computoman

One of the major reasons I have not purchased a touch pad is that you can not easily program the devices for your own use. One thing I liked about the traditional personal computer is that you could develop programs fairly easily without having to buy both an expensive computer and development software just to get the device to do what you want. Not only that, you really can not use a program and easily port it from one device to another. That is just not right. Decided to look around for a possible solution to resolve the issue of not being able to create one's own software for the devices. There were basically three criteria. First you had to be easily able to port or move your program from one platform to another. The second was that you did not need an expensive machine and software for software development. Lastly, we did not want to have to be tied to some "APP store" to get our software. So what did we come up with? O'Reilly has some fine books. We prob...