Author Archives: mef

Observations from Android Market

The Tombo Edit has spent a little over a month on the market. It seems to have generated some decent interest with hundreds of downloads. Few items of interest: Comments are filtered by system language. In development console I see … Continue reading

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My first app in Android Market

I’ve published the Tombo Edit, my first Android application, in the Android market. The longest time between debugging and publishing it took to create a decent icon. I’ve used the BlowFish encryption code directly ported from Tombo Crypt’s C++ It … Continue reading

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NDepend is released

About a year ago I’ve read a book “Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices” by Robert Martin, which have introduced a nice metrics for design quality. I was eager to write a program which would use .Net reflection and … Continue reading

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XML for Resumes

I just started to use RSS Bandit to get my news, and surely stumbled upon DonXML’s post about HR-XML compliant resume. I’ve had my resume in HR-XML format since 2001, and could not be happier. I’ve had all those nice ideas … Continue reading

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Pretty nasty bug in interaction between Oracle, ODBC and COM+

It happens, if we are accessing more then one database in one COM+ transaction. We are relying on ODBC connection pooling, so we typically open a connection to one database, run some queries, close the connection, then open connection to … Continue reading

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MyIpConfig on Source Forge

I’ve started my first Open Source project on Source Forge. MyIpConfig is a simple utility for PocketPC, which is inspired by WinIPCfg utility from Windows 9x times.

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