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  • Android: Get the size of a custom view before display.

    When developing applications or simple games for Android where you are drawing or writing to a view, an issue arises upon startup of the view. In my case I had a game where I wanted to calculate screen tile size before the game view starts, but with most tutorials I had seen everything happened after […]

    April 22, 2016
  • Raspberry Pi GIT Server Notes

    Edit: I updated my RP GIT server and made more notes here. Here are my notes for setting up GIT on Raspberry Pi and using a Windows client (TortoiseGit). I’ve been using this little thing as a GIT server for around 5 months now and I love it. Here is the quick notes I took […]

    April 30, 2014
  • FXAA Shader Anti-aliasing in XNA 4.0 Winforms

    I had the challenge of trying to get some type of anti-aliasing in a project that uses the winforms method of XNA 4 that was being run on a laptop in REACH mode. My first step was figuring out a method to use. I found quite a few shader based methods available, but I could […]

    November 4, 2011
  • XNA 4.0 Red X Exceptions

    So I’m developing a windows application that uses XNA 4.0 embedded in a custom windows control. The main issue I have is when the code inside that embedded control errors out, the windows form and control result in a big red X across the control instead of stopping and going to the debugger so I […]

    August 19, 2011
  • Fixing WordPress Database Collation for Foreign Fonts

    I wanted to write Japanese in one of my wordpress blogs. The issue was that the encoding was in latin1. Here are the steps I used below. Keep in mind that this is a potentially dangerous modification where you could easily lose your data. Be careful and if you try this, you do it at […]

    July 3, 2011
  • First Android Application Released: River Water Level Stations

    Update: I gifted this code and basically the entire project with related software tools I had made to my friend who I was trying to start a business with after we decided to stop. The app is still active and available on the market under his account and not “CWSolver” anymore. A friend and I […]

    May 8, 2011
  • A little rant about Android SDK, Java, and Eclipse

    I don’t often rant nor say the work “sucks” very often. However as any programmer knows, some tools just frustrate you to no end. Java, the Android SDK, and the Eclipse IDE are something I need to use, but are frequently on my “sucky tools” list. I’ve used a lot of programming languages and tools […]

    May 2, 2011
  • Android SDK: String Arrays and Controls like Spinners

    Due to how the Android SDK and Java are setup it isn’t really a simple task to link up an array with a spinner control. I’ll go over some basics I just learned of the process. In this example I setup a setting control that will allow the user to select from a list of […]

    December 15, 2010
  • Android Eclipse Issue: Unparsed aapt error Unknown Android Packaging Problem

    I added my first menu to an Android application through Right-click on the project in New >> Other… >> (Android) >> XML file. After editing the file I tried running it and received this error: Unparsed aapt error(s)! Check the console for output. PROJECT_NAME Unknown Android Packaging Problem A google search brought up a few […]

    November 27, 2010
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