Tag Archives: Dev

Installing the Android Developer Tools for Eclipse

By MattK | Published: March 2, 2010
If you’re trying to install the Android Developer Tools on Ubuntu and it keeps failing on a strange error: An error occurred while installing the items session context was:(profile=PlatformProfile, phase=org.eclipse.equinox.internal.provisional.p2.engine.phases.Install, operand=null –> [R]org.eclipse.ant.ui 3.4.1.v20090901_r351, action=org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.touchpoint.eclipse.actions.InstallBundleAction). The artifact file for osgi.bundle,org.eclipse.ant.ui,3.4.1.v20090901_r351 was not found. Here’s your solution: <br /> sudo apt-get install eclipse-pde<br /> Worked for [...]
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New article on how to set CGI:IRC as Firefox’s IRC protocol handler

By MattK | Published: December 1, 2009
I really like to overdo things.  In the overdoing spirit of the Thanksgiving season, I overdid something recently. When I clicked on an irc link to a chatroom, it didn’t open in my preferred IRC client, which is on my webserver.   I like to run my applications off of my webserver because I don’t [...]
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Why the Business Hates the Software Developers

By MattK | Published: October 5, 2009
Inspired by “Why I Hate Frameworks” So I wanted a custom spice rack, one that would really help my restaurant, but I didn’t want to build it myself.  I’m no carpenter.  I hired one though. “Can you build me a spice rack? Here’s what I need – “ “Just a sec,” he interrupted. “I’m going [...]
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Using Ruby for command line web lookups

By MattK | Published: October 20, 2008
Common Problem You frequently have to look up customer information on the company website.  Firing up a web browser takes time and invites you to start dawdling away on facebook and such.  If only anyone in the company had bothered to write a decent webservice or command line utility to look up customer information. Find [...]
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The next language I learn will be processing

By MattK | Published: February 4, 2008
Solar, with lyrics. from flight404 on Vimeo. This video was made with a language called processing and apparently it is the exclusive domain of pretty things. I like pretty things.
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