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Thursday, January 19, 2012 5:42 PM

2012 Begins

It has become tradition for the past few years that my first blog post of the new year is to thank Microsoft for being recognized as an MVP .  This year is no different.  Once again, I’m honored to be recognized by Microsoft for my contributions...
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Saturday, June 18, 2011 5:36 PM

Published My First Android Application!

While I’ve been playing around with Android development for a few months and I’ve started half-a-dozen various apps, I finally completed one and submitted it to the Android Market.  It’s a simple SQLite database app that contains the 2011 ferry schedule...
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Saturday, June 18, 2011 5:11 PM

Taking Android Emulator Screenshots WITHOUT Eclipse.

I’m working on an Android app and before publishing it to the Android Market , I needed some screenshots.  I assumed the emulator supported screenshots, but when I did a search for “android emulator screenshot”, most of the hits talked about how...
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Tuesday, March 29, 2011 10:01 PM

Android: Encapsulating Shared Preferences

The Android OS gives you a convenient way to save and load simple data (i.e. string, float, int, boolean and long) in the form of SharedPreferences .  The data is stored in a dictionary format that utilizes a key/value pair.  The “name” of the...
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Tuesday, March 29, 2011 2:18 PM

.hgignore file for IntelliJ IDEA Development

Every time I start a new project in Visual Studio, I almost always put it under Mercurial source control – even a small demo project.  If the project becomes serious enough, I’ll create a private repository in Bitbucket and maintain it there. ...
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Monday, January 31, 2011 4:50 PM

Welcome 2011

About this time last year, I wrote a blog post about how January of 2010 was almost over and I hadn’t done a single blog post.  Ugh…  History repeats itself. 2010 in Review If I look back at 2010, it was a great year in terms of technology and...
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