2002) having served its various purposes but getting somewhat hoary with age, I decided to invest in a new laptop. My criteria for selecting the new laptop included: relatively lightweight, good battery life, and Linux compatibility. I was sorely tempted to buy one of the new MacBook… Continue reading New Laptop at EP Studios: Lenovo X220 (aka SuperKrell)