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Category Archives: development
Android Development Environment on Ubuntu 12.10
As with many people I’m using the 64-bit version of Ubuntu 12.10. This means that when you install the various pieces you need for android development the tools found in the platform-tools directory won’t run. They give the simple error … Continue reading
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Mainstream Fail
Making changes to a large project isn’t an easy decision and for a company like Google I’d imagine that such decisions are debated extensively, so when such changes are made I assume they bring genuine benefit. Having recently started using … Continue reading
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The First Casualty
“In war, truth is the first casualty.” Aeschylus Greek tragic dramatist (525 BC – 456 BC) You don’t have to spend long looking at information about wind farm developments before the truth of the above statement becomes apparent. Whichever side … Continue reading
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Django Auth Templates
I’ve just spent 10 minutes trying to figure out why the logged_out.html template I added for a website wasn’t being used. It was in the correct place (templates/registration) and the login.html template alongside it was being used without any trouble, … Continue reading
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More Android Experiments
When I first looked at building for Android I followed the route that led me to install Eclipse and all the associated bits required. Having not done anything with Java for over 10 years it was a bit of a … Continue reading
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CouchDB & Media Metadata
I’ve been looking for a project that I could use to experiment with CouchDB for a while. I’ve found the concept of NoSQL interesting for a while and the way that CouchDB works seems like a sensible way to approach … Continue reading
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Media to my Ears
How many digital media files do you have? Hidden away in the darkest corners of the hard drive or on dusty external hard drives, there are probably more than you remember. All those CD rips, poor quality videos from the … Continue reading
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Concrete5
Over the past few days I’ve been looking at Concrete5 CMS. It’s an interesting system and appears to offer features that should make it far easier to use than other systems. The inline editing of content directly on the page … Continue reading
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One year on…
Just over a year ago I wrote This is not the Android you want and as I’ve been spending time with android again I find it a little depressing how little progress has been made. Google have made their publishing … Continue reading
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Android Kernel Debug
Recently I’ve been trying to trace some kernel debugging being generated on an android phone and the relative shortness of dmesg has been proving an issue. I figured there would be another way and of course there is… On a … Continue reading
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Building for HTC Desire HD
This is for a build in ~/work/android/system rather than the usually quoted ~/android/system. Start off in the usual way… sudo apt-get install gcc-multilib sudo apt-get install bison flex schedtool cd work mkdir bin curl https://dl-ssl.google.com/dl/googlesource/git-repo/repo > bin/repo chmod a+x bin/repo … Continue reading
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NoSQL
NoSQL databases have been around for a while and they offer a lot of attractive features. I’ve been meaning to have a look at CouchDB for a while and having some time I’ve spent some time over the last few … Continue reading
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