Parcelable, AIDL and IntelliJ

8 November 2010

If you’re using IntelliJ IDEA to build your Android apps (as moi does), and you try to create AIDL files to sit beside your classes (specifically for the Parcelable interface), you may notice your own classes magically disappearing at compile time. [Read More]
Categories: Code

Application, Service and AIDL

8 November 2010

Our demonstration Android application for Leedshack came in two parts – a user-facing application which the user could use to drop “markers” (points used to attach triggers to) and a background process which checked a remote web service to look for any triggers to fire. [Read More]
Categories: Code

Fizz Buzz

27 September 2010

I just read “Why Can’t Programmer’s Program” over on Coding Horror. Out of sheer curiosity, I googled “Fizz Buzz C#” just to see what some people had engineered. The idea of the “Fizz Buzz” test is to provide a starting point to prove you can write working code. Nothing complicated,... [Read More]
Categories: Code

Don McCullin Exhibition at the Imperial War Museum

13 June 2010

‘I am a professed atheist, until I find myself in serious circumstances. Then I quickly fall on my knees, in my mind if not literally, and I say : “Please God, save me from this.”‘ — Don McCullin We’ve just got back in from the last day of the Don... [Read More]
Categories: Photog
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