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So, i was told it would be a good idea to start a dev blog and seeing as I'm tied into the Google world, I thought I might as well opt for blogger rather than Wordpress. But I digress(and believe me there will be many digressions). My name is Arjun Taheem as you might've guessed and I'm currently a 2nd year student at Hull Uni studying Computer Science.

I've mainly done stuff like C#, OpenGL, Prolog and some basic PHP/MySQL/HTML/CSS (although i am brushing up on Javascript thanks to this gem) but since Blackberry are doing a nice promo to offer a free tablet for people who develop an android app for there playbook, I thought i might as well delve into some Java. Although I've heard its quite bitter at times, it fuels pretty much all Android apps so I thought I'd better hop on there.

I'm also a massive fan of mobile stuff. Seriously I've managed to sell touch screen phones to friends who hate touch screens/smart phones on multiple occasions and I look up this stuff every day. I love the openness of Android, the integrated and beautiful experience of Windows Phone and iOS is good for gaming apps. Its pretty much in that order of what smartphone OS I personally prefer. And please understand this is a preference, I genuinely think that Windows Phone is actually a more cohesive and integrated OS than Android or iOS, it just doesnt have the apps for me personally. I was hoping to help out with the app situation with making my first (mediocre) mobile app for windows phone but this Playbook promotion got the better of me so I switched to an Android tablet app. And tablets are pretty cool...

Anyway enough talk, I'm going to bury myself in the links i saved in my java bookmarks folder and get started with eclipse. I realise this isnt the best time to start programming but ah well. Programmers are often nocturnal creatures. ;)

Arjun