20111110 Some notes from Google DevFest Barcelona 2011

I thought I wouldn’t make it to the place. Barcelona’s metro system is still pretty much unknown to me and it’s hard to find navigational help using the official web from the transport entity. Maps are confusing (we need a Beck!). A shame, but I finally did it, after walking the same loooong underground exchange [...]

20111106 aafm revision 3

When I published the first version of aafm back in July I didn’t expect many people to use it… but to my surprise it seems to be way more useful than I thought, and from time to time I get thanks for aafm! e-mails, from random people who were pulling their hairs trying to get [...]

20111102 Distro/desktop (s)hopping, part 3: Lubuntu

As I’m now fully embarked on my experimental setup, today I tried to kill two birds with one stone and set up a virtualised Android development environment try out yet another distribution I did something similar a couple of days ago: I created a virtual machine, installed Arch Linux on it and assembled an “on [...]

20110930 RegExpert & its postmortem

I finally published my first game ever! It’s called RegExpert, and if you like regular expressions, you’ll love it! If you don’t, you’ll learn to love them both! Also, since every game must have one, I’ve also written a lengthy postmortem. It’s the first game postmortem I ever write too, so I’m not sure if [...]

20110811 Android’s Text To Speech

After I found out that nasty Xperia PLAY bug, I kept experimenting a bit more today. It was the turn for Android’s TTS, or Text To Speech, capabilities. This allows you to send a string and get it read through the speakers.