Ouch. The left side of my back hurts. Most probably due to sleeping sideways on the couch. I had a problem with my iPhone upgrading. My phone goes into recovery loop when i was upgrading it to iOS4. It couldn’t detect my iPhone as recovery mode driver. My windows OS keeps prompting new device found […]
Archives for June 2010
Secrets of a Rockstar Programmer
Book Description A rockstar programmer that is. Like Rob Johnson, Adrain Colyer, Tor Norbye, Joe Nuxoll, Carl Quinn and many more. Ed Burns interviewed these people who has made it big in the IT industry. I just finished reading the first chapter. He interviewed Rod Johnson, the CEO of SpringSource. His career path is interesting. […]
Cancer Man
Came across a printed copy of forwarded email. I used to receive forwarded emails regularly, the ones that are forwarded from a friend to another friend, to another and another. And it goes on and on. However, i don’t consider this particular one a chain email. It doesn’t have the “please forward it to 5 […]
Room clean-up in progress
I am currently in progress cleaning up my room. It was kind of messy and disorganized. Actually it still is right now. I have lots of things that i still keep. Text books, lecture and tutorial notes, computer game boxes and lots of other junks. I had kept all these junks in boxes so that […]
LBS and Google Maps in Android
Since i am going through chapter 9 of “Android: A Programmer’s Guide” (ISBN:978-0-07-159988-7) and i can’t get the example app working, I put that aside today to work on other examples of Location Based applications. The first is here: Using API Location I used the emulator to run this app and I get the output similar to what […]
Installing the example apps on my Spica
I don’t have much use for the emulator now since I have my Spica. However to install the application into it requires some changes. There is 2 parts. My Spica will by default allow me to install applications for Android market. So firstly, i have to make setting changes to my Spica itself. Go to […]
It is finally here!!
After months of searching, at last, I am an owner of an android phone!! Phew…it was a long arduous journey. My package arrived few hours ago. Everything looks intact and ready for action. I was looking for a device with a large screen and my budget is S$500. I had initially wanted the HTC Dream. When […]
He’s Just Not That Into You
I had heard this title a few months back and was intrigued by it. Since then, watching this movie became one of the many items in my to do list. But being absent-minded, I forgot about it until I came across the VCD when i was walking past the video store at Vivo city last […]
You were there
I love this song. If you dont already know, it’s by Southern Sons, a popular australian pop/rock band in the early 90s. Where were you at that time? I was a cute, chubby teenager in secondary school back then:). Here’s the lyrics. You should be able to find the music video in Youtube easily. You […]
Eclipse keyboard shortcuts
I ‘ve been using Eclipse for Android for quite a while now. There are 2 keyboard shortcuts that i have been using lately and find very useful when coding. The first is Auto format shortcut. This is available in editor’s right-click menu but press Ctrl + Alt + F is faster. This is a time […]
