Together with the blog, I also revived the Oculus project. I put it on GitHub, to make it all easily accesible and include version control for myself. If you want to use or collaborate, you can find it at: https://github.com/derpflanz/oculusd Read more…
Well, not sure if I will be blogging a lot, but the bartblogtbeter site is in online again!
If you want to use ZXing for barcode reading, but do not want your customer to install a third party app. Or if you just can’t because the Android device you are using cannot connect to the Play store (as Read more…
If you have set your phone to debugging, but adb doesn’t recognise it, try switching the way it connects to the PC. I found that using “Charge Only”, or “MTP” caused the debugging to not work. Putting it on “PTP” Read more…
Every now and then, I check the state of affairs in Linux GUI development (well …. the last time was six years ago). For the last few years I have been developing on all kinds of different platforms, Windows .NET, Read more…
To quickly test your SQLite database while developing an Android app, it can be useful to use the sqlite3 command line command to query the database. However, it is not easy to get to the SQLite file: you cannot just Read more…
The last months, qTranslate was blocking my updates, because it gave me the message it will break my site. Too bad, the developer/maintainer of qTranslate seems to have abandoned his project, or he couldn’t find the time anymore. Luckily, thanks Read more…
Started working with Python, which is extremely easy and a joy to work in. It also has great libraries and tools you can use. So, also started using CherryPy to power the XML API I am working on. While debugging Read more…
Case Study In part 1 we defined our limits and the requirements needed to replace PHP. We gave Python a first look and found out it is quite easy to use it in Apache. To get a good feeling of Read more…
Introduction Yes, you read it correctly. After years (approximately 13) of using PHP as my go-to tool for web development, I decided to ditch it. It was becoming more and more of a nuisance and when I got more into Read more…