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Android 4.0 on Raspberry Pi : The folks over at the Raspberry Pi foundation are showing off their latest wares. This time around it’s Android 4.0 running on the Raspberry Pi . Although this is a pre-release announcement, it sounds like the work is rather far along. Hardware acceleration for video playback is in place, but there are still some audio issues that need to be fixed before it will be ready. We know the foundation isn’t the first one to pull this kind of thing off. Look around and you can see some other proof-of-concept videos  which show Ice Cream Sandwich running on the board in one stage or another. But the demo from the video after the break gives us hope that rock solid support is just around the corner. After all, Netflix runs on Android and so does XBMC . Both running on the RPi brings the device one step closer to the holy grail of dirt cheap and mostly-open set top boxes. The one thing we haven’t seen yet is the killer control method for the device. If you’ve got

This night, I read the following article (http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2010/02/if-your-product-is-great-it-doesnt-need.html), and put it in perspective with my own products (success and failure). Putting more and more features will not help a poorly designed product, it will damage it and your development budget will go to the roof. Instead, fix the core, polish it, and see what your potential customer say about it. Based on these feedbacks, improve your product. The main lesson I've learned these past 20 years : you never know what your customers wants, just ask them ...

If you want to cast a text field to integer, but some of your records are empty, here is a solution to avoid the : invalid input syntax for integer: '' error. Simply put a '0' at the beginning of your cast like this : ('0' || text_field)::integer. All empty fields will be equal to 0, and the others begins with 0 and convert without any problem to integer.

I don't know if this will be the next big thing, but it's kicking fast. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBH0cX98F3Q