Archive for February, 2010

Multipart form upload on Android

18Feb10

Android 1.5 includes Apache HttpClient 4 for the purposes of making HTTP requests. Unfortunately HttpClient 4 (or the version included with Android anyway) doesn’t appear to support multipart form uploads.
As it happens writing a solution from scratch (at the HTTP layer that is) is pretty straight forward. The main challenge is understanding how the POST [...]

Bookmarks for 2010-02-14

14Feb10

The Pleasures of Counting by T. W. Körner
An interesting looking maths book. One to add to the “must read” list.
The Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steven Gary Blank
"Step-by-step strategy of how to successfully organize sales, marketing and business development for a new product or company."
Steak: How to Turn Cheap “Choice” Steak into Gucci “Prime” [...]

Identifying Performance Issues on Android

09Feb10

While application performance is always in the back of your mind when developing PC applications it becomes much more important when developing on a mobile platform. The hardware is slower and the user expectations are much higher.
This problem came to the fore for me recently as I was porting UPM to the Android platform. Since [...]

Bookmarks for 2010-02-09

09Feb10

Intel X25-M Mainstream Solid State Drive – 34nm
This SSD has been getting great reviews. A bit expensive but I think the performance gain would be worth it, especially on a laptop.
Patchbin – Share and collaborate on patches
An open source code review / code sharing app. Looks nice and simple. It’s written in Python and runs [...]

Bookmarks for 2010-02-07

07Feb10

Dive Into Python 3
One of the better, if not the best resource for learning python.
South Dublin County Libraries
Homepage for the Tallaght and other south Dublin libraries.
Android Source Code Git Repositories
Looking for the Android source code? This is the Android Git homepage with references to all repositories. Useful if you’re developing an app and would [...]