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Android Garage Door Opener, part 2
This is a follow-up to my previous post to say:
SO. FUCKING. AWESOME.
I got it all working. I now have an Android Activity (GarageDoorActivity) which interacts with an Android Service I wrote (InRangeService), letting me start and stop the service's wifi scanning task. The service gets the system WifiManager, holds a WifiLock to keep the radio ( Read more... ) -
Fun with Android
I've been having fun writing Android apps ( Read more... ) -
Tech mumblings
* Android SDK == even awesomer[1] than last time I checked it out. Too many apps I want to write.
* Eclipse ... seriously? You really need to use 850 MB of memory, you fat, slow piece of shit? Emacs is using 8 MB. Le sigh.
[1] if Apple can use the word funnest, I can use awesomer. -
Perl on App Engine
Fellow Perl hackers,
I'm happy to announce that the Google App Engine team has given me permission to talk about a 20% project inside Google to to add Perl support to App Engine. To be clear: I'm not a member of the App Engine team and the App Engine team is not promising to add Perl support. They're just saying that I (along with other Perl ( Read more... ) -
IPv6
I saw that this was open sourced today:
http://code.google.com/p/stubl/
I followed our internal instructions for using it and now I have IPv6 on my desktop at work. Any good IPv6 sites to hit? (besides the Great Experiment, which isn't quite SWF) -
Facebook QR Code "me"-link
Facebook's public profile pages don't let you include any links (notably: no XFN "me" links), so you can't setup a bi-direction proof that you own your Facebook account from another page ( Read more... ) -
yay protocol buffers!
Yay!
http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2008/07/protocol-buffers-googles-data.html
(and don't worry, I'm working on Perl support... :-))
Update: Join the Perl group if you're interested: techGoogle I/O Talks
All the presentations from Google I/O are now online ( Read more... )