I’ve been going over Marko Gargenta’s Learning Android book, published by O’Reilly Media; in it he goes through the creation of a basic Twitter app. After struggling through the first example, I discovered two things: The examples in the book was using deprecated calls in the JTwitter library. Twitter had moved away from simple authentication [...]
I recently decided to jump into some Android development in my spare time. Using Eclipse as my IDE, I already have most of the Android SDK environment set up on my machine. Using the Android SKD and AVD Manager, I decided to install a year’s worth of SDK updates. Unfortunately, a few minutes after the [...]
I’ll be traveling to London, UK for PLASA 2011 for two weeks in September. This is a big problem for me because that means I’ll miss an entire Sprint’s worth of development at the Toronto office. I wanted to keep apprised on developments through e-mail, the internal office websites and JIRA; so I asked for [...]
In a previous post, I mentioned that CollabNet’s Subversion Edge uses the Python 2.5 package by default. If your current computer has applications which rely on a version that is not Python2.5, you may experience a bunch of execution errors on runtime . I described a solution to this problem in a previous post “No [...]
At work I am constantly exploring and testing new collaboration platforms on my desktop computer. Currently, I have WordPress, Trac, and JIRA installed and running on my local network. As a team, we experiment with these products and evaluate their usefulness on a day-to-day basis. I recently installed Collabnet’s Subversion EDGE onto my machine so [...]