Never Lock Your Cell Phone

I was walking out of Nautical Nellie’s, a restaurant downtown, and I guess my phone fell out of my pocket. A passing pedicab driver saw it and picked it up. He saw that the first number on my contacts list was as rival pedicab company across town (where I worked...

How to Dynamically Add Radio Buttons

Haven’t seen a tutorial for this that isn’t badly spelled and hard to grok, so I’ll try it. First, include the radio group widget and and declare one. You’ll also need LayoutParams and RadioButton, so include those as well....
A different kind of college course

A different kind of college course

  Bluetooth is not an easy thing to deal with, my instructor tells me. I didn’tĀ believeĀ him, and spent several fruitless weeks trying to get the Morse code Bluetooth chat app to work correctly. The nature of application development, especially when...

The agonizing process of choosing a new phone

I feel like a complete ass* for even writing this post. Well, my beloved Blackberry is dying. The charging port is loose and the camera sucks, and these are good enough reasons for a new phone. A bunch of things went into my decision. You should know that the 3 main...