Nexus One Froyo build number
I have been wondering what the actual build number of Froyo (Android 2.2) on Nexus One was. It is the FRF number that you can read under “About phone” in…
writing
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2010
Ubuntu annoyances
For some strange reason, the Ubuntu people decided that the latest release should mimic Mac OS as much as possible. The default background is now purple…
Fruits of the iPhone posts
An avid reader of this blog (i.e. no one) will have noticed that lately there have been quite a few posts about iPhone development. Well, I am pleased to…
Modal view controllers and recursion causing stack overflow
Ironically, it was this post at Stack Overflow that helped me solve this problem! There appears to be a bug (either in the iPhone SDK or my understanding of…
OpenID and iPhone apps
I am trying to find an OpenID implementation that is similar to the way that Facebook Connect’s login mechanism works on the iPhone. I can’t find anything…
Skype for Mac Mood Message Feed
Why isn’t anybody writing about the “Mood Message Feed” in Skype for Mac 2.8? This version appears to have been out for a month now. I Googled it to see…
Why is the escape key labelled "esc" on the Mac keyboard but as a circle with an arrow pointing out of it in menus?
I have reluctantly bought a MacBook Pro so that I can develop iPhone applications as well as Android, and was searching for this mysterious key so that I could…
Entity Framework 4 many-to-many
I had another problem with EF4 today. Code that worked fine in .NET 3.5 didn’t work after I regenerated the entity model using Visual Studio 2010. I found an…
1..0 or 1 relationships in Entity Framework
I came across this problem today when migrating a project from VS 2008/.NET 3.5 to VS 2010 RC1/.NET 4.0. I don’t actually think it’s a VS 2010 thing, though. I…
Width of grouped UITableViewCell
I am working on some iPhone development at the moment. I have built a cell for a UITableView in Interface Builder. The cell was a bit too wide for the cell in…
Tab bar and navigation bar on iPhone
Today I am starting to write my first iPhone application. I have finally finished reading Neal Goldstein‘s book iPhone Application Development for Dummies…
SEO is important, even for a unique name
My company is called Zemobo. It has a web site, which is currently a very basic portfolio and has a little bit of information about the free Android…
2009
Using the Android accelerometer
I am building my first real Android application. It is a Hindi flashcards application. It works already (in that it will shows the different Devanagari…
PNGs in IE6
My preferred way of dealing with IE6’s limitations on transparent PNGs is to use conditional comments and the AlphaImageLoader filter. This is because it…
Annoying spacing problem with Flash <object> tag
Not sure if this is SWFObject-related or Flash-related or tag in general-related, but I was working on a page today and in Firefox a 4 or 5 pixel gap…
Sky+ in the UK when you’ve only got one satellite feed
So I recently moved flat and used to have Sky+ in the old flat. Sky+ (which is the same as MySky in NZ) needs two feeds from the satellite dish, so you need a…
AJAX history with ASP.NET AJAX 1.0
If you are still using the original ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 release, you may be looking for a way to use .NET 3.5 SP1′s “history” feature of the ScriptManager…
Removing the Send Feedback link on Windows 7 Beta
I accidentally keep clicking on the Send Feedback link that appears next to the minimise button on Windows 7 Beta. It actually appeared in the Windows Vista…
Google has a new favicon
In an attempt to get to the top of people’s blog search results (give me a job, I’m a web developer in London), I thought I would point out that Google has a…
Making your own virtual machines for VMware Player
VMware Player is a free, cut down version of VMware Workstation which enables you to run virtual machines created with other VMware products. But you can’t…
2008
VMware Server 2.0 - using your own SSL certificate
The default installation of VMware Server 2.0 uses a self-signed certificate for the web-based management console, VMware Infrastructure Web Access. (Notice…
Cloning VMware machines loses network connection
I have been setting up a whole swag of virtual machines to do my bidding. Ideally I would use ESXi but it doesn’t support my choice of server – my old laptop…
Phone + Fire Eagle + Google Maps = high tech spy tracking system
Fire Eagle is a service from Yahoo! that gives you access to location information. It’s not very sophisticated. You tell Fire Eagle where you are, and then…
Facebook lost some data
I’m not sure how widespread this was, but I got an email from Facebook saying: Subject: Please reset your email notification settings. Unfortunately, the…
Windows Azure Development Storage with real SQL Server
I don’t have SQL Server Express, I’ve got the real deal. Development Storage for Windows Azure assumes you are using SQL Server Express with the instance name…