Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-05-08

  • Getting invitations to write books. Hm… I am already writing. Need more time.. #
  • So.. hires farm tower next πŸ˜‰ β™» @nicolasgramlich: #XOOM #
  • Excited about the proposed moved of #Hudsonci to Eclipse awesome to see more resources poured into this great project. #
  • Just fixed up my machine by connecting via ssh from my #xoom #android tablet. Sweet. #
  • After a late night of proposal writing for #andevcon 2 Iam back to writing, coding and presenting for the rest of the day. #
  • I cant imagine android dev without @intellijidea and maven.. New in 10.5: Attach debugger to a running Android process #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-05-01

  • Back to coding after surfing for two weeks. Both things rock! #
  • Preparing to present about #android development to #vijug at @myvitp tomorrow .. you are all invited! #yyj http://goo.gl/iNTra #
  • Backup before going to Natty Narwhal #ubuntu .. excited πŸ˜‰ #
  • Use TestNG πŸ˜‰ to turn it off. β™» @donnfelker: Anyone know why junit requires test files to end in "Test" ? Any way to turn it off? #
  • Writing tests just makes me feel so much more confident that things actually work. #warmandfuzzy #
  • Join the #android #maven mailing list @topgenorth @donnfelker I am always monitoring in case someone needs help and I can assist. #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-04-10

  • So true… and weird. β™» @therealjorge: I'm not even a gamer, and Kristen Schaal is making me want the Xperia Play. Well done, Sony. #
  • Interesting. #groklaw should dig out whats in those patents.. β™» @retomeier: Patents and innovation #
  • Totally . you can make eg. gridviews dynamic too.. β™» @wbm: It seems that android apps scale up to tablet size much better than iPhone apps. #
  • AutoCompletTextView with Validator is pretty sweet for long lists of selection on #android in terms of easy to use and develop. Love it. #
  • Me too. Waiting for feedback first though. β™» @donnfelker: Thinking about submitting a talk to Android Dev Con II in November. #androiddev #
  • Anybody know if there is going to be #AndroidTo 2011 or #DroidCamp CA 2011? #
  • Totally agree! β™» @alsutton: imho @google and @googletv should be talking nicely to @romannurik about the #GoogleTV UI/UX job πŸ™‚ #
  • I wish I could just walk over to #bestbuy and get a xoom. Alas.. none in stock. #
  • Congrats β™» @gnome: 3 years in the making, 9 years since our last major release, #gnome3 is out! Read the announcement: #
  • Hacking into the morning. At leat concluding with success. Time for some sleep. #
  • About time! β™» @retomeier: Andy Rubin sets the record straight: #
  • Coding an #android example app without #roboguice to be more generic. Man, thats painful. #
  • Would be interesting to see the benefits of the twitter refactor thanks to JVM performance vs improved architecture. #
  • Getting myself a #xoom at #bestbuy in #yyj Arrived today #
  • So if you cut the build out of the testing process… how do you run it on a CI server.. @mojavelinux #
  • Looking into usb connection of devices on #android delivers a sad state of affairs. Do I basically have to go bluetooth? #
  • And of course #hudsonci too. β™» @jenkins_release: Android Emulator Plugin 1.12 http://dlvr.it/MsMzn #jenkinsci #
  • Thats been there for ages. β™» @jamescarr: Ah… google code now offers mercurial in addition to SVN? Nice… #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-04-03

  • Great example on how a remote api can empower the user #hudson #groovy http://goo.gl/5E3Oz #
  • After a whole bunch of coding I am enjoying some writing now.. #
  • Tried to wake up for the #hudson webinar. Failed… too much coding and writing until late in the night.. #
  • I will not be attending the #at amp;t #motodev webinar about the #atrix since microsoft live meeting does not work on linux or mac for me #fail #
  • Talking to @Macarse about #honeycomb support for #roboguice I need to get a #xoom Is it worth importing to #cdn from the states? #
  • Looks like my #roboguice clone work with #guice 3 .. #androiddev http://goo.gl/XECmj enjoy @Macarse @emmby #
  • Mercuria #hg is kinda like #git with #svn syntax #
  • Nice… I am writing too atm β™» @jyeary: Cleaning up my email and getting started on material for book. #
  • Fingers xed RT @edd We'll be notifying #OSCON speakers in early April. Pushed back date as we added OSCON Data & Java. ~1200 fab proposals #
  • Making some progress for automatic deployment of an apk to all attached emulators with the #maven #android plugin. Should be sweet.. #
  • Very cool! β™» @intellijidea: [blog] New concept of Android SDK in IntelliJ IDEA 10.5 #
  • Hiding the soft keyboard on #android in the right time but showing it in other can be a pain to manage. #
  • I think it should be made much harder for users to use old versions of a software. Auto update and make it hard to get an old version! #
  • The latest release of the #maven #scm plugin supports encrypted passwords in settings.xml. Sweet! #
  • Next #ubuntu verion getting close. Beta 1 today. I am going to do a complete reinstall to get rid of years of cruft. Should be fun. #
  • Love the xml config too! β™» @burke_eric: I've had it with Guice. Spent last weekend converting my Android project to Spring and loving it. #
  • Hahaha RT @brian_frank: It's April 2, which means we can all go back to believing everything we read on the internet. #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-03-27

