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Coding for Android that is.

Damn some people are fast at coding. I’ve gotta start churning out a bit of codes myself. I don’t think I’ll win the Android programming competition, not when there are so many talented programmers around, but I definitely think it’s worthwhile to spend some time learning to code for the platform. There are millions of phones out there and Google is bound to snag a few percent market share. Who knows? If this thing really takes off, folks that started Android early would’ve gotten a pretty healthy start.

I’m still going through the docs, though I admit I haven’t spent enough time doing so. Less than 2 hours if I remember correctly.

Note to self, start_now.

If you happen to see this:

javax.faces.FacesException: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: [Ljava.lang.String;

When your code has been running fine all the while, fret not, according to this post in the java.net forums it’s an issue with JDK 6. This means you’d have to use a system wide JDK that is lesser than JDK 6 (highly undesirable, I always want the latest and greatest ). A more viable solution is to for Tomcat to use its own JDK via  

-Djava.library.path=”C:/j2sdk1.4.2_06/bin”

argument during startup. If you are using MyEclipse, it’s even simpler. See the screenshot below.

To all Java developers, engineers and hobbyists,

Myjug or Malaysian Java User Group is looking to increase its members to encourage knowledge sharing and advancement of the Java platform in Malaysia. There is a Yahoo Groups (also a mailing list) and a Facebook Group, where members can post profiles of themselves. There’s been more activity lately in the mailing list and a few outings have already been organized to establish a new committee but the group needs more active members to take off.

Here’s a brief open invite from Yuen-Chi Lian, an active participant in myjug:

We have very strong faith and are true believers that
the IT industry’s contribution is important to the success of this
group of the Java community and its people. Please pass this on to your friends or the Java people in your organization. Cheers.

Google Maps now has Malaysian streets displayed, as opposed to just satellite images. With this, you can start annotating it (see Subang Jaya Medical Centre example). Can anyone verify whether this is available in the various mobile versions of Google Maps?

Firstly, I’ll say that this isn’t for the IT-challenged. If you freakout when you see command lines and wonder if ‘kernel’ is a brand of cereal, look elsewhere, you don’t want to endanger yourself. Grab someone to do it for ya instead

Hack Attack: Build a Hackintosh Mac for Under $800 is a very comprehensive guide from LifeHacker on how to get Mac OS X Leapord running on an Intel machine. At the very least, the article is a good read because of the pictures of the beautiful Mac OS GUI running on a self-assembled PC.

A shame that the Hackintosh seems to only run a select set of hardware components and the need for a Mac OS X DVD in the drive to boot properly.

Note: I don’t know if this is legal or not and in no way condoning it, you know, the kind of projects you’d do for educational purposes *cough*.