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Twitter's account up...

Posted over 15 years ago

by chuacw
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My twitter account is up . My first twit? Selling off my iPod 4G 16GB :o)
Chee Wee's discoveries and tech blog

Ink Recognition - Nearly 5 years later...

Posted over 15 years ago

by chuacw
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Nearly 5 years ago, I wrote an ink recognition demo and placed it on CodeCentral . It was only recently that it was brought to my attention that someone...
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Enabling EMBED, OBJECT and PARAMS in Community Server 2007

Posted over 15 years ago

by chuacw
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Having finally had to enable embedding video into my blog postings, I found a way to configure Community Server to do so. Community Server has a 2 layer...
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From Delphi to Java: tricks in thread execution

Posted over 15 years ago

by chuacw
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In the two comic viewers , portions of the application retrieves images from the web in the background, using a thread. While coding up a solution, I remembered...
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Addicted to control?

Posted over 15 years ago

by chuacw
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The 9-month counselling course I'm taking is making me realize how I'm addicted to control in the things I do. Software development, troubleshooting...
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Marrying up counselling and technical support #1

Posted over 15 years ago

by chuacw
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One of the challenges of my job is that customers often do not provide enough data regarding their problems. What they do is describe their problem, and...
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Pearls Before Swine Android viewer

Posted over 15 years ago

by chuacw
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Using most of the techniques I've learnt and published previously on this blog, I've written a Pearls Before Swine Android application. Here's...
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HOWTO: Detecting and switching screen orientation

Posted over 15 years ago

by chuacw
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Make a call to setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE); to get the app displayed in landscape mode, and setRequestedOrientation...
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HOWTO: Removing the Android status bar

Posted over 15 years ago

by chuacw
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To remove the Android status bar, execute the following statements in the onCreate method before making a call to setContentView(R.layout.main); int flag...
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HOWTO: Removing the Android window title

Posted over 15 years ago

by chuacw
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Each Android window has a title. To remove it, in the onCreate method, make a call to requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE); before calling setContentView...
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An idea on unifying counselling and technical support...

Posted over 15 years ago

by chuacw
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An idea has been germinating in my mind on how counselling and technical support can be unified and married up. Will probably write up further on this...
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What's a thread dump in layman terms?

Posted over 15 years ago

by chuacw
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One of the rarer times when I have to translate computer lingo to English. When asked what's a thread dump, I responded: Me: A thread is a task given...
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C#, Delphi for .NET, Delphi Win32, Java and now Android...

Posted over 15 years ago

by chuacw
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Years ago, I took Lutz Roeder's C# implementation of Digger and translated it into Delphi for Win32 and Delphi.NET at the same time, and designed a...
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Linus likes Microsoft a little...

Posted over 15 years ago

by chuacw
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Linus likes Microsoft a little bit because of the fantastic song mixed by Microsoft Songsmith (the wording reminds me a bit of Borland's illfated ReportSmith...
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Constructing classes using class reference

Posted over 15 years ago

by chuacw
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Polymorphic class creation in Java and in Delphi: Java Delphi Class t[] = {Class1.class, Class2.class} Class LClass = t[x].newinstance(); type TCommonClass...
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How to test for inheritance: Delphi and Java

Posted over 15 years ago

by chuacw
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Testing for inheritance in Java and in Delphi: Java Delphi if (o instanceof T1) if o is T1 then
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Fidonet Nodelist 1991

Posted over 15 years ago

by chuacw
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Stumbled across a piece of history while surfing the web - Fidonet Nodelist 1991. In 1991, I was Fidonet 6:600/321. Strangely, I was under the impression...
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/etc/gps.conf

Posted over 15 years ago

by chuacw
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The GpsLocationProvider in Android reads /etc/gps.conf in order to determine the NTP server to poll. The default configuration is: NTP_SERVER=north-america...
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Still alive!

Posted over 15 years ago

by chuacw
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He's alive! The Doc's alive! He's in the Old West, but he's alive! - Marty McFly, Back to the Future, Part II These days, I'm busy...
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More Android code written - Chee Wee's SMS Manager

Posted over 15 years ago

by chuacw
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... Wrote more Android code in the previous 3 hours! Managing SMS automatically will be easier on the Android once I decide to publish my SMS application...
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My Screen Timeout Changer

Posted over 15 years ago

by chuacw
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Over the past few weeks, I found the screen timeout feature of the Android a source of frustration. Why did it offer 2 minutes, and then suddenly, 10 minutes...
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Android Screen timeout

Posted over 15 years ago

by chuacw
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Notes on Android internals Settings, Sound & Display, Display settings, Screen timeout is implemented in packages\apps\Settings\src\com\android\settings...
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My first Android application on Android Market

Posted over 15 years ago

by chuacw
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Spent nearly 6 hours last night and published my first Android application onto the Android Market this morning. The number of hours spent developing Android...
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No further entries...

Posted over 15 years ago

by chuacw
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I had accidentally closed the door on my hand last week while getting out of the office for a drink... No blog entries for the forseeable future, until...
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Displaying a modal dialog on the Android

Posted over 16 years ago

by chuacw
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After clicking a button, displaying a modal dialog on the Android is easy, by using the classes android.app.AlertDialog and its helper, android.app.AlertDialog...