Exploration of Thought

It's been awhile since my last update, and there's good reason for this. There's a ton of great stuff happening.But before I get to that, lets get to the real topic at hand. I've told my close friends and colleagues that I'm moving, so now its time to tell everyone else. To where you ask?…

I'm working on a client project and I ran into an issue when I needed to run a maven task from within IntelliJ. When I would run it, it would return the following error.

I work with JSON data A LOT when working with REST services. Usually when hitting these API endpoints the data is downloaded and opened up by my default text editor, TextMate. When I open this up, the data looks like this ...

There comes a time when you need to show a EULA to your users of your Android apps. Doing this is pretty easy if you decide to ALWAYS show it when the user uses your app. However, that's beyond annoying. The best case scenario for displaying a EULA to a user would go like this...

A friend of mine who is involved in a local start-up here in MPLS was talking to me about how his start up is building their web api. Their start-up is a mobile application that has a back end data store that they're communicate with via a REST-esque API build using ASP.NET MVC, hosted on…

I've been using git-svn for about 6 months at one particular client without any major issues (we've our fair share of small nuances here and there though). However, I did run into a weird problem recently.

Why MonoTouch I'm working on bringing some of my works over to the iPhone and iPad and in doing so I decided to use MonoTouch (since I have a strong .NET background and absolutely no Objective-C experience other than some evaluation work). The long term plan is to master MonoTouch, which will familiarize me with…

I'm totally floored right now. My book hit and stayed at #1 in sales in ALL OF PROGRAMMING BOOKS for last week on Nielsen BookScan. Maybe it will do it again! Hopefully it will! What does that mean? It means that my book was the best selling book in the Programming Books category, ranking higher…

Recently Google Updated their SDK to Version 9 and along with it came some other changes. One such change is the movement of the USB Driver installation location. New USB Driver Install Location On page 50, on Figure 2-25 of the Android Application Development For Dummies book I reference the USB driver to be inside…

If you have a copy of my Android Application Development for Dummies book, then you might run into an issue with a recent update to the SDK. The recent SDK, moves the adb executable (Android Debug Bridge) and Eclipse will need to be updated in order to reflect the proper placement of the new ADT…

I've been using Git for almost two years now and I personally feel it is the superior version control system. One complaint I did have when I first started using it was that the log command had horrible output for readability. Examples speak louder ... the command: Outputs this (click for larger): While you can…

Wow! That was fast! My publisher (Wiley) recently contacted me and informed me that my book, Android Application Development for Dummies, is already having to be reprinted for a second run. That's amazing considering the fact that the book has been out for less than a month! (Release Date: Dec 7th) A big thank you…