Re: [The Java Posse] Can somebody in the world explain me how search in the Android Market works?

2010-07-08 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 7/7/10 23:04 , Fabrizio Giudici wrote: Today I tried again and EVERYTHING seems to be vanished in thin air (searching for blueBill, the app is still here, though). It's really frustrating. I'd like to understand whether I'm doing something

[The Java Posse] Re: Manchester UK JUG or North UK in general.

2010-07-08 Thread Carl Jokl
Do you know if there is any existing Java User Group for West Yorkshire? It might still be worth forming one if there isn't one already existing. If one does already exist I could contact the JUG leader about holding some events at Bradford. It would also make sense as you say to perhaps have

Re: [The Java Posse] Can somebody in the world explain me how search in the Android Market works?

2010-07-08 Thread Edward Gabriel Moraru
It's glitches man, glitches all the way down ;) On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Fabrizio Giudici fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 7/7/10 23:04 , Fabrizio Giudici wrote: Today I tried again and EVERYTHING seems to be vanished in thin

[The Java Posse] Re: Happy Birthday Michelle Meyer's Boyfriend!

2010-07-08 Thread duncan
Hi Guys, I am MMB and awestruck that I have a girlfriend who would dream up a stunt like that. Thanks for the birthday wishes. Glad to hear there won't be any more birthday songs - jeez some of us are trying to sleep :-) Keep up the great work with the podcast. Cheers, Duncan On Jul 7, 2:07 

[The Java Posse] Calculating Computer Requirements

2010-07-08 Thread rhythmchicago
Hi! I was wondering if anyone here has any experience calculating computer requirements for a java application. We wrote a multi-threaded machine control program, and we know if we spend more than x amount of dollars on the computer, it will run without a problem, but we'd like to actually

[The Java Posse] Re: Android tablet

2010-07-08 Thread shain...@googlemail.com
Sorry Fabrizio missed your post I have heard that the build quality on the exen can be variable ( similar with the apad ). But this is second hand. On 5 July, 22:13, Fabrizio Giudici fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 7/5/10 23:03 , Jan

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Delay on AVD

2010-07-08 Thread Moandji Ezana
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 7:10 PM, jahid jsho...@gmail.com wrote: I tried with both home key, and also pressing the back key to get out of the application to see if that reloads the application. But seems like its not reloading the application. Any idea how can I ask the emulator to reload the

[The Java Posse] Geek time

2010-07-08 Thread Rakesh
Hi guys, this is targeted at those slightly older developers out there who have been coding for a while now and consider themselves rather good at what they do. How do you make time to keep up to date? I mean, I have a full time job which leaves me knackered in the evenings and a wife and son

Re: [The Java Posse] Geek time

2010-07-08 Thread Robert Casto
I listen to the JavaPosse. Seriously. I also listen to other pod casts when exercising or driving to/from work. I take books with me to my kids activities. When they are doing something, my attention is there. Before the concert or ceremony, I'll read a bit and try to catch up on something. On

Re: [The Java Posse] Geek time

2010-07-08 Thread jitesh dundas
I am not married so no comments.However, I do would like to hear this reply. Thanks, jd On 7/8/10, Rakesh rakesh.mailgro...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, this is targeted at those slightly older developers out there who have been coding for a while now and consider themselves rather good at

Re: [The Java Posse] Geek time

2010-07-08 Thread jitesh dundas
wow!..I wish a single guy like me could manage time like that. regards, jd On 7/8/10, Robert Casto casto.rob...@gmail.com wrote: I listen to the JavaPosse. Seriously. I also listen to other pod casts when exercising or driving to/from work. I take books with me to my kids activities. When

Re: [The Java Posse] Geek time

2010-07-08 Thread Manfred Moser
I agree with Robert. I am married with three little boys under 5 and I find myself listening to podcast whenever possible. Since I have a mobile phone I also get to keep up with my RSS feeds in Google reader much better (subscribed to 100 feeds easily). And magazines and books lay around the

[The Java Posse] Re: android podcasts

2010-07-08 Thread Eurig Jones
There's the Android Guys Podcast.. http://www.blogtalkradio.com/androidguys But again this is a more of an android device podcast not a dev one. The quality of audio is really low for some reason and the program is 2 hours long. Maybe we need to do a dev one :-) On Jul 6, 6:36 pm, Matt Passell

[The Java Posse] Re: Can somebody in the world explain me how search in the Android Market works?

