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qwerted status update

Wow. just wow. The last few days, I received tons of emails from people who want to beta test qwerted, have been featured on some blogs ( androidguys.com , ignore the code , mobiflip , some other languaged-blogs ), thanks to the all writers, and got a lot of motivation from the positive reactions.
There are [...]

iType Demo Video online – finally getting real

iType, my project, is finally getting close to release state. But talking is boring, so here is a short demo clip. If you have any questions, please write to itypeapp @ gmail.com
I am looking for beta testers, so if you want to test it, please let me know!

iType Demo Video from Moritz Haarmann on Vimeo.
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RandomAccessFile weirdness explained, no buffers, just pain.

Ola! I’ve been coding a new android keyboard lately, a project for my university degree but also : for fun. While I was doing this, specially while implementing a file-based dictionary containing frequency information of all words stored in there, I stumbled upon a very, very weird Java-behavior.
Let’s explain it. Using RandomAccessFile, you have both [...]

Gravatar Mac Address Book Support Updated for Snow Leopard

Because the bundle somehow didn’t work for snow leopard, now it does, and you can get it here. of course . So basically, your mac adressbook is now able to get the gravatars again.. hrhr-

Finally: Wordpress Benchmark

Finally: Wordpress Benchmark

So, there are no real benchmarks of a Wordpress running in the wild available ( couldn’t believe it either.. ). So I got my ab and gnuplot friends and created one. The reason why I’m doing this that while developing ( or forking, to be honest, marc’s work ) i was curious what php can [...]

Whihyhhaha: Android Native Development Kit released

As of yesterday, there is a Native Developer Kit for Android available. This came as a surprise for me, as there were not many rumors covering that topic, but regarding the broad coverage on the iphone 3gs lately, and most of all it’s amazing speed, Google certainly had to do something to keep Android in [...]

Using ActiveResource in the wild

My last posts haven’t been quite technical, and they haven’t been quite recent too- I’m sorry, yet I just don’t have time. As a brief follow-up: it has been overwhelming in San Francisco ( except for the 300$-dentist bill ), and I’m so looking forward to coming back.
And, tada, I’ve been spending the last few [...]

Waiting for… Android wishlist

Welcome in the middle of my night, I’m currently spending my days working, my evenings eating ( barbecue, it’s gettin’ hot in here.. ) and my nights either trying to watch my favorite TV-shows or sleeping. And if none of those shows is on, my head notices me of several thoughts, most of the time [...]

Web Development: The controller, the view, a pain, it’s true.

I’m currently heavily involved in developing a rather huge application for the web. Nowadays, there is a certain illusion that frameworks, be it the Java EE using Spring or Rails and it’s friends simplify development and make it actually fun developing for the web.
At least for me, this fun suddenly ends when it comes to [...]

Rails Plugin: Superdumper, helps you visualize your database schema

You know the problem. You are agile like hell. You don’t bother doing complicated diagrams to show somebody what you’re doing. That’s okay. But sometimes, you need to show off what you’ve been struggling with, and if that day comes, this little rakefile can save some time.
Simply , Unpack this file ( tar bz btw [...]