My Technology is all Broken

It is so frustrating to watch my Development equipment age.  Since I don't have the funds to upgrade, it has become a weekly battle to keep my LG Android (new in 2011), my Macbook from 2009 and all of the non-upgradable software versions that are slowly losing their ability to load, compile and deploy new code.

Apple abandoned my Macbook last spring by abandoning the OS upgrade path beyond Snow Leopard.  That led to the dead-end, life cycle for XCode.   Not to mention that my old iPhone 3 is now a museum relic -- I don't even waste the energy recharging the battery -- and Pandora won't play.  I was able to limp along with XCode using the Simulator, but now that is obsolete too, since my project is no longer compatible with IOS 7.  So, I switched my focus to Android and Google App Engine.

Eclipse was getting old (Galileo) and Android Studio has become the default downloadable Studio.  So, I made the decision to move to Android Studio and Gradle.  Downloading took forever and when it arrived, the next disappointment --- the old version of Java JRE was required to build Jelly Bean, let alone Kit Kat.  OK, so I tried to upgrade Java as Safari now blocked anything useful due to the security flaw.  After downloading, I found out that it is not compatible with Snow Leopard (notice the circular dependencies and failures).  Apple does not support my upgrade (see above), but I did find a rogue build of Java that was supposed to work on Snow Leopard -- not quite.

I am currently left with two Eclipse development environments -- one for my Android and another for Google App Engine (no IOS development until the financial situation changes).  What a mess - totally un-integrated development environments and plenty of spinning beachballs.

I bought a cheap, Azpen, tablet during Christmas with a store voucher.  It is slow as heck and the display is as dull as a 1960s color TV, but it does run Jelly Bean.  Thank goodness that my son upgraded his iPhone to the new 5S, so I got his hand-me-down 4S (with just wifi -- no cell plan).

Anyone want to buy my Macbook for their Technology Museum?  I need enough to buy a new Macbook and register for Apple Development for 2014 (that has expired).  Press the "donate now" button.