Shipped! (Finally)

You know that feeling...

...when you're putting something off until the end of the week, not because you're procrastinating, but because you have other things to do now and will have plenty of time at the end of the week to get whatever task done.

And then at the end of the week your hard drive crashes.

Well, I'm running a pair of 2GB drives in RAID1 now, and a 64GB SSD to run windows off of. Lost all my files though, it's going to be a long week and I'll be damned if this is ever going to happen to me again. I've had enough of hard drive failures.

Maybe I'll have a notepad app next week.

2 weeks...

That's about how long it has been since my last post. Between Chinese New Years (lion dancing) 2 weeks ago, and then catching up on homework assignments last week, I've had barely any time for this blog or any android development. I used this last weekend to recover: mentally, emotionally, physically; but now I am back on top of myself, and currently looking at the Android notepad tutorial.

I have to say, from first glances, this is a fair bit more complex than I expected, but about as complex as I should have expected. There's a lot of code, even for a notepad, but it's all basic things like setting up a database to save notes in, and working with the myriad options available to a user (select, open context menu, press back button, etc...)

I hope to crunch through the rest of the basic tutorials this week, and then next week start on writing a very basic application, probably using motion sensors to make an object bounce around the screen.