Etter en ukes skitur til Østerrike, Bad Gastein, fikk mitt nye full-HD lommekamera prøve seg. Kameraet er av type Toshiba Camileo S10, et full-HD videokamera som passer fint ned i lomma. Enkelte dager var det ned mot 19 minusgrader i bakkene og det taklet ikke kameraet. Under opptak i 1080p låste kameraet seg gjentatte ganger, fra [...]

I am novice on Android application development, slowly starting to understand the architecture. I particularly like that communication between applications and data storage are resource centric. But anyway… If you have been developing mobile applications for Android you have most likely seen some exceptions in the Eclipse debugger that you don’t understand, maybe not the tiniest [...]

Apache Solr is a very powerful index and search engine. Unfortunately it does have some flaws, at least I think this issue is somehow not “by design”. If you are going to use a field to sort on, make sure you use one of the native data types in Solr, and don’t enable any tokenizer on [...]

Cowboy coding seems interesting, and it might be just that I have been doing when developing Madcow, a PHP web framework. However, it is not the same as Scrum. Many projects tend to fail using the Scrum methodology, possibly because of the lack of clearly defined roles, and then fall back to something looking like Cowboy [...]

I dag kom jeg over noe merkelige greier i MySQL. I en SELECT-spørring hvor jeg bruker WHERE for å søke etter strenger, så betyr det ingenting om jeg spør mot en tom streng eller masse mellomrom. Jeg har en tabell som heter “texts” med kolonnene “uuid”, “name” og “content”. Feltet “content” er av type TEXT fordi jeg [...]