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This blog has moved 4 Oct 2010 | 04:52 am
I decided to transfer the blog to my own server. I’m going to leave all the content here for some time (there are websites with links to my posts already). For all the new content, however, please fol...
Android emulator and the SIM card serial number 7 Sep 2010 | 10:32 am
After publishing the post about changing the IMEI number, I was asked about modifying the SIM card serial number. Yes, it is perfectly possible, but requires a bit more investigation. In general, the...
Cherokee: first impression 6 Sep 2010 | 04:49 am
I’ve been using Apache for many years now, thus recently I’ve made a decision to try some of the “new” web servers. One of my hosts runs lighttpd for quite some time without any problems, so this time...
Django deployment, FastCGI and UNIX-domain sockets 30 Aug 2010 | 08:22 am
For various (mostly security) reasons I prefer to deploy Django applications as separate processes, with web server and actual application running under different UIDs, communicating with each other v...
Symbian: separate builds for different S60 editions 27 Jul 2010 | 08:12 am
Symbian’s build environment was never really my favorite one. Recently I was working on a project using different APIs on S60 3rd, 3rd FP1, 3rd FP2 and 5th editions. Typical Symbian project contains a...
Android’s HTTPS implementation slow under debugger 24 Jan 2010 | 10:52 am
Update: I’ve just discovered that the problem described below only affects Android 1.5 (which is the target platform for my project). Thus another solution is to use AVD configured with Android 1.6 or...
First Android platform build 19 Dec 2009 | 02:02 am
After playing with Android SDK for a while, now it’s time to try to build the platform. Unfortunately, Android documentation is not the best one I’ve ever seen, and some research is needed. Do they tr...
Android 1.5 and ListView’s choiceMode 18 Dec 2009 | 03:01 am
I’ve just discovered that setting the choiceMode attribute of the ListView element in the XML layout doesn’t work on Android 1.5. Comparing ListView.java from 1.5 and 1.6 releases reveals the followin...
Android platform guide 16 Dec 2009 | 12:09 am
After playing with Android SDK for some time, now I’m trying to make my own platform build and hack around a bit. Recently I’ve found the Android Platform Developer’s Guide site. It contains some very...
Android: IMEI number and the emulator 12 Dec 2009 | 04:20 am
Update: Please see my latest post about this topic. It is a common practice for mobile applications to identify the user by IMSI number (associated with the SIM card) or IMEI number (unique ID of the...
