Thoughts on mobile app crash detection and recovery
As I work on updates to my app, I’m happy to see it’s working quite well. However, inevitably there will be some boundary case that causes an exception, and as […]
As I work on updates to my app, I’m happy to see it’s working quite well. However, inevitably there will be some boundary case that causes an exception, and as […]
I’ve been giving some thought to the loss of the menu button (replaced – in a way – by the action bar) in Honeycomb lately and I have to say […]
Today I’ve been investigating an argument parsing bug in Android’s emulator on Windows (a bug that may affect all platforms). The version I’m seeing the bug was in the Android […]
With the latest Windows (Vista and 7) you can select “Hybrid Sleep” as a suspend mode. In essence, it provides the fast restart of your usual sleep mode with the […]
2015-05-28 update: Some of the old repos mentioned in this article are gone. You can check out Georgi Kolev’s repo (which has been recently updated) or my older one. Jens […]
If you click a Twitter link and it sends you to a Twitter login page, beware… look closely at the address bar and ensure you’re actually at Twitter’s login page […]
I have two online hosting systems I routinely use: one is a VPS that I use for things like secure proxy (mostly to secure insecure wireless connections) and otherwise keeping […]
I recently upgraded my Ubuntu installation from 10.10 to 11.04 and the samba4 package had big problems being updated or installed. I finally found a way to properly install it, […]
I read this CodeProject article today and found it quite enlightening with regard to the pitfalls of 64-bit programing for those used to 32-bit programming. It’s well worth a read […]
As I was updating this Wikia page, I added a section about how to create a simple logfile. I thought it’d be useful to expand upon the subject here. Sometimes […]
I decided I wanted to try out GCC using Cygwin rather than my usual Ubuntu virtual machine. In the course of this adventure I learned how to build GCC 4.6.0 […]