Here are my notes about getting the Android SDK up and running using only the command line tools that come in the SDK.

The following worked for me on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS as of September 2011. I find Eclipse to be an excruciating form of torture, so I'm ...

Learning a new programming language each month this year was an ambitious goal. I didn't quite make it -- other things got in the way. I did manage to dip my toes into some interesting languages, learn some new things, and find a couple of candidates for diving deeper into ...

I often launch a long running command (e.g. a build or firmware upgrade), then wander off to another virtual desktop to take care of a few small tasks while I'm waiting for the command to complete. Unfortunately those "little tasks" tend to suck me in and I forget ...

Building an RSS reader must be some kind of rite of passage. Everybody has probably started one at one point. (Hey, I've done it too.) It seems easy enough, right? Unfortunately, it is pretty easy to get something sort-of working. Which means that there's a lot of junk ...

We've all been guilty of giving a shallow review: "Looks ok."

Given typical defect densities, any non-trivial design or code is going to contain some errors. Even seemingly trivial maintenance fixes are likely to be defective.

It's your job as a reviewer to find as many of these ...