  • Congrats! Well deserved! β™» @ericcloninger: Woohoo!!! @MOTODEV Studio wins Best Mobile Product at #eclipsecon Way to go, team! #
  • That would be great! β™» @romainguy: I'd like Chet and I to write the equivalent of http://t.co/BHiwVMg for #Android #
  • Dear oscar.. use snapshots! β™» @oscarsalguero: Dear @Google, please make the Android Emulator to lauch faster! :'( #
  • Wish I could be ..β™» @alexRuiz: Attending "Android Development with Eclipse" with @tornorbye and @droidxav. Really cool stuff! #EclipseCon #
  • Created an example app for third party integration with intents. #androiddev rocks #
  • Oh man… subversion is a pain .. let me just get it in and switch to git-svn quickly.. #
  • #vijug meeting about #aws coming in an hour or so… see you there http://goo.gl/qa3EA #
  • Pull request accepted and processed. I guess I am a #hudson committer now.. #
  • Great presentation about #aws by Jeff Barr at #uvic with large audience. #
  • Someone asked me about my cool 3D application switcher running on the #mac My answers its #KDE on #ubuntu ! #
  • Usage example pls β™» @romannurik: Implementing the Dashboard pattern? I just wrote this custom layout that can help: #
  • Interesting tidbit from #twig … google tv has chrome in it (although only v5), android still has custom webkit based browser #
  • Could the not-yet open sourcing of #honeycomb have anything to do with the #rim #playbook support for #android #
  • Awesome! Into Maven central shortly too! β™» @crazybob: Guice 3 is out! http://code.google.com/p/google-guice/ Way to go, Sam Berlin! #
  • Submitted a proposal for #oscon about #android One more to go. Fingers crossed πŸ˜‰ #
  • Workshop proposal about #android development aspects for #oscon submitted as well now. Time for a rest. #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-03-20

  • Awesome. Must update! RT @olamy: cool surefire 2.8 release has reached central repo (with this new feature ) #
  • Tying up various loose ends from #andevcon #
  • Chasing down minor bugs .. I will get you! Don't try to confuse me. #
  • In case you missed my late night posts and tweets with the #andevcon recap…http://goo.gl/yQauc http://goo.gl/nIxtI #
  • Nice. The #hudson release build is now fully automated and plugins go via Nexus OSS to Maven central. #
  • The dependency notification and change listener stuff in the new #maven integration for #hudson is awesome. I can think of a ton uses. #
  • I love how my app looks like in japanese. Good thing I know the app because otherwise.. #
  • You should read this if you blog.. or tweetβ™» @timbray: Things about Blogging: http://goo.gl/u6p4w (a last-decade-flavored piece) #
  • I wish I could go to EclipseCon even though I dont even use it.. #
  • Listening to #thisdeveloperslife just rocks. I am also one of those people that is interested in almost everything.. #
  • Find minor #hudson bug, fork repo, clone to local, fix bug, push, create pull request, 10 minutes later back to work. Thanks #github #
  • #maven uses convention over configuration is bad. Ruby on Rails does the same and it is deemed good. Same for #Grails #Gradle. Explain? #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-03-13

