Android - Parcel data to pass between Activities using Parcelable classes
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Passing data between activities on android is unfortunately, not as simple as passing in parameters. What we need to to …
Hi, and welcome. I’ve been writing here since 2007 - a cross-section of my life and my interests. The most recent thread is kraya , a company I built and ran for 15 years.
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Android - Managing Global Configuration
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The Problem
Accessing preferences / configuration / settings from Android is actually pretty straightforward as long as …
Linux bulk search and replace
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Doing a bulk search and replace across a set of files is actually surprisingly easy. sed is the key. It has a flag - i …
Android - Multi-line Select List
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It turns out that it is surprisingly easy to add a multi line select list to the UI. There are four main parts to it. …
Synergy with Linux Server & Mac Client
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I borrowed a mac to try and play with iPhone development. I already have a linux box (running Ubuntu 9.10). Anyone who …
Perfect Linux
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According to Brian Lunduke { Ubuntu 9.10 is almost perfect { and I concur.
Being a bit of a purist, I ran Debian {for …
Twitter is better
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A little while ago, I wrote about my pet peeves to do with twitter, and while they probably didn’t read my …
Vista Guest, Linux Host, VirtualBox, Host Networking - Bridge
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One would think that it would be straightforward, work off the bat, or at least have some reasonable documentation. …
mmmmmmm hhhhhh ddddd
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Krish , my little brother ;-) recently wrote about HD and I loved that article and agree with him wholeheartedly. Over …
Database Systems Compared
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My first experiences of a computer started with DBase III+ which is now dBASE , then went on to Foxpro , now Microsoft …