Monthly Archive for April, 2011

Android Development Introduction at VIJUG

Published on 2011/04/29 in Android, Presentation and Vancouver Island Java User Group. 1 Comment

Last night I presented at the Vancouver Island JUG about Android development. The meeting was well attended with about 20 attendees and everybody learned about things like the activity life cycle, layout files, resources and many more things. The presentation file is available for download just in case you need to look something up or you could not attend.

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-04-10

Published on 2011/04/10 in Twitter Updates. 0 Comments
  • So true… and weird. ♻ @therealjorge: I'm not even a gamer, and Kristen Schaal is making me want the Xperia Play. Well done, Sony. #
  • Interesting. #groklaw should dig out whats in those patents.. ♻ @retomeier: Patents and innovation http://bit.ly/i77NeY #
  • Totally . you can make eg. gridviews dynamic too.. ♻ @wbm: It seems that android apps scale up to tablet size much better than iPhone apps. #
  • AutoCompletTextView with Validator is pretty sweet for long lists of selection on #android in terms of easy to use and develop. Love it. #
  • Me too. Waiting for feedback first though. ♻ @donnfelker: Thinking about submitting a talk to Android Dev Con II in November. #androiddev #
  • Anybody know if there is going to be #AndroidTo 2011 or #DroidCamp CA 2011? #
  • Totally agree! ♻ @alsutton: imho @google and @googletv should be talking nicely to @romannurik about the #GoogleTV UI/UX job :) #
  • I wish I could just walk over to #bestbuy and get a xoom. Alas.. none in stock. #
  • Congrats ♻ @gnome: 3 years in the making, 9 years since our last major release, #gnome3 is out! Read the announcement: http://bit.ly/hP9unw #
  • Hacking into the morning. At leat concluding with success. Time for some sleep. #
  • About time! ♻ @retomeier: Andy Rubin sets the record straight: http://bit.ly/hFLc6w #
  • Coding an #android example app without #roboguice to be more generic. Man, thats painful. #
  • Would be interesting to see the benefits of the twitter refactor thanks to JVM performance vs improved architecture. #
  • Getting myself a #xoom at #bestbuy in #yyj Arrived today #
  • So if you cut the build out of the testing process… how do you run it on a CI server.. @mojavelinux #
  • Looking into usb connection of devices on #android delivers a sad state of affairs. Do I basically have to go bluetooth? #
  • And of course #hudsonci too. ♻ @jenkins_release: Android Emulator Plugin 1.12 http://dlvr.it/MsMzn #jenkinsci #
  • Thats been there for ages. ♻ @jamescarr: Ah… google code now offers mercurial in addition to SVN? Nice… #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-04-03

Published on 2011/04/03 in Twitter Updates. 0 Comments
  • Great example on how a remote api can empower the user #hudson #groovy http://goo.gl/5E3Oz #
  • After a whole bunch of coding I am enjoying some writing now.. #
  • Tried to wake up for the #hudson webinar. Failed… too much coding and writing until late in the night.. #
  • I will not be attending the #at amp;t #motodev webinar about the #atrix since microsoft live meeting does not work on linux or mac for me #fail #
  • Talking to @Macarse about #honeycomb support for #roboguice I need to get a #xoom Is it worth importing to #cdn from the states? #
  • Looks like my #roboguice clone work with #guice 3 .. #androiddev http://goo.gl/XECmj enjoy @Macarse @emmby #
  • Mercuria #hg is kinda like #git with #svn syntax #
  • Nice… I am writing too atm ♻ @jyeary: Cleaning up my email and getting started on material for book. #
  • Fingers xed RT @edd We'll be notifying #OSCON speakers in early April. Pushed back date as we added OSCON Data & Java. ~1200 fab proposals #
  • Making some progress for automatic deployment of an apk to all attached emulators with the #maven #android plugin. Should be sweet.. #
  • Very cool! ♻ @intellijidea: [blog] New concept of Android SDK in IntelliJ IDEA 10.5 http://bit.ly/fPAAH0 #
  • Hiding the soft keyboard on #android in the right time but showing it in other can be a pain to manage. #
  • I think it should be made much harder for users to use old versions of a software. Auto update and make it hard to get an old version! #
  • The latest release of the #maven #scm plugin supports encrypted passwords in settings.xml. Sweet! #
  • Next #ubuntu verion getting close. Beta 1 today. I am going to do a complete reinstall to get rid of years of cruft. Should be fun. #
  • Love the xml config too! ♻ @burke_eric: I've had it with Guice. Spent last weekend converting my Android project to Spring and loving it. #
  • Hahaha RT @brian_frank: It's April 2, which means we can all go back to believing everything we read on the internet. #

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