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Colouring code comprehension
I’m working on some particularly dense javascript, and it has really brought home to me the difference between a good text editor and a great text editor. Eclipse is generally pretty good as an...
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Saturday morning disgruntlement
Two things annoyed me this morning. Thing 1. Google. Specifically, Google Apps. Since switching to Google Apps, it has rapidly become an authentication bane of my life. Wanna share your Google...
View ArticleOver the Air 2010, 2011
It seems I didn’t blog about Over the Air back in 2010, beyond referencing the phone I won for my hack. That’s pretty poor. I don’t appear to have blogged much about any of the previous events either,...
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Droidcon London 2011
I’m off to #droidconuk tomorrow and Friday, for a couple of days of Android immersion. Should be a useful benchmark for the adoption rate of Android by developers … looking forward to some interesting...
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MySQL on Lion with Homebrew
This was non-obvious to me, so I’m documenting it here. There are several ways you can get MySQL up and running on Mac OS X Lion (see for example Rob Allen’s Setting up PHP & MySQL on OS X 10.7...
View ArticleMessage queues with RabbitMQ
Some brief notes from playing around with RabbitMQ. This is also a handy opportunity to further test the GitHub to WordPress integration before I post some longer code! Things are easy on the Mac since...
View Articlegcc and homebrew on Mountain Lion
I’m trying to get B2G built, and one of the steps on OS X is to install gcc (this install is all automated in the bootstrap script). I am on a (relatively) clean install of Mountain Lion. Unfortunately...
View ArticleFirefox OS build on Mac OS X Mountain Lion
I’m trying to get Firefox OS built on Mac OS X Mountain Lion. It’s not going too well! I checked out the code and ran ./config.sh emulator, then I ran ./build.sh and waited. After a while, I got: 25...
View ArticleScala sbt
If you’re following the Coursera Scala course, you may come across this problem during the example assignment: cd example sbt > console [error] java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException:...
View ArticlePhoneGap and Android on Windows
It seems there’s quite a lot of confusion on how to get up and running using PhoneGap for Android development on Windows. There’s a Getting Started with Android guide which is comprehensive, but...
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ASP.Net with Docker on Mac
I tried a ton of different ASP.NET on Linux / Docker / Mac tutorials, none of which worked for one reason or another. Then I fixed it. The closest I got was Deploy ASP.NET 5 Apps to Docker on Linux,...
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