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Android fragmentation - Five thousand variations 4 Jul 2012 | 03:17 am
Everybody talks about Android fragmentation. I have felt it. Inside me. It hurts. For many apps, fragmentation isn't such a big issue. If you're building an app for a summer festival, all you need to...
Android permissions or the Mobclix Catastrophy 28 Feb 2012 | 12:25 pm
An innocent fallback network As regular readers may know my LED Flashlight HD app has had quite a tremendous success on the Android market. On this day it passed the 5 million download mark. Champagn...
Android permissions or the Mobclix Catastrophy 28 Feb 2012 | 07:25 am
An innocent fallback network As regular readers may know my LED Flashlight HD app has had quite a tremendous success on the Android market. On this day it passed the 5 million download mark. Champagn...
Optimizing the world. Or why I believe Steve Jobs was Batman. 12 Oct 2011 | 01:50 pm
As a programmer I learned the basics of optimization: if you're going to need the same data a million times, prepare it once then reuse it. Or in other words if you do things once instead of a million...
Optimizing the world. Or why I believe Steve Jobs was Batman. 12 Oct 2011 | 06:50 am
As a programmer I learned the basics of optimization: if you're going to need the same data a million times, prepare it once then reuse it. Or in other words if you do things once instead of a million...
Using instance cache in AppEngine instead of 'free' memcache really reduces costs 10 Sep 2011 | 06:48 am
In my previous post about Google's AppEngine horrible price hike I jokingly concluded that to optimize my apps in order to make appengine costs reasonable again the only solution would be to remove an...
Using instance cache in AppEngine instead of 'free' memcache really reduces costs 10 Sep 2011 | 02:48 am
In my previous post about Google's AppEngine horrible price hike I jokingly concluded that to optimize my apps in order to make appengine costs reasonable again the only solution would be to remove an...
Optimizing your AppEngine website for the new pricing: How to get from 422 $ per month back to free in a few lines. 2 Sep 2011 | 03:57 am
There has a been a lot of badmouthing about Google's AppEngine new pricing. Basically it went from being rather cheap to just incredibly expensive compared to normal hosting. Each of my instances (usi...
Optimizing your AppEngine website for the new pricing: How to get from 422 $ per month back to free in a few lines. 1 Sep 2011 | 11:57 pm
There has a been a lot of badmouthing about Google's AppEngine new pricing. Basically it went from being rather cheap to just incredibly expensive compared to normal hosting. Each of my instances (usi...
Average rating of 4.5 stars for a flashlight ? Checked. 22 Aug 2011 | 08:31 am
Here's a small follow-up on my post on increasing the number of reviews. As I stated before this has been a huge success, particulary for my Battery HD app. Here I'll share the results I got from my L...
