Excellent iOS-Android contrast writeup from a hands-on-developer viewpoint:

“Sugar is a Javascript library for working with native objects. It is designed to be intuitive, unobtrusive, and let you do more with less code.”

Because timezones are too much for a single tweet: here is how you do timezones with Python the proper way:

JSHint is a community-driven tool to detect errors and potential problems in JavaScript code and to enforce your team's coding conventions. It is very flexible so you can easily adjust it to your particular coding guidelines and the environment you expect your code to execute in.

JSHint is an open-source project that is supported and maintained by the JavaScript developer community. The source code is available on GitHub.

To convert a bzr repository to git (cwd: bzr repo):
$ git init &&
bzr fast-export pwd | git fast-import &&
rm -r .bzr &&
git reset HEAD

'What I call “the miserable programmer paradox” states the following:

“A good programmer will spend most of his time doing work that he hates, using tools and technologies that he also hates.”'