Hi, I'm Michael and welcome to my blog.
My interests are rather wide and varied, from reading to writing with fountain pens as well as enjoying great food with even greater company.
Consider having a look at my Flickr photostream, if photography interests you. I have also authored some texts on Mathematics, Physics, and Engineering. Last but not least, my Curriculum Vitae.
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For the past few days, I’ve been getting up to speed with concurrent thread execution in Java, namely for Android. I only just stumbled on to this excellent blog post on the topic. I will therefore organise the rest of this post in reference to the link – do read it! Threading as per Android [...]
So, um, I did say I’d go to sleep at 4 am right?……….. right? Well, I’m still up and here’s my second ever Android app – well, more a proof of concept. Upon choosing a list item the string of text I passed to the subactivity is show via a Toast alert, as well in [...]
I spent about an hour today, for the very first time, with the Android SDK (2.2) all setup and ready to go. Why 2.2? Well, my Nexus One is still at API level 8 – until @cyanogen comes out with Gingerbread, it’ll stay that way. <style type=”text/css”> div.dashboard-panel { max-width:1000px; margin:0 0 2em 0; padding:20px [...]
