So I’ve been fiddling around with ADT for a couple of hours. It’s possible to programmatically create layouts; i.e., an Android UI, but it’s not great. It’s way easier to define the layout in XML, and then bind whatever event handlers are required. Here we have a simple class: package net.waynekhan.blog.foo; import android.app.Activity; import android.os.Bundle; import android.view.*; import android.widget.*; import java.util.*; public class HWA extends Activity implements View.OnClickListener { protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.

This semester, I’m taking a course on Android development. So I’ll be posting a bit more Android-related stuff as we go along. I’m developing on the MacBook Air, so get comfy with the command line. To get started, grab a copy of the Android SDK. The Android Development Toolkit (ADT) bundle is pretty awesome. It comes with Eclipse and the plugin all setup already: http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html#mac-bundle. Unzip the .zip, so the full path be like: /Users/<YOUR-HOME-DIRECTORY>/Downloads/adt-bundle-mac-x86_64/.

Awhile back I decided to start using Springpad for bookmarking and notes. It’s worked out pretty well so far. Springpad has various ways of saving stuff; e.g. browser extensions, a bookmark-let, email but I was looking a way to feed stuff from Reader (which I love); i.e. without opening a new window, waiting for the page to load and then finally using either the extension or bookmark-let to save it to Springpad.

“Show, don’t tell” is an ad about some English enrichment class. So instead of saying that John is smart, show how smart he is: John asks thoughtful and insightful questions, solves problems others take awhile to delve into, and so on and so forth. Bonus: George R. R. Martin’s Game of Thrones version: “Words are wind”. References http://bullythebear.blogspot.sg/2012/12/show-dont-tell.html

Using regedit to remove Images, for e.g., HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Wallpapers

I needed to copy a 140 megabyte file from a Windows 2000 server. The only problem was that it didn’t support FTP (or SFTP) and I couldn’t download FileZilla Server since there was no network connection. I asked my colleague for a quick fix to this, and I can’t recall what he said, but suddenly I remember that I’d RHEL 3 (and Samba) and I could use Windows to map a Samba share.