  • Travel to @andevcon commenced. Ready for an overdose of #android in the next days. #
  • I am at #andevcon in the lobby.. anyone wanna go for dinner a bit later? #
  • Got an awesome T-shirt to give away at my #andevcon presentation about #maven – IronMaven .. and a bunch of books. Join me on Tuesday pm. #
  • ah… cmon.. its all goodβ™» @I_Artist: finished coding the main database stuff, now adding XML parsing and data… Not all dev'ing is fun… #
  • .. Soon to come to my roboguice cloneβ™» @mcculls: Guice 3.0-rc3 artifacts are now on their way to Maven Central via oss.sonatype.org #
  • Great talk by @commonsguy at @AnDevCon so far. No fragmentation to see here.. move on. Its all working like a charm #androiddev #
  • Lets meet in the next break in front of synergy 4 .. turquois octopus t-shirt is me πŸ˜‰ @chuckwebster @robcz @sn0wshrew @chris_saunders #
  • Wow.. .. the #motorola xoom is a nice device. Me thinks I will need one. When can I get one in Canada? Anyone wanna sponsor me one? #
  • yes, fireside chat after as well β™» @sn0wshrew: Lightning talks at #AnDevCon this evening look kind of #awesome actually. #
  • According to @commonsguy the next #android version will be called Insulin. Yumm πŸ˜‰ @androiddev #
  • Great tips about adapting your #android app to take advantage of different platform features from @commonsguy #
  • The slides for #androiddev with #maven are up. Come to the presentation at #andevcon in the afternoon today! http://goo.gl/LhgG1/ #
  • Slides about #testing and continuous integration #ci for #android dev http://goo.gl/LhgG1 See the talk at #andevcon in the afternoon today! #
  • At the #motodev keynote at #andevcon Lets see if there is any interesting news.. #
  • Good insights into change of mobile for the enterprise by Christy at #andevcon #motodev #
  • Thanks! RT @topgenorth: @simpligility's talk here on testing and CI is probably the best one at @andevcon that I attended. IMHO. #
  • Interesting feedback about #svg not being a solution for duplication of resources as bitmaps. Thanks @kirillcool #
  • Great presentation about mobile ui/ux by @kirillcool at #andevcon #
  • Hope u liked it πŸ˜‰ RT @tylerschultz: Attending Manfred Moser's talk on Android Unit Testing & CI at #andevcon @robolectric #TDD #
  • Looking forward to that! RT @romainguy: At AnDevCon to talk about Honeycomb #
  • RT @chris_saunders: learning lots of pretty awesome and useful stuff here that you likely won't get from #googleio All the focus on Android #
  • Yesterday at #andevcon was AMAZING. My preso's and the fireside chats were all a huge success. Dinner with @droidxav and @ericcloninger too! #
  • Gettings some new ideas for cool additions to my apps from @michaelg at #andevcon #
  • Seems like my #roboguice clone is working fine with #guice 3.0 rc3 .. #android #
  • I sure am (causing trouble) RT @motodev: RT if you're at #andevcon watching Eric C's preso on localizing ur Android app 4 multiple regions! #
  • Writing my #andevcon recap blogpost. Watch for it later today (or tonight..). #
  • When do I cut a blog post in two because it seems long? Do people read more if there are two posts? #
  • RT @simpligility: When do I cut a blog post in two because it seems long? Do people read more if there are two posts? #
  • Nice… β™» @mcculls: starting code spike to get Hudson running on OSGi with plugins deployed as bundles #
  • #andevcon recap – first post live .. next one tomorrow. http://goo.gl/ZGlbN #
  • This one is a follow up to our discussion at #andevcon http://goo.gl/gs5V6 @chethaase #
  • As promised the 2nd part of my #andevcon recap. http://goo.gl/nIxtI #
  • Here is a bug I found on honeycomb with the xoom http://goo.gl/1QZFN @chethaase @ericcloninger @romainguy #
  • Also for you @romainguy RT @simpligility: This one is a follow up to our discussion at #andevcon http://goo.gl/gs5V6 @chethaase #
  • Next one then πŸ˜‰ Sweet RT @romainguy: @simpligility @chethaase It's something we wanted to do, it just wasn't a priority for this release. #

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AnDevCon 2011 in hindsight – Part 1

It was just a few days before the speaker proposal submit deadline that I found out about the AnDevCon Anroid Developer Conference and luckily my proposal got accepted. In the last those three days I met an incredible amount of people, put a lot of faces to contacts I already know or know of via twitter, blogs and more and also learned a whole lot of new stuff. Not to mention that it was very inspiring on a technical level and beyond and there are now a lot of more things on my todo and want to look at list πŸ˜‰
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