I’ve been playing around on the iPod Touch for a bit, not being able to justify the extortionate cost of an iPhone when there’s almost no network coverage outside major conglomerations, certainly not out here among the mountains, even though parts of the area have better broadband than London. Half a meg down the copper is fine for me as I don’t care to watch HD films on a postage stamp sized screen or even on the laptop. Call me old fashioned but I like to grab a single malt and lie in front of the telly with a DVD. iPlayer is about as much internet telly as I can stomach after a full day coding at the byteface. Life is about contrasts and variety of experience. (more…)

You’ve downloaded the Android SDK and want to get started but you also want to make sure you can debug in your favourite IDE, IDEA. You’ve installed the SDK into a directory we’ll call ANDROID_HOME and added ANDROID_HOME/tools to your PATH. So let’s debug. (more…)