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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-12-05

Don't forget to come to the #vijug meeting this Thusday. #scala #gridgain goodness. @intellijidea @javerebel to win. http://goo.gl/cNnit #
I downloaded the #cisco cius android emulator skin and my app works like a charm. Now I just wish I had a readl device to test with as well. #
The new @googlereader #android app needs a way to download and save e.g. podcast files rather than launching into the browser. #
It rocks! ♻ @nicolasgramlich: Up to now, over 1527 people played the full version of #FarmTower – 120 actually purchased it. #WIN #
Looking forward to the #vijug meeting about #gridgain and #scala to start shortly.http://goo.gl/cNnit #
The #scala dsl for #gridgain and its use is very impressive. #
I filed a critical bug last night about @intellijidea EAP startup failues and today I see that it has been retracted because of this bug. #
Recap about @gridgain visiting #VIJUG posted at http://goo.gl/cNnit #
I will be presenting about #maven usage for #android development at @AnDevCon … details to follow and input welcome! #
Must have to any #androiddev ♻ @commonsguy: #rwx2010 Warescription Lite special — 3 #androiddev books + 6 months of updates = $20 #
Showstopper bug I found last night is fixed ♻ @intellijidea: [blog] IntelliJ IDEA 10 RC 3; indexing speed improvements http://bit.ly/giDDUg #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-11-28

Anybody really understand i18n on #android ? Sched some light .. http://goo.gl/4dUv3 @commonsguy @romainguy @romainguy @retomeier #
Looks like I got #proguard obfuscation of my #roboguice powered #android app working. Sweet. #
Lots of dancing around harmony and Java… thx #oracle ♻ @romainguy: What is #android http://bit.ly/hiodYo # androiddev #
This Developers Life podcast was great as always. #
And even less gets done .. ♻ @emmby: "Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap." #
Great. Just don't start policing levels yourself. ♻ @AndroidDev: Content Rating for Android Market: http://goo.gl/iabNN #
The clouds are awesome RT @kneath: I love everything on here http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/11/national_geographics_photograp.html #
Built a release of my #android app with #maven that deploys to #nexus repository server and it worked upon first trial. #
Using retrace from #proguard on an obfuscated stack trace feel like magic 😉 #
Bought farm tower game for #android Great fun! #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-11-21

Does anybody have a clue about simplified vs traditional chinese in #android http://goo.gl/4dUv3 @romainguy @romannurik @AndroidDev #
Use Jodatime and be painfree 😉 ♻ @rgladwell: i hate working with dates and calendars in java #
Presenting an introduction to Android to the Association of Professional Enginereer BC chapter tomorrow. http://goo.gl/s9hln #
Listening now 😉 ♻ @JavaSpotlight: Java Spotlight Podcast 4: John Jullion-Ceccarelli – Netbeans Development Manager http://goo.gl/fb/8n014 #
Excite about andevcon. #

Presenting introduction to Android

Just a quick heads up that I will be presenting an introduction to Android and hosting a little discussion about opportunities it presents at the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of B.C. tomorrow evening. If you are interested you might be able to sneak in or otherwise I can always present again if you find an audience and venue 😉

Update: The presentation Android: Explained by Numbers is now available for download.

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-11-14

Had to turn off this week in mobile off .. 3 blind apple fanboys make for a useless show, where are you @androidashley ? #
The upcoming @intellijidea eap is gonna rock for #android dev. I am using a prebuilt plugin code base and there are some great improvements #
#pandroid podcast was a good start. Lots to talk about still #maven #android #roboguice @intellijidea #robotium and so on #
#android app in market upgraded. All went well as far as I can tell. Looking forward to more users and feedback. #
Added a sidebar navigation to the #maven #android plugin wiki page. The normal menu with favourites and such is just too painful. #
The improvements for #android dev in general and with #maven specifically in the new @intellijidea eap rock! #
Me too ..♻ @tomasmalmsten: Using #RoboGuice (http://bit.ly/a1IqO1) to alleviate some of the pains with Android development. #
Awesome news that Apple and Oracle cooperate on OpenJDK for MacOsx. Just like I have requested 😉 next Google to include OpenJDK in Android #
New blog post about managing your #android application version from release to release with #maven plugin http://goo.gl/w6VLK #
Trying to get obfuscation and optimizations on a complex #android app to work is anything but boring.. #

