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Google giving away free Motorola Droid and Nexus One phones to "top" developers via Developer Seeding program
On 2nd March I received an e-mail from "Android Market Seeding" at Google. A snippet of the e-mail reads:
"Due to your contribution to the success of Android Market, we would like to present you with a brand new Android device as part of our developer device seeding program. You are receiving this message because you're one of the top developers in Android Market with one or more of your applications having a 3.5 star or higher rating and more than 5,000 unique downloads. "
SVN vs GIT - why change?
Here at work we use SVN extensively for all our Flex, .Net, Java and other projects. Always on the lookout for the next best thing I decided to take a look at GIT, the supposed SVN-killer.
Android service - why no onStop()?
For the most part I enjoy developing for the Android API. However, there are some very odd quirks that leave me pretty frustrated.
Flash Player on Android
... and I can't wait!
Motorola Droid - my first impressions
I've had my Droid for almost 24 hours now. There are some things I love about it and a few things I don't!
Moving to Media Temple
Today I moved a load of sites (including this one) over to Media Temple. The process has been fairly painless, although I'm still trying to figure out a coupe of niggles.
Developing PHP/MySQL sites on Windows with XAMPP
I've recently been working on a PHP/MySQL site. My usual development technologies are Flex/.Net over IIS running on Windows 7 so I had to find the best way of running a WAMP system.
Windows 7
Unless you've been living in space for the last 6 months, you'll be well aware that Windows 7 was released yesterday. I've been running Windows 7 RC for several months now and have been very pleased with it. There are a myriad of reviews on the web so I won't go into the dull details, but there are several points that really make Windows 7 an excellent operating system for me.
First Flash Builder 4 disappointment - Vector
When I read that Adobe were adding strongly typed arrays to the SDK, I was overjoyed. This functionality alone would save me days of time on every project, as well as allowing code hint to show me what operations I can perform on the array elements.
But alas, it doesn’t quite hit the mark.
Flash Builder 4
No doubt by now you’ve heard, probably even downloaded & played with Flash Builder 4. This is the new version of Flex, but Adobe decided to change the name to Flash Builder to avoid confusion with the open source version of the Flex SDK (or maybe to create confusion?!). Here are my thoughts on Flash Builder 4.
