I’ve been a little quiet of late due to me starting a new job as Head of Platform Development at Brighter Option. We build advanced management tools for Facebook advertising campaigns so I’ve very busy writing lots of c# code to talk to the Facebook Graph API. I’ll be writing about what I’ve learnt during… [Read more…]
September 19, 2011
My latest Android app that I wrote for Shhmmoze has just been released, whoop whoop! Read more about the release here: http://blog.shhmooze.com/2011/09/19/show-some-android-love-at-your-next-conference-or-meetup/ And download the app here: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.shhmooze.UI
August 19, 2011
Here’s a couple of posters I made for Hannah’s Tea Dragons tea stall at the Big Chill festival. One of them – Elixir of Desire – introduces a new (a vintage french nude) lady into the Tea Dragons tribe. These colours aren’t quite correct as they were produced for print in CMYK but I still think… [Read more…]
August 19, 2011
I started running into trouble with Eclipse this morning when I was trying to build and install an app onto my phone. The project seemed to build Ok and I got no obvious errors in the console during packing but when ADB tried to push the .apk to the phone I kept getting this error… [Read more…]
August 16, 2011
In my last article I talked about SQL Lite inserts on Android being optimised using a transaction. Another method I’ve found that speeds things up dramatically is to use compiled SQL statements with the SQLiteStatement class. I can’t believe I hadn’t used these before, I actually think working with a compiled statement is much nicer than working with the standard SQL… [Read more…]
August 16, 2011
I’ve been working on the Shhmooze Android app. When the app is first run there are quite large amounts of data that need to be downloaded and persisted to an Android SQLLite db on the device(around 200o records). I was running into an issue where these writes to the db were taking a very long… [Read more…]
July 14, 2011
I’ve just finalised and sent to print the first bottle label for our new Tea Dragons Herbal Infusions drinks range so I thought I’d share it. The (very tasty)drink is called Elixir of Love and the flavour is based on Rose and Hibiscus. We are going for an old-school look with a modern twist. So first step… [Read more…]
June 3, 2011
I’ve been writing a series of posts about how to use RabbitMQ with .net. I initially started using RabbitMQ so I could push live price feeds to my white-label Android trading app VisualSpreads. So I thought it was now time to write an article about how to use RabbitMQ with Android. As Android is Java you can… [Read more…]
May 19, 2011
In the previous two examples I built a simple .net application to demonstrate first two sections the RabbitMQ getting started guide in .net. In this post I’ll be looking at the third. Download the Source 3.) Publish/Subscribe The original article (in Java) is here:http://www.rabbitmq.com/tutorials/tutorial-three-java.html I’m going to take a slightly different approach to my previous… [Read more…]
May 13, 2011
I’ve only really starting blogging properly recently, I’ve been meaning to do it for years but I always seemed to be too busy or didn’t know what to write about. A little a while ago I decided to make a big effort to actually write some posts/articles that were useful. I can now be happy that is… [Read more…]
January 16, 2012
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