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Just emailed Tim Bray to congratulate him on his joining Google to work on Android. The man is awesome, having founded OpenText (a Canadian ECM company that is Canada's largest software company, they recently purchased Vignette too), work at Sun (now Oracle) and having posted an awesome blog post on his move to Google:
http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2010/03/15/Joining-Google
I don't under-estimate the long-term effect of having such passionate, experienced and skilled people aboard a project, and having Tim join the Google team to work on developer advocacy is a great thing.
In other news, my new job will involve making some Android apps. Normally I delegate work, but this seems like fun so I think I will choose to do that myself.
Perhaps a "alert me when I'm near" app. Such as "alert me when I pass an open pub that serves food"... and then cycle off and get vibrations from your pocket each time you pass (within 500m) a possible lunch stop (even if you couldn't see it from the road).
I dunno... just stoked at the development of the platform and the way my work is going to give me the chance to do something on it.