All the hype about the new Sharp Zaurus’s is getting me to drool on my
keyboard.
But, yuck! They are Java driven. Yuck. Yuck. Yuck.
Anybody got Ruby on to a PDA yet?
Tell me more…
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The Zaurus has a Ruby port; somebody posted the URL a few weeks back.
Search on “zaurus” at http://www.ruby-talk.org/
[ruby-talk:70521]
Cheers,
Brian.
On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 10:53:48AM +0900, John Carter wrote:
All the hype about the new Sharp Zaurus’s is getting me to drool on my
keyboard.But, yuck! They are Java driven. Yuck. Yuck. Yuck.
Anybody got Ruby on to a PDA yet?
Google ‘Zaurus Ruby’ for food 
e.g.
http://www.caliban.org/ruby/ruby-zaurus.shtml
daz
“John Carter” john.carter@tait.co.nz wrote
All the hype about the new Sharp Zaurus’s is getting me to drool on my
keyboard.But, yuck! They are Java driven. Yuck. Yuck. Yuck.
Anybody got Ruby on to a PDA yet?
Tell me more…
All the hype about the new Sharp Zaurus’s is getting me to drool on my
keyboard.But, yuck! They are Java driven. Yuck. Yuck. Yuck.
Anybody got Ruby on to a PDA yet?
Tell me more…
i’ve been checking them out too, as i’m the process of creating a pda app.
the thing with java j2me however, is the whole write once run anywhere thing.
it’s amazing how lame the whole setup is though - for instance there are no
free db impl’s for j2me (like PointBase). it could rocket ruby into the
limelight if it
a) could be byte compiled or had a sufficiently fast (trimmed down) interpreter
b) ports existed for palm, pocket pc, linux (pda), etc
seems like this may even be possible since it doesn’t have ‘Sun - try to sue
us’ tatoo’d on it like j2me…
just musing…
-a
On Mon, 19 May 2003, John Carter wrote:
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New ZealandA Million Monkeys can inflict worse things than just Shakespeare on
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Brian Candler wrote:
The Zaurus has a Ruby port; somebody posted the URL a few weeks back.
Search on “zaurus” at http://www.ruby-talk.org/
… and it works fine on at least one of the new models. One of my colleagues here bought one and the first thing I badgered him to do was install Ruby :-).
It’s a very nice machine, particularly the display. However, I’m unconvinced about the keyboard. I think I’d end hacking on a “real” machine and just running the apps (written in Ruby, of course!) on the little fellow. In which case, I’d prefer the same form factor as the older Zaurus-es (ie, pull-down keyboard), just with the higher res display.
All the hype about the new Sharp Zaurus’s is getting me to drool on my
keyboard.But, yuck! They are Java driven. Yuck. Yuck. Yuck.
Anybody got Ruby on to a PDA yet?
Google ‘Zaurus Ruby’ for food
Or try ‘iPAQ ruby’
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Bye,
Kero.