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Presentation @ Techblog workshop 2 Jul 2013 | 06:44 pm
Presentation @ Techblog workshop about new Android design guidelines.
God rewards fools 5 May 2013 | 03:10 am
The way to get to the top of the heap in terms of developing original research is to be a fool, because only fools keep trying. You have idea number 1, you get excited, and it flops. Then you have ide...
Android Get metadata from AndroidManifest to your code 29 Jan 2013 | 05:24 pm
In your manifest’s application tag: android:name="user" android:value="kospol" /> usage: String user = getMetadata(this, “user); public static String getMetadata(Context context, String name) { ...
Developing with a SSD 11 Sep 2012 | 03:32 pm
“How to live with a SSD” or “This will save your life one day” crontab -e 00 10,12,18,22,2 * * * rsync -zr /home/kospol/workspace/ /Backups/workspace
Rename files to lowercase 27 Aug 2012 | 10:33 pm
As you probably now, your application’s images that are in the drawable directory must be named in lowercase. Unfortunately this is not true for the iPhone applications. A big portion of my job is to...
I don’t always… 6 Aug 2012 | 09:48 pm
I don’t always post photos of myself in my blog, but when I do, they are taken from Maria Nas
Entrepreneurship Quote 31 Jul 2012 | 11:31 pm
The Cult of Done Manifesto 29 Jul 2012 | 10:31 pm
The Cult of Done Manifesto There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion. Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done. There is no editing stage. Pretending yo...
Android vs Windows Phone 12 Jul 2012 | 03:51 am
I wrote an article for yesterday’s BugSense blog. Check it here! I have been into Android development for over 4 years now, since the very start. I started working with the 1.0 emulator, that red ro...
MK802, just great! 28 Jun 2012 | 03:37 am
Watching Google IO live streaming from that little android thing, priceless! Android MK802 just great. I really love that it is not just another cheap sloppy android machine, the developers actually...