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I'm exited to develop for this platform, more excited than the SDK for iPhone, which should be here in January '08 (crosses fingers). I would ditch my iPhone right now if I could find a device that will run Android. There is some truth to what "Steve" said in the video below, "In order to create a great product you have to live with it."

I also found a three part video on android-ology here.

I've been using Parallels a lot lately. Anyways the most annoying thing about OS X Internet Sharing is the default network address space is set to 192.168.2.0/24. The big issue with that address space is that if you're on a network that uses that address space and you want to use your parallels (utilizing host-only networking) with internet sharing you are immediately screwed. Dear Apple why is there no UI for this? I've spent a fair amount of time researching how to get into the innards of OS X to reconfigure this default DHCP address space range. After "googling" around for what seemed like a lifetime, I found this man page for InternetSharing.To fix the glitch:

1. Make sure that internet sharing is off in System Preferences->Internet & Network -> Sharing.
2. Edit /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.nat.plist, and add the following nodes to the "Nat" <dict> node.<key>SharingNetworkNumberStart</key><string>192.168.100.0</string>
3. I could not figure out how to make the changes to com.apple.nat.plist persist, so I restarted OS X. Instead of restarting the OS, I should have restarted com.apple.InternetSharing via launchd.

Finally:After the restart, and enabling Internet Sharing I was finally receiving an IP address from the newly configured address space.

A wonderful interview with Donald Norman on how engineering intersects with design. If any of you are engineers out there and haven't experienced why design is important please listen to this interview. Design and engineering go hand in hand, one cannot exist without the other.

In Leopard when I turned on the Web Sharing option in System Preferences -> Sharing. I would get a 403 Forbidden Error! Turns out that when I upgraded from Tiger to Leopard the installer didn't copy over file from one directory to another. To fix the "glitch" just type:

sudo cp /private/etc/httpd/users/* /private/etc/apache2/users/

This year wasn't nearly as fun as last year. This is what happens when you go corporate. I don't know how much longer this "culture" will sustain itself.