SkippyZA

Native will always perform better.

I personally use Cocos2dx HTML5 which then can be compiled to native iOS and Android code, and can be run in a browser.

Great job. I have been working on a similar Google Reader replacement using Ruby and Ember.

IMAP is great. I am now having all my email address forward to Gmail and then use the Gmail app on iOS.

The more that is in the cloud, the happier I am

I have just been on the job market looking for a senior PHP position. There were so many companies that requested tests from me. Either in the form of online tests, or tasks which I had to complete and return. While I do understand the need for them (having had to hire other developers), some of the requests were quite outrageous.

1 particular company basically wanted an entire application to be developed in an evening, and I was giving strict instructions to focus on security and not allowed to use external libraries. After submitting this elaborate task, I was still criticized on using PDO (which is standard with PHP...).

IMHO, sometimes the lengths employees go through to find a developer are so ridiculous that they actually drive away people.

mitmproxy = Malcolm in the Middle Proxy?

Couldn't agree more with E_ALL|E_STRICT.

The current legacy system I am maintaining took me 2 weeks to clear up 90% of the NOTICE errors for using undefined variables etc.

Dirty code is dirty, and it is because of this that PHP has received so much negative publicity.

Ctrl+l is my most used command. I need a clean terminal

Choose to go HTML5 + Phonegap and we could possibly talk

Like you say, it's normally just for eye candy