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SOPA – so far, so crap

tommieb — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:23:46 +0000

There’s a very good mashable on this SOPA/PIPA in which a fellow programmer managed to unravel the spaghetti loops behind the meaning of SOPA. As a fellow protestor, and showing my support, I have tweaked this site to show the message to stop the craziness by hapless fools who put together a string of meaningless [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Sad passing of Dennis Ritchie

tommieb — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 19:45:20 +0000

Saw a tweet earlier on today and it caught my eye. Then learnt that the creator of the C programming language and also Unix, passed away over this weekend. RIP Dennis Ritchie. On a more serious note, need to get this off my chest, and no dis-respect either in this regard to Apple’s Steve Jobs [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Windows-free zone!

tommieb — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 19:15:22 +0000

Ha! Been wanting to say this for a while! I am now a Windows free zone – no Windows systems lying around. Goodbye Windows Goodbye Slackware – yes, I know, I know, was a long time fan of Slackware ever since I acquired Walnut Creek CDROM set with kernel 1.2.13 .. And now I welcome [...] Related posts:

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APK + Code Signing

tommieb — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 10:00:49 +0000

Recently, during a project, that involved code signing and custom deployment/updating the apk, I discovered that if an apk is debug-signed and gets downloaded, the installer will not update the apk, in fact, it will refuse to work with an installation error! That was a rather simple error but to show that it is often [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Setting up your own GitHub

tommieb — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 13:27:27 +0000

This article is about how to set up your own private github repository on Linux, in a few easy steps. I have tried a few packages that I personally, found, convoluted and complicated. Sometimes the simplest way is the best way. A few pre-requisites here needed: A user id that has been created by root, [...] Related posts:

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Windows free Zone!

tommieb — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 14:29:57 +0000

Ha! Been wanting to say this for a while! I am now a Windows free zone – no Windows systems lying around. Goodbye Windows Goodbye Slackware And now I welcome in open arms….(drum roll please) Arch Linux (Ba-dum-tish!) Will blog about that shortly Stay tuned!! Related posts: ZTE Blade and CM7 missing feature Cyanogenmod ROM [...] Related posts:

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Android + using System Settings intents

tommieb — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 14:19:09 +0000

A big gotcha I discovered, suppose you want to fire an intent to bring up a System Settings screen like this And accordingly to the SDK, there’s a return code used to check the status of the Settings activity, which looks like this in the call-back code: Watch out! That condition will fail – for [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

A insight into a Android Game Developer

tommieb — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 12:39:03 +0000

This is by far the best blog posting I’ve ever read and the author explains a lot when it comes to producing a Android game called “Theseus and Minotaur”, from concept to production and the challenges along the way, such as using AdSense to market it, using Illustrator to polish up graphics, and a few [...] Related posts:

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Updated code for ZTE Blade FM Radio + CM7

tommieb — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 10:22:34 +0000

Hello again, I have updated the code on github to make it a daemon server that will handle the simple and intuitive command set to control the FM Radio. As from the previous blog posting, the code has been revamped. I have discovered a thing or two about the Android NDK that made be go [...] Related posts:

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ZTE Blade and CM7 missing feature

tommieb — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 23:41:53 +0000

Cyanogenmod ROM 7 is currently undergoing testing and receiving huge feedback, currently for the Orange’s San Francisco/ZTE Blade, there’s still a lot to be ironed out, one of the notable features inherently missing is the usage of the FM Radio. So I set about to dabble in it and lo and behold, a proof of [...] Related posts:

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Compiling kernel for Android – Part II

tommieb — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:05:12 +0000

Ok, to keep to the topic as per in the previous posting about how to compile the kernel for Android, I thought I’d share some scripts that I use myself to make life a bit easier…. ak_stg1 – (Android Kernel, Stage 1), takes in parameters to create a boot.img. ak_stg2 – (Android Kernel, Stage 2), [...] Related posts:

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USB Charge Commander

tommieb — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 14:18:46 +0000

I promised the forum members over at Modaco, to develop a simple application designed for the ZTE Blade/Orange San Francisco handset. As the title of this blog post, it is exactly that. A bit of background – I am constantly plugging in the cable into the handset for at most 2 minutes max, just to [...] Related posts:

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Compiling kernel for Android

tommieb — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 16:04:59 +0000

Here are the steps required to build your own kernel for your Android handset. All commands are italicized and precedes the $HOME variable to indicate the directory. Prerequisites: Linux box up and running that contains the full developers tool-kit such as bison, flex, automake, bash, gcc, git, curl, kernel sources of your choice, adb. Your [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Android Force Close

tommieb — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 14:22:33 +0000

There’s a site that is remarkably similar to the StackExchange site format, such as StackOverflow.com, called ForceClose, a lot of interesting questions that is geared and orientated towards the Android system. A Q&A site specifically for the Android platform. Incidentally, the acronym that is bandied around FC means exactly that, Force Close, a dreaded programming [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Cygwin 1.7.7.1

tommieb — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 00:16:29 +0000

Have went through the trouble in downloading cygwin 1.7.7.1, so have decided in spirit of open-source, I am willing to burn a copy of it into ISO format for burning on DVD for anyone. For a small donation to cover the postage to anyone, anywhere in the world, for every 3 euro donated, 1.50 euro [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Android development

tommieb — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 13:00:12 +0000

I highly recommend this site, plus the subscription is worth it IMHO – CommonsWare, where you get 3 books for a subscription for a year, in which you can download it and learn at your own pace… it’s not all that difficult, if you’re new to Java, well, there would be a learning curve. If [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Back and bad-ass

tommieb — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 21:02:12 +0000

Well, after taking a hiatus from the blogging sphere for a while, I thought I’d send out my New Year Greetings to all readers of this blog, sure it’s being a while but over time I will tell what’s been happening… Well, 2011 is here, this year is going to be exciting… there’s new things [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Gameboy Emulation in JavaScript

tommieb — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 19:08:50 +0000

Uh huh, yup, you’ve read that correctly. This is an excellent read and is very very interesting…it talks about using Javascript to emulate the CPU instructions that is found in the Nintendo Gameboy hand held console using the Zilog Z80 instruction chipset… That is a worthy article that explains everything very well and could form [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Building a superior Bada Community site – II

tommieb — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 14:36:44 +0000

Well, as I have blogged about this on previous occasion, I can now breathe a sigh of relief and voted to close this site proposal as the crew (Hi Wit, Nour ) over at badadev.com has come up with their own innovative site aptly named Ask Badadev, so thanks to GeekyBob, and the rest of [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Android, threads, message passing

tommieb — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 20:15:58 +0000

Recently I was tackled with a task to be able to put a thread into the background, and from the main UI thread, to be able to pass a message into the thread, this left me stumped…I knew it has to do with Message and Handler, the solution I came up with looks elegant and [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.