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Oculus is alive again
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 Read more…
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Bart Blogs Again
Well, not sure if I will be blogging a lot, but the bartblogtbeter site is in online again!
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Android and integrated ZXing
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 Read more…
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Android websnack: ADB doesn’t recognise device
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.
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Linux GUI development: A Sorry State Of Affairs
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 Read more…
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Query SQLite database from unrooted Android device
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 Read more…
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Updated WordPress thanks to mqTranslate
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 to the open-source-ness of the plugin, some brave souls have Read more…
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Python Snack: How to log only error to stdout in CherryPy
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 Read more…
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How to ditch PHP, part 2: diving into Python
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 what Python can do and how to build a Real Read more…