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Setting up a new development environment – Android

It’s been a long while since I was doing any personal coding projects and even longer since the last time I gave much thought to the development environment and tools that I would use. However, that time is upon me again…

March 25, 2012
Maemo: n900 to Android: HTC Desire Z

I had toyed with the idea for a while, and even written a post some time ago suggesting that my next phone would like be an Android one. A couple of weeks ago my n900 decided to stop booting at all, and I had to send it away for repair. While it was away I…

November 14, 2010
Maemo Application repository – A suggestion

One of the things which I like about Maemo is the way they arrange an application repository structure go with a development cycle of an app. Rather than simply writing something, and making it available in an appstore when you’ve made it ‘perfect’ there is a tiered structure.

August 14, 2010
Autonomy, mastery, purpose

I recently watched a really interesting you tube video about drive.

June 26, 2010
N900 portrait keyboard for Witter

Recently Nokia released the much awaited pr 1.2 firmware for the N900, and among the many bug fixes and tweaks, came the ability to easily rotate applications to portrait by hitting ctrl+shift+r, then closing the keyboard and rotating to portrait.

June 5, 2010
N900 IM style notifications from python

In the last couple of days I’ve spent several hours trawling the internet in search of an example of something I hoped would be fairly easy. How to trigger an IM/Email type notification event from python.

May 22, 2010
Why my next smartphone will probably be running Android – confessions of a Nokia fanboy

It’s no secret I am a huge fan of Nokia phones. Every mobile I’ve ever owned has been a Nokia, for over a decade no other manufacturer has come close when I’ve looked for my next phone.

April 2, 2010
N900 finding its way

The last week has seen some interesting progress for the n900. Firstly it was great to see phototranslator finally being availiable in extras-devel. I wrote a couple of weeks ago about having lost patience waiting and played with OCR myself.

March 21, 2010
Optical character recognition on the N900

This week I decided to spend some time playing with something a little different on my n900. Namely optical character recognition. This was inspired by a demo by Cybercomchannel called phototranslator.

March 7, 2010
A long overdue refactor

For the last couple of weeks, my time on Witter has been spent refactoring the code to be more managable. And hopefully allow easier addition of things like multiple account support.

February 27, 2010

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