Archive for November, 2009

Andnav2 working on Hero again

  • November 25th, 2009
  • Posted in android

First a short background. HTC Hero released with android 1.5. Google releases android 1.6 with TTS (text-to-speech) support. Andnav2 working fine since it uses external tts library. Author of Andnav2 (Nicolas) releases version compatible with android 1.6, but leaves all users of 1.5 devices out in the cold. The update was uploaded to marked with [ READ MORE ]

Go

Google released a new system programming language. I wonder if the names of Robert Pike and Ken Thomsen will make it more appealing to C people It’s clearly meant to go head to head with C++. The two most interesting design decisions to me is their take on OO (feels like templates done right [ READ MORE ]

Python scoping

  • November 9th, 2009
  • Posted in python

Last friday, Lau discovered an interesting edge case of python. Something that at first appeared to be a bug, but later revealed a deeper truth about the scoping of Python. I guess coming from a C++ background spoils one in some regards. Scoping in C++ is simple and uniform, I have never in many years [ READ MORE ]

Getting android emulator running on Ubuntu 9.10

  • November 6th, 2009
  • Posted in android

I had a little trouble getting the android emulator running on my laptop. I wanted to start debugging why andnav2 is no longer working. Hopefully Nicolas can get it fixed, but it appears that he’s quite busy The first problem I ran into was that the buttons in the tools/android application where not responding [ READ MORE ]

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