words on sand

from shri at drone-ah.com

16 Feb 2011

Hope

262 words, ~1 min read

a tiny little window of friendliness …
overflowing with hope and dreams,
of just a possibility,
a possibility …

01 Jun 2010

rich:calendar and the onchange event

55 words, ~0 min read

I wanted to trigger some validation based re-renders with the rich:calendar component. I was scratching my head for a …

26 Apr 2010

Android - Parcel data to pass between Activities using Parcelable classes

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Passing data between activities on android is unfortunately, not as simple as passing in parameters. What we need to to …

25 Apr 2010

Android - Managing Global Configuration

347 words, ~1 min read

The Problem

Accessing preferences / configuration / settings from Android is actually pretty straightforward as long as …

21 Apr 2010

Linux bulk search and replace

104 words, ~0 min read

Doing a bulk search and replace across a set of files is actually surprisingly easy. sed is the key. It has a flag - i …

19 Apr 2010

Android - Multi-line Select List

342 words, ~1 min read

It turns out that it is surprisingly easy to add a multi line select list to the UI. There are four main parts to it. …

18 Apr 2010

Synergy with Linux Server & Mac Client

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I  borrowed a mac to try and play with iPhone development. I already have a linux box (running Ubuntu 9.10). Anyone who …

15 Dec 2009

Perfect Linux

487 words, ~1 min read

According to Brian Lunduke { Ubuntu 9.10 is almost perfect { and I concur.

Being a bit of a purist, I ran Debian {for …

15 Dec 2009

Twitter is better

262 words, ~1 min read

A little while ago, I wrote about my pet peeves to do with twitter, and while they probably didn’t read my …

23 Mar 2009

Vista Guest, Linux Host, VirtualBox, Host Networking - Bridge

156 words, ~0 min read

One would think that it would be straightforward, work off the bat, or at least have some reasonable documentation. …