Author Archives: Matt Oakes

Police.uk Update and Droidcon 2011

Posted on August 22, 2011 by Matt Oakes

Police.uk I’m making some good progress on the Police.uk app. I know it’s been a long time since I’ve talked about it, but I’ve been busy writing apps for other people. I’ve got search working. It works really well with … Continue reading →

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And we’re back…. for now

Posted on June 2, 2011 by Matt Oakes

I’m having a few problems with my VPS at the minute. I’ve been attempting to fix it this afternoon and thing I’ve got it to a stable state now. Hopefully it will stay up for a bit. The problem seems … Continue reading →

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Using Eclipse under Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty)

Posted on April 29, 2011 by Matt Oakes

Just a quick tip you you try and use Eclipse under Ubuntu 11.04. Because of the new global menubar thing (which I do quite like) and a bug with Java applications you cant get to any menu items in Eclipse. … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu 11.04 First Impressions

Posted on April 29, 2011 by Matt Oakes

Yesterday I took the long overdue step of wiping my laptop completely and reinstalling everything from scratch. First Stop: Windows 7 This time as well as reinstalling Ubuntu I thought I would redo Windows as well. I only duel boot Windows for … Continue reading →

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Android Manchester Talk – Intents: The Glue That Binds

Posted on April 19, 2011 by Matt Oakes

I’ve had a few requests to post the slides and demos from my talk last night at Android Manchester. For those who didn’t go the talk is about Intents, and the more advanced ways they can be used. The slides … Continue reading →

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No it’s not dead…

Posted on March 21, 2011 by Matt Oakes

Contrary to the lack of blog posts the weekend project is not dead. I’ve been quite busy in the week with university work, among other things so I’ve just not had time to write up what I’ve been doing. I still … Continue reading →

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The Weekend Project – Progress So Far

Posted on March 1, 2011 by Matt Oakes

If you’re not sure what the weekend project is: take a look at my previous post What the plan was As I mentioned in the introduction to this project, I spent the first weekend working on getting the data into … Continue reading →

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The Weekend Project – Police.uk

Posted on February 25, 2011 by Matt Oakes

The Weekend Project I’ve decided from now on I’m going to have a weekend project. I’ll only work on this at the weekend, and not touch the code during the week to make sure I actually get some work done. The … Continue reading →

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The Android Army

Posted on January 25, 2011 by Matt Oakes

A new addition to my Dead Zebra android army today. Soon I will take over the world with them!

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Missing Widgets from the Android SDK

Posted on January 3, 2011 by Matt Oakes

As rich and as lovely as the Android SDK can be, there are still lots of places where it is missing some very useful widgets or views. Some of these are things that should have been in the SDK from … Continue reading →

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