Gravenerd

• 2012-06-01

  As the clock passes into the wee hours of the morning I lay in bed worried. I’m not restless. The 7pm -> 12am nap has served me well. naps+1. As a coder I’ve spent countless hours making software that people use and people don’t. It hurts when you spend so much time making something that nobody uses. For example the zune.

  To prevent failure I’ve done something differently. I have written bots, computers, sentries to play the game I have written. Yes, the most basic of artificial intelligence. So even if humans do not partake in my video game, 3 lonely computers will. And it will be glorious.

• 2012-05-23

  Disable motorola listview crap

  Why do they need to mess with a good thing and make it look ugly?

  <style name="NormalListView" parent="@android:style/Widget.ListView">
      <item name="android:overScrollFooter">@null</item>
  </style>
  
  <style name="Theme.Override" parent="AppTheme">
      <item name="android:listViewStyle">@style/NormalListView</item>
  </style>
  

  @null is the key.

• 2012-05-07

  How Long is That Tweet?

  With twitters url shortening service your tweets are no longer the length you think they are. You type “Watching Modern Family on abc.com” and one thinks the length is 33. Nope. abc.com becomes http://t.co/12345678 So the tweet becomes “Watching Modern Family on http://t.co/12345678” and has length 46.

  The source code to count the actual length can be found here:

  https://github.com/snooplsm/twitter-text-java/commit/78285cacef286f31d091fb77aff88f8d19c19f00 It uses twitter’s twitter-text-java library and adds one method.

  Good luck.

• 2012-04-17

  Cancel Comcast Now!

  Packets are created equally. Comcast is segregating packets. We cannot stand for this. We must not stand for this.

• 2012-04-12

  Dialogs in Android are terrible

  And dialog fragments seem like even more of a nightmare.

  More later…