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Re: no forth pc? no forth replacement for mysqL? a la www.prevayler.org? no forth appserver?

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On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 9:45:27 PM UTC-6, Albert van der Horst wrote:
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> One of the first things I installed on my Asus Memopad.
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> Easy to find, easy to install, easy to use.
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> But I don't think I'll do even half serious development
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> with the touchpad keyboard.
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The Asus Memopad has bluetooth, so you can use a keyboard with it.  The three types are:

1. A giant bulky case (for protection) with an attached bluetooth keyboard.  You can prop up the tablet, generally only in landscape mode, which is worse for development.  If the case is 'universal', it's probably a minor feat to extract the tablet from it; this detracts considerably from the charm of having a tablet.

2. A keyboard with a bit of extra plastic that you can lean the tablet against.  These tend to allow freedom of orientation, tend to be stiffer and better for laps.  Some of them double as covers.

3. A completely separate keyboard.  Maybe the keyboard's own carrying-case doubles as a stand.

For devices with host USB support and the appropriate adapters, you can also use wired keyboards.  I have a nice stand and bluetooth keyboard at home, and also a wired rubber keyboard that I carry with me.

You can also use a mouse.  Now that I have a Note I'd rather use the S-pen, but a mouse was certainly useful with the map editor.

This is nothing new.  PalmOS had Quartus Forth and portable folding keyboards.

Or if you do normal desktop Android development, the first or second step is to configure an emulator.  You can install gforth into that, too.

-- Julian

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no forth pc? no forth replacement for mysqL? a la www.prevayler.org? no forth appserver? the_gavino_himself <visphatesjava@gmail.com> - 2014-02-12 18:36 -0800
  Re: no forth pc? no forth replacement for mysqL? a la www.prevayler.org? no forth appserver? Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> - 2014-02-12 19:17 -0800
    Re: no forth pc? no forth replacement for mysqL? a la www.prevayler.org? no forth appserver? albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2014-02-13 03:45 +0000
      Re: no forth pc? no forth replacement for mysqL? a la www.prevayler.org? no forth appserver? Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> - 2014-02-12 20:28 -0800
        Re: no forth pc? no forth replacement for mysqL? a la www.prevayler.org? no forth appserver? stephenXXX@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2014-02-13 12:51 +0000
  Re: no forth pc? no forth replacement for mysqL? a la www.prevayler.org? no forth appserver? the_gavino_himself <visphatesjava@gmail.com> - 2014-02-20 02:36 -0800
  Re: no forth pc? no forth replacement for mysqL? a la www.prevayler.org? no forth appserver? gavino_himself <visploveslisp@gmail.com> - 2014-02-27 22:16 -0800
    Re: no forth pc? no forth replacement for mysqL? a la www.prevayler.org? no forth appserver? Jason Damisch <jasondamisch@yahoo.com> - 2014-03-01 11:08 -0800
      Re: no forth pc? no forth replacement for mysqL? a la www.prevayler.org? no forth appserver? gavino_himself <visploveslisp@gmail.com> - 2014-03-01 22:39 -0800
        Re: no forth pc? no forth replacement for mysqL? a la www.prevayler.org? no forth appserver? marko <marko@marko.marko> - 2014-03-12 21:20 +1100
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