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Missed placed your installation MSI and need to move Application to another machine? 27 Mar 2013 | 06:49 am
I was working away from my home office and my library of MSIs was not accessible. I wanted to install some software on a new machine NOW, instead of waiting until I got home in a few weeks. I remembe...
Android Low Energy Bluetooth or a feature that I would love to see in C# 13 Mar 2013 | 08:05 pm
Recently I have been playing with BLE on Android (Samsung S3). One of the issues is no exposed BLE API in the current version of Android. I said, exposed, because by reflection you can find them! Or a...
Are Android implementations lightweight/superficial? 24 Feb 2013 | 09:47 pm
Recently I found that two feature sets of Android to be seriously lacking. There is also a feeling that other features (motion sensors) are “punt ware”. The biggest short fall has been implementation ...
Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) Frameworks–knowing the price tags! 15 Feb 2013 | 06:08 am
I own Telerik’s OpenAccess ORM, I have consulted professionally on Microsoft Entity Framework, this week I had a long conversation with senior types on Hibernate issues. My experience with ORM or ORM-...
Facebook: Reducing Advertisements 2 Feb 2013 | 11:16 pm
This post arose from several friends asking for help because the number of ads that were appearing on Facebook almost made it unusable (too much to wade through for the benefit received). These are n...
Android getOrientation() 28 Jan 2013 | 06:50 am
I spend some time today trying to understand getOrientation() and found a few notes when I googled, but most of the notes left things fuzzier than needed. The author’s appear to know what they were t...
Interview: A question from when I did CS 101… 28 Jan 2013 | 05:55 am
Look at the following code: First estimate the difference of performance between OpPerf_0 and OpPerf_1? Write out pseudo-machine code on what will be executed with OpPerf_0 and OpPerf_1. This is a ...
Interview: Find Kth Largest in two arrays of ordered integers 27 Jan 2013 | 05:44 am
This one is actually an improvement over the usual proforma CS-101 questions. A possible solution is below One of the key item is whether the answerer address boundary conditions (which is half the s...
Interview: Find the Number that repeats the most times in a row in an array of integers 26 Jan 2013 | 05:41 am
This is another one of these not related to job functions questions that get asked. The solution is simple: It takes just one pass of the data O(n). The time could be shortened a little by seeing if...
Interview: Efficiently implement x^y for positive integers using basic operators. 25 Jan 2013 | 05:32 am
There are three solutions that come to mind.. The second solution is a bit of fun, because you are not using the power function but other math functions. Definitely efficient in terms of lines of cod...