Enjoyed being at the meeting with Saul Hansell

He recently came over from NYT to work for our company.
I really enjoyed the energy and passion that he has as well as the vision for the future of our product. Hope he will not get burned out too soon and will have enough leverage to implement his vision.

Following him now here http://saulhansell.blogspot.com.

Enabling PHP and SQLite on Mac OS X Leopard

just a bookmark for myself

PHP the Easy Way: Enabling PHP and SQLite on Mac OS X Leopard

Florida Trip - passing Georgia

On a way to Florida while driving through Georgia there are some places where the sulfur smell from swamps is quite strong. My daughter quickly learned this and on the way back, after 6+ hours driving through Florida, she started to ask me if we are in Georgia now or not. I answered, No.
While driving around Jacksonville, FL we hit the spot on the road where the sulfur smell from the swamps got pretty strong and I hear her voice from the back: "I told you, this is Georgia".

I was LOL :)

Android fun :)

Today was playing with all kinds of UI controls customizations. One thing I needed to do is to be able to draw the background shape around image where only right top and bottom corners are rounded.
After some research and trying different things (because that part of APIs pretty much missing any documentation), I found out that it looks like the left and right is messed up in the API. Here is what works :

<corners android:bottomRightRadius="0.1dp" android:topRightRadius="8dp"
android:bottomLeftRadius="8dp"
android:topLeftRadius="0.1dp" />

As you can see I had to use the bottom left radius to make the right corner round and for the rest of the corners I had to use 0.1dp , because 0dp just didn't work and made all corners not rounded.

Good luck ! :)

Busybox

Busybox is pretty useful set of tools for Android development as well:
http://www.busybox.net

Running Android tools on Windows 7 x64

Here is a link how to make it happen
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3917

Simple Things

Today I went to Halloween swim meet with my daughter. She participated in three different kinds of competitions. It was her first time of any kind of the "competitive" swimming.

The funny thing was that I was worrying, how she would do, and that she might get disappointed with results. etc., while she was just having fun swimming with her friends and not caring too much about results. She was excited and smiling after every race, no matter how she did.

I saw the happy human being today.


Happy weekend ! :)

Firefox strikes back

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