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 [...]

20111001 “Unsolicited letters in the 1800s”, available for the Kindle

More good news: I just had my Unsolicited letters in the 1800s book published in Amazon! Which means you can get your own ebook copy almost instantly, instead of having to wait for the print edition to be delivered to your home. Since it’s got a lot of images, it weighs quite a lot for [...]

20110718 aafm – the Android ADB file manager

Complaining is cheap–acting is for the brave ones! So I took the brave, proactive path and wrote aafm: an ADB based file manager, for those of us which can’t get MTP to work, no matter how many voodoo rituals we perform in front of the Sacred Droid Puppet beforehand. I’ve made sure that the project’s [...]

20110703 244 days with Vim, 2 days with gVim: introducing dotvim

Things have changed since I published my “Two weeks with Vim” post. At that time, I was desperately mad –thanks to Eclipse. I even began learning about VTE, the Terminal-like GTK widget–in order to build my own Vim+command line based Android “IDE”. Yes, that’s how irritated I was with Eclipse. But then I found about [...]

20110420 Fixing Be There DSL issues… with a little bit of scripting

When we moved to our current DSL provider (Be There) we didn’t want to go through the pains of using the horrid provided modem, the BeBox. So we got a Netgear which has been working phenomenally well… until recently.