Name: Phil Haigh
Date registered: June 24, 2009
URL: http://www.surfsoftconsulting.com
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. Audio Clock had a minimal UI – in fact just some configuration views and a notification bar entry – and ran in the …
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 …