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Yay, +1 for Scala - Ray Cromwell

Thanks Google! It's beautiful example for realtime web application. - Hasan Ozgan

Yeah, I noticed all the Scala, too. Nice. - Joel Webber

thanks... now it might only be me but not really clear where I should go and what is it I should do to download the source. - lelapin

Sustain of Competition - Acharad Sami vanJoulee

Wow. - Todd Hoff

Well M. -- the Anti-Clique it does imply your soul purpose in life is to become a production cog in a great machine. That's worth protesting don't you think? - Todd Hoff

And what about, 'When you feel drowsy, a competitor may have drugged you.' - Micah Wittman

That's gotta be a joke, no? - Joel Webber

Why is it in English though? - ronin

Or "When you feel drowsy Freddy is waiting in the dark"? - ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift

The best part is that the Korean says "Sleepiness Prohibited". - Darren

I actually meant that I was picturing American parents protesting that this was pitting students against each other. But yes, in the fight-the-man feeling, it does seem like a noble cause to protest about - Itachi

yes , just shows that Teachers don't take crap from kids in Asian Countries !!.. and I might as well add their Governments too !! - Peter Dawson

WOW, no pressure, right? Sobering message for young minds - Susan Beebe

Given the national scores and drop out rates, I think American kids could use some pressure, something to remind them that they are in fact, competing in the global market, whether they like it or not. - Ray Cromwell

I think I also need one of this to put on my desk - Ozkan Altuner

Yes.. u can clearly see the Mac libraries I am including in the header file dhun.h. There is a lot to be said about the way the Mac OS X APIs expose functionality at the level of abstraction u wanna operate. I guess the code would have been even smaller if I had used Objective-C and some higher level APIs to play music and do the querying. This project came about after I was a few pages into Mac OS X Internals by Amit Singh and realised it would be fun to code up some of the stuff and explore the APIs. - Deepak Jois

Deepak Jois: Amit Singh ... that brings back old memories! I was a huge fan of his KernelThread site/blog a few years back for his kernel related posts/articles. IAC why not use C++? IMO coding a real application in C is such a PITA :-) - Ashwin Nanjappa

Android has an SMS API but for this app (at least this release, I may change my mind in the future), I decided to just pawn off the SMS request to the default SMS app. This allows more transparency to the users about stuff that would cost them money, i.e. sending texts. I imagine it should be possible to do the same on the iPhone - trigger the default sms app to handle sending a message, no? - Deepak Sarda

Ah ok. It's kinda half-baked on the iPhone right now. You can delegate to the official SMS app, but you can't pre-populate the body of the SMS, just the recipient list. (However you can do so for email so its kinda weird). I try to work around it like this: http://mclov.in/2009... - arunthampi

Don't have an Android myself but my brother does, so will be sure to tell him about Cabbie :) - arunthampi

That's just ridiculous. This is how I do it in Android. Bonus - this works no matter what SMS app the user chooses as their preferred app! Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW); i.setType("vnd.android-dir/mms-sms"); i.putExtra("address", PHONE_NUM); i.putExtra("sms_body", BODY); i.putExtra("exit_on_sent", true); startActivity(i); - Deepak Sarda

Cool. Yeah I'd prefer in-app SMS's because then I don't have to quit the app, but the solution you've proposed works great too. - arunthampi

You see that 'exit_on_sent' attrib? As soon as the sms is sent in the sms app, that app exits & the user is taken back to your app. In Android terms, the task stack gets unwound! The experience is as-if the sms sending is just another screen in your app. One of the best conceptual things about Android is this idea of merging activities from different apps to create what appears to the user to be a single 'traditional app'. - Deepak Sarda from email

Someday, I will have an Android phone and this app will be on it, even if I almost never use cabs :) - Balaji Dutt

@balaji: to tell you the truth, I rarely book cabs. And I haven't booked one yet with Cabbie! But I thought this idea was big enough & interesting enough to be a great intro to Android programming project - Deepak Sarda

@arun how does this app work? http://www.reviewmyiphoneapp.com/utiliti... - Deepak Sarda