2010-07-08 Thread Eurig Jones
I dont think truly anyone knows for sure :-/ I'm just polishing off my latest app and will be releasing it in the coming weeks. It's been a lot of hard work and I'm a bit worried about being lost in the flood, or worse - not being exposed at all due to issues like this. On Jul 8, 9:19 am,

Re: [The Java Posse] Geek time

2010-07-08 Thread Steven Siebert
+1 podcasts I also find carrying around my mobile with several PDF's downloaded helps fill the gap when I may have an unexpected moment. These two help me keep the business/implementation side up to date. Membership in ACM is also helpful for the emails and quarterly publications (if you join a

Re: [The Java Posse] Geek time

2010-07-08 Thread Robert Casto
I now work on Android so it is a bit easier to keep up to date. :) I really struggled before because I was doing JDK 1.4 all the time. I'm hoping to find a way to do more reading on the Android so I don't have to lug books all the time. Kindle is on it, but none of the technical books I want to

[The Java Posse] Java on 64-bit Windows 7

2010-07-08 Thread rhythmchicago
Hi. Looking for feedback. Anybody here see any issues or performance drop running a Java app on 64-bit windows 7 vs. running it on a 32-bit system? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Java Posse group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: android podcasts

2010-07-08 Thread Robert Casto
+1 on creating one Perhaps many people here can take portions. Then one person puts it all together into one podcast. One person could do devices, another hardware, another SDK updates, another cool applications, etc. Each could be 5 to 10 minutes and marks could be made in the podcast so it is

Re: [The Java Posse] Geek time

2010-07-08 Thread Mark Fortner
Most of the Manning books are available in both PDF formats. Some of them are available in ePub format as well. There are PDF readers for both iPod Touch/iPhone and Android that should let you read your books. I'm not sure how readable they'll be. I've had some success reading journal articles

Re: [The Java Posse] Geek time

2010-07-08 Thread Manfred Moser
You should be able to get the various books in ebook format. E.g. all the commonsware books are available in PDF .. and you can read them on your android phone just fine. Btw. welcome to the android dev club.. I guess we really need an android dev podcast .. at this stage javaposse and

Re: [The Java Posse] Geek time

2010-07-08 Thread Robert Casto
Maning doesn't have everything I want to read but it might be a good start. I have a subscription to Commonsware. I guess it would be nice if some of the Apress and O'Reilly books were available as well. I don't need the whole book on the phone. Just the chapter I want to read. :) On Thu, Jul 8,

Re: [The Java Posse] Geek time

2010-07-08 Thread shainnif ismail
have you tried safari books? safaribooksonline.com/ most of the books can be seen on a mobile device Regards Shaine Ismail On 8 July 2010 19:51, Robert Casto casto.rob...@gmail.com wrote: Maning doesn't have everything I want to read but it might be a good start. I have a subscription to

Re: [The Java Posse] Geek time

2010-07-08 Thread Robert Casto
I'll check that out. Thanks! On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 3:01 PM, shainnif ismail shain...@gmail.com wrote: have you tried safari books? safaribooksonline.com/ most of the books can be seen on a mobile device Regards Shaine Ismail On 8 July 2010 19:51, Robert Casto casto.rob...@gmail.com

Re: [The Java Posse] Java on 64-bit Windows 7

2010-07-08 Thread Wildam Martin
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 20:10, rhythmchicago rhythmchic...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. Looking for feedback. Anybody here see any issues or performance drop running a Java app on 64-bit windows 7 vs. running it on a 32-bit system? I can only say that Java looks like running slower on Windows 7 32-bit

Re: [The Java Posse] Java on 64-bit Windows 7

2010-07-08 Thread Marcelo Fukushima
it also eats up more memory On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Wildam Martin mwil...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 20:10, rhythmchicago rhythmchic...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. Looking for feedback. Anybody here see any issues or performance drop running a Java app on 64-bit windows 7 vs.

Re: [The Java Posse] Geek time

2010-07-08 Thread Peter Becker
This might be not suitable for everyone, but I find the combination of (public transport + netbook + tethering) extremely helpful. OTOH I am currently accepting a commute of 1h+ as opposed to ~30min direct drive, I am not sure I'll keep that up. At the moment pretty much 90%+ of my private

Re: [The Java Posse] Geek time

2010-07-08 Thread Robert Casto
I used to have a 1.5 hour commute one way. You can get a lot done in that time. Now I don't need to commute all the time and it has gotten harder to get the reading done. That will change once school starts and my daughter starts doing lots of marching band stuff. :) On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 5:35

[The Java Posse] Re: Geek time

2010-07-08 Thread Chris Adamson
Who says your private developer time has to be in the evening? I do my extra time, like book-writing and studying new stuff, first thing in the morning (after a little wake-up web surfing and exercise). Maybe that pushes off your knackered time to the last hour of your work day, but depending on

[The Java Posse] Rumours of Java's demise have been greatly exaggerated.

2010-07-08 Thread Reinier Zwitserloot
A while ago, java dipped below C's rating in the tiobe programming index, and this caused the usual battery of 'java is dying' doomsayers to crop up, some even here on the javaposse forum. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG5sDiuvBkYfeature=player_embedded# That's the CEO of SourceForge explaining

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Geek time

2010-07-08 Thread Mark Fortner
I had a boss once who blocked off an hour a day as learning time. I don't know what your schedule is like at work, but that may be an option for you. Mark On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Chris Adamson invalidn...@gmail.com wrote: Who says your private developer time has to be in the evening?

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Happy Birthday Michelle Meyer's Boyfriend!

2010-07-08 Thread Steven Siebert
Happy Birthday, Duncan. With 15min to spare (EST)! Steve On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 9:40 AM, duncan duncan.ch...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Guys, I am MMB and awestruck that I have a girlfriend who would dream up a stunt like that. Thanks for the birthday wishes. Glad to hear there won't be any