Blogs for 2008

Review of the HTC G1's Hardware

November 14, 2008

Since the G1, running on Google Android, is so new, I’ll discuss some of the other points about the phone for anyone interested. I previously discussed the features that sold me on the G1. Everyone is very excited about the Android operating system, however, there have been serious misgivings about the HTC G1 hardware that is running this first generation Android.  continue ...

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android

The Android Marketplace: A review of cool apps

November 12, 2008

The marketplace is coming out with really awesome apps. A lot of the popular apps for the iPhone are also available for G1. These apps take advantage of the internet connection, Google maps, GPS and tilting detection, making some really innovative stuff. They are all rather new since the G1 only just came out - but if they are great already, they will be awesome in a year!  continue ...

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android

Google's RC30 update for the Android was not to prevent Jailbreaking, but to fix a critical bug

November 9, 2008

Last week people discovered a means to access Android as a super user, effectively allowing them to “jailbreak” the phone. Saturday morning, RC30 was pushed out that closed this ability to access the phone as root.  continue ...

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android

Google Android vs iPhone: Android is better for Google users

November 8, 2008

I am going to go off topic to discuss the G1 phone that runs Google Android. I figure web enabled phones are of particular interest to the web development crowd :)

I have had both the G1 and iPhone for one week each. At the end of a week with the iPhone, I returned it with much disappointment. With one week of the G1, I am just ecstatic.  continue ...

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android

A newbie's guide to contributed Drupal modules

September 28, 2008

Back in the day (only 18 months ago in fact), whenever I started a new Drupal project I would read through the entire modules list and download each module I thought could be useful for the website I was developing. Once the contributed modules grew to such an extent that it would take me half a day to read through the entire list, my method to become acquainted with the current state of modules became prohibitive.  continue ...

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drupal
Drupal Planet

dbscripts v1.0 released

September 19, 2008

I finally decided that what I’ve been developing in the dbscripts module is stable and decent enough to deserve an official 1.0 release. I’ve written up the problem I was trying to solve with these scripts in another blog post.

So what are some improvements I’ve done since I first released it? Besides refactoring and cleaning up the code, I have added:  continue ...

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deployment
development
drupal
version control
Drupal Planet

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