Name: Phil Haigh
Date registered: June 24, 2009
URL: http://www.surfsoftconsulting.com
Feb
04
Android has been taking a back seat recently (although that is about to change) as the new Formula One season looms and I’ve been comprehensively overhauling the fantasy game web site I’ve been running for over ten years, fantasy-f1.net.
Dec
14
At this year’s Devoxx, Google’s Tim Bray gave a thought-provoking keynote which covered several areas but what stood out for me were his comments around writing applications for Android. In summary his message was “give software away and sell a service” and “make it social”. Giving software away and selling a service is a whole …
Sep
22
Having published a first Android application Audio Clock in the Android Market my attention has turned to developing something new. Audio Clock was simple but this new application is on a whole other scale.
Jun
19
Having struggled, cursed, been derided by iPad owners and got really irked over the synchronisation issues with the Galaxy Tab 10.1 I have spent some more time in the last few days looking into the problem in more detail. I was prompted to do this by the arrival, over the air, of Android 3.1 – …
May
16
At Google I/O this year I was lucky enough to receive a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, one of the latest Android tablets to ship with Android 3.0 (Honeycomb). However, being a Samsung item it does have its downsides. Samsung for some reason known only to themselves have endowed it with Samsung Kies, a synchronisation utility …
May
05
As a habitual Maven user I’ve got used to the ease with which I can run through a build and test process and get a deployable artefact out at the end of it. I’ve been playing with Android for some time, and now I’m ready to do some serious development it is only natural that …
Jan
08
I recently discovered that my MacBook Pro had developed a fault whereby the DVD drive would read any DVD I cared to insert but would no longer accept blank DVDs. This turned out to be a known issue with certain brands of drive that Apple use, or just dirt on the lens (take your pick …
Nov
12
When Android 2.2.1 was pushed to my Nexus One I was reluctant to install it immediately. So I googled for release notes and found none. This did nothing to soothe my (perhaps irrational) concern that I was upgrading to an unknown quantity. Eventually I upgraded and of course there were no dramas. My curiosity however …
Nov
10
Being a regular Eclipse user I’ve been somewhat slow to learn all of the really useful keyboard shortcuts. Hunting around for a cheat sheet the only one I can find is this one from the Eclipse-Tools project on sourceforge. The only downside to this fairly comprehensive cheat sheet is that it appears not to have …