I am a developer, open source consumer, and Android evangelist. I’ve been looking to break into the open source world as a contributor for quite a while now, but was struggling to find projects that were both relevant and interesting to me. This past week, however, two projects have caught my eye and I have made it a personal goal to actually contribute something of value to them. I thought that by scribbling a note here it would somehow cement my level of commitment. Guess we’ll see how that pans out.

In any case, the projects are both Android apps that I use somewhat regularly, and I’m honestly looking forward to feeling stupid for a while until I get up to speed with the SDK. I’ve played around with it before, but shit now appears to be getting real. Once I’ve moved past the point of being a complete moron, I’ll probably be compelled to share some of my thoughts and/or contributions out here.

On a side note, taking this plunge has necessitated me learning Git – something I’ve been meaning to do for a while now. After about two days of playing, I think I might finally be getting the hang of it. Linus Torvalds doesn’t need anyone else to verbally felate him, but the man is a goddamn genius.

Parting shot: look at how pretty this syntax highlighting is – LOOK.

// This code sure is useful
public void foo() {
    System.out.println("foo");
}