I’ve been a full time Linux user for the past 6 years. In this post I’ll try to explain why I prefer the Linux desktop for doing all my software development work. I will try to stay as objective as possible about the other OS’s when making my comparison. Continue reading
Yesterday I attended Droidcon Belgium, the first Android Conference organized in Belgium at Living Tomorrow in Vilvoorde. This is my personal opinion on the event. Continue reading
When writing Android applications that heavily rely on networking it can sometimes be useful to inspect the network traffic going out and coming into your device. Especially when writing applications that implement networking protocols (like ftp, smtp, ssh, xmpp,..) the ability to inspect packets at TCP-level is invaluable. The following guide will show you how to do this on your Android device. Continue reading
I’ve had this idea for a new Android app in my head for a few days and today I finally took some time to implement it. Continue reading
As a new feature in my Android app for the belgian mobile phone carrier Mobile Vikings I wanted to display contact names in the call history instead of the number. After a bit of googling I found that Android provides a few contentproviders holding the data I needed (contact names and phone numbers). Continue reading
In one of my previous posts about Google Wave I mentioned a security issue concerning gadgets. I decided to do a little more research on this subject and to do some experiments on some publicly available gadgets. Continue reading
This is part 3 of my Google Wave developer sandbox review. Part 1 and part 2 were both an introduction to some wave concepts. In this part we’ll be taking a look at the Google Wave Gadget API by writing a simple rating gadget. If you don’t know what gadgets are or what they do, please read my previous post here. Continue reading
Two days after I got my invitation to the Ubuntu One beta and wrote a review about my first impressions I also received an invitation to join the Google Wave developer sandbox. As my Ubuntu One review was pretty popular (had about 1k pageviews the first day – thank you dzone.com users), I decided to write something down about my first Google Wave experiences. Continue reading
Yesterday I received my invitation to the Ubuntu One beta. I played around with it for a few hours and these are my opinions. Continue reading
