To anticipate and prevent
I should have posted this sooner, but I forgot. My Serendipity to WordPress post importer (v1.4) has been upgraded! Simone Tellini took it (in the spirit of which this software was originally released, way back when) and updated the importer to support nested categories (and of course re-released it). To make sure the software continues…
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Since I’ve gotten onto my Arduino kick, I figured I should get some proper reading material on the subject. One of the first I saw was Getting Started with Arduino by Make: Magazine. Since “Getting Started” is exactly what I wanted and I rather like most of what Make does, I bought and read the…
One of the first things I did after getting my shiny new Nexus One was to plug it into my computer for development. After all, development was the entire reason I bought this very expensive new toy (well, it might not be the only reason, but it is the one I use to justify actually…
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This is one of those errors that popped up on me that initially left me baffled and amused. Once you look up and find out the explanation for “Activity has lead window”, it makes sense, but the idea of an application having “leaky windows” is still quite hilarious to me (unlike memory leaks, which suck…
A lot of the code I post and tech bits I fix are things I find while working. Sometimes I can’t explain the bigger picture, sometimes it simply doesn’t matter. Most people don’t care about the why, but simply the how (to fix something) like the “Cannot Save Attachment” message in Outlook 2007. But with…
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Recently I was messing around on Android with the BrowserView’s and BrowserIntent’s. When trying out one of the examples, I got: InetAddress: Unknown host www.google.com throwing UnknownHostException Every URL I entered, it displayed a “Page cannot be found” type error. At first I thought it was the site I was trying to use, but obviously…