Android

I don't talk much on this site about what I do at work. There are a couple of reasons for that -- what I do is somewhat too specialist to describe easily (I am a member of the Site Reliability Engineering Group, who are tasked with making google.com the most reliable site on the Internet), somewhat technical (you see, if we tweak the thingie on that cluster just a little, we can decrease the doodily by 15 milliseconds!), and frankly I'd rather not spend all my time talking about work at home. On the other hand, sometimes something makes me so proud that I just have to say something. Previous examples are the open sourcing of Slack, Google open sourcing patches for MySQL, and describing how we deploy MySQL servers at the MySQL Users Conference, and the LCA 2007 MythTV tutorial that Google went out of its way to help with. This week's proud moment is the launch of Android. I've been coding on and off for the platform since August last year, and have had a Dream handset in my pocket since July this year. Frankly, I don't bother to power my blackberry on any more. However, the point…