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 While Googling a little, it might be a good idea Lees verder…
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 is the case with many wearables), there is an extremely Lees verder…
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” made it work.
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, Android, Web. All these platforms are a breeze to develop Lees verder…
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 download it from your device, nor can you mount the Lees verder…
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 it throws out a lot of messages on stdout, of Lees verder…
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 C# and Java development lately, PHP started to really feel Lees verder…
When we launched Snøg Avalanche Buddy, we also decided to post the app on some winter sports forums. The reactions we got there were mixed, but mainly very negative. Part of the negativity was aimed at the safety of the app. In one case we were even threatened, that we Lees verder…
They oversimplify things, you can not pack a successful business / career / interview in 10 simple rules. If you could, everyone would be successful and not everyone is; hence they are nonsense. They are basically adverts, they often end in “Dude McDudeson is the author of ‘Be Branson overnight’ Lees verder…
For our Snøg Android app, I was browsing the web, figuring out how to add the UnlockBar I wrote to a Dialog, to create a slide-to-OK dialog. I reckoned this would be a simple case of extending the Dialog or AlertDialog class, build it and be done with it. Well Lees verder…