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Entries from October 2008

Android MapView Permissions and Prerequisites

October 26th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Apparently you need the:
<uses-permission android:name=”android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION”></uses-permission>
<uses-permission android:name=”android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION”></uses-permission>
<uses-permission android:name=”android.permission.INTERNET”></uses-permission>
in your manifest file. Wasted a day on that INTERNET one! I swear it was working yesterday without it, but today I was just getting a blank map grid.
Other gotchas about MapViews:

In the manifest file, those <uses-permissions> elements should come before your <application> element
In order to define a MapView [...]

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Abbreviated Summary of All Joel Spolsky Articles

October 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

I worked at Microsoft
I worked at Juno
I learned stuff about software
Buy my software

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Why Git Rocks

October 5th, 2008 · No Comments

I’ve been a longtime subversion user and before that Visual SourceSafe (ew gross), but at the new jobby job, it’s all git all the time. Being very used to the pretty awesome TortoiseSVN and ZigVersion gui clients for svn, I’ve been a bit hesitant to really dive into git, not really knowing what to expect [...]

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The Big Switch

October 4th, 2008 · No Comments

Well, it’s been a few weeks of working fulltime with Ruby, Rails, on OS X and I must say, I know so much less than I thought I did about OS X, Ruby, and Unix-like systems than I could have imagined. I have taken for granted that in the last seven years of experience I [...]

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