Release version management for your Android application

Today I am going to explain an improvement I made to the MorseFlash example application that I created as part of the Maven Android Plugin samples. It will help by automating the management of the version name and code. But one thing after the other.
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-11-07

Released version 2.5.2 of ksoap2 #android project adding https transport and other things http://goo.gl/Uvjt @AndroidDev #
Want to learn about #scala , cloud computing and #gridgain Come to the upcoming #vijug meeting! http://goo.gl/cNnit #
Using it every day! ♻ @twoofour: Eclipse haters rejoice: IntelliJ IDEA gets Android support http://bit.ly/bAk9Xy (via @keineantwort ) #
Sometimes the hard things are done in seconds and then the polishing of small things takes for ages. #android @AndroidDev #
Think about using shrinkColumns and stretchColumns with #android tablelayout.It sometimes fixes seemingly unrelated issues. @AndroidDev #
Very nice.. ♻ @ko5tik: working on lightweight #OCR library for #android – image slicing code works: http://sf.net/projects/javaocr/ #
Yes .. I win! BitmapFactory.decodeResource is dpi aware. decodeFile is not … so use drawable-nopdi !! @AndroidDev #android #
That should be true even if you review your own old code.♻ @rgladwell: when reviewing my colleague's code is it normal to wish I was dead? #
ROFL!! @IntoMobile How iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry Users See Each Other http://bit.ly/dlA3Rj #
When using #proguard on your #android app, you should really make sure to -keep your R class… @androiddev #
#svn merges really stink… it just buggered up my #maven pom totally. Good thing I checked. #
Turning fastScrollEnabled on for all my listviews. Why is this not on by default? #androiddev #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-10-31

On my way to #androidto #
Watching @puleen set up a sample #androidto app at #androidto .. the room is filling up slowly. in reply to puleen #
Sick hearing the fragmentation issue raised again. Diversity is a STRENGTH!! #androidto #android #
Finished with my presentation about #Maven and #android at #androidto Seemed to get lots of interest about co builds and more. #
Learning about #android widget creation. Sweet, that will save me some sdk reading. #androidto @pearlchen #
I got outweigh.. RT @ragobeer: The guy speaking right now has a lot of geekIQ #awesome #androidTO #
I got outed.. RT @ragobeer: The guy speaking right now has a lot of geekIQ #awesome #androidTO #
The file for my presentation about #maven and #android is up on my website now. #androidto @androiddev #
Recovering from #androidto I was among the last ones to leave the pub together with @androidsNsheep @MatthewPatience @chris_saunders #
Amazing how you sometimes run into people. I had a great time meeting @digitalfemme yesterday. #
#androidto recap and announcement of expansion of simpligility. Androids on board ! http://goo.gl/tEUS #
Glad u liekd it. ♻ @tomwalsham: Great talk from Manfred Moser on automated Android build/test/deploy using Apache Maven #androidTO #
I have been listening to the "new" podcast This Developers Life http://thisdeveloperslife.com/ and so far every episode rocked! #

Growth

I love how life keeps throwing opportunities and challenges at me and experiencing the personal growth I gain from taking them onboard and running with it. Recent things that I remember fondly are big changes like starting my own company, completing home improvement projects and of course every day again and again being a dad of three little, but fast growing rascally boys. Smaller things are reading and thoroughly enjoying books like ReWork. And then there are events like yesterdays AndroidTO developer conference for Android. It was the first such conference in Canada and in my opinion a huge success. I was invited to present by Puleen Patel and took up the opportunity and made my way all the way from Victoria.
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Reviving ksoap2 for Android

If you are developing Android applications that need to interface with SOAP web services, you probably know that the Android SDK does not have any support for this technology. It is somewhat considered legacy, but it is still widely used in many enterprise applications. When you look around for a SOAP library that is suitable for mobile devices in the sense that it is not too heavy you will inevitable find ksoap, which has a history on J2ME and Blackberry. Unfortunately the project has been pretty much dead for a long time now.
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