not idle
Prior to talking about the software, let us note a rather philosophical observation here. With G1, there is a (important, imho) paradigm shift when compared to (most) mobile/smart/whatever phones you used before.
Up to G1, mobiles were pretty much self-contained devices: the phone was where your data was stored. At best, the makers let you sync [...]
Finally, both of you readers, I’ve managed to steal a moment or two to proceed with this little hands-on experience report. The phone was powered on for the first time, and the network unlock code was entered, so here we go …
The Look
Well, let’s face it, G1 is plain ugly. Butt ugly. A (rather heavy [...]
If you’re using factory pattern and want to separate factory from the implementations (so you only load the implementation you need) I recommend using Jar Class Loader.
Here’s what the author has to say:
JCL is a simple Java API that allows loading classes from Jar files. It uses a custom class loader to [...]
These days – mostly in order to facilitate some cool three-d-geo-development for mobile devices – a fine specimen of a G1 phone has found its way into our little X-Kolkhoz.
A strange beast it seems at a first glance, and what else is there to expect, since – according to what it says on the rather [...]
It is about a month ago, public version of Gaea+ was released. Since that, website traffic is growing (statistics from google analytics).
What is Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF)? “MSF is a deliberate and disciplined approach to technology projects based on a defined set of principles, models, disciplines, concepts, guidelines, and proven practices from Microsoft.” In other words MSF provides specific how-to guidance to manage people and processes in an IT infrastructure or development lifecycle. It helps teams [...]
When we look at security of laptop computers, many people think that encrypting their hard drive will be enough to protect their data in case a laptop gets stolen. Basically that is much safer, than if it is not encrypted.
When laptop is stolen even encrypting hard drive may not save your data from thief’s eyes. [...]
Last days of the year 2008 brought us CCC in Berlin again. 25th Chaos Communication Congress “Nothing to hide” was happening from 27-30.12.2008. And like always it presented interesting topics.
Here are some that are really worth seeing:
Dan Kaminsky talked about DNS again. As usual he made a cool presentation. He described the problems with [...]