Category Archives: english

Using Twitter oauth on GAE/J

January 26, 2010 – 1:22 am

Twitter supports oauth and there are many libraries for it, for  Java(twitter4J)(oauth-signpost),  most of the time you see examples of a desktop version, so it can take time to implement it on a web application (it did take time for my case).
Step 1. Get a Twitter account and create a Twitter application from http://twitter.com/apps (don’t [...]

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Using Memcache with Google App Engine (GAE/J)

January 18, 2010 – 11:39 pm

A simple beginning — Fragman iPhone Application
Memcache provides convenience to store a frequent query in memory, so that you don’t have to make the same execution over and over again. For the iPhone application I build (Fragman), I build a GAE/J backend for managing movie names, IMDB URLs, thumb images, video files, etc. It interacts [...]

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A Simple Chart for a GWT Application on GAE/J

December 19, 2009 – 2:41 am

I am trying charting solutions for a GWT project and gchart seems a nice one. After some digging I create a sample project which is hosted on Google App Engine (GAE) demo. Source code is at Google project
The chart will show the remaining number of months in the current year.

First download the jar from the [...]

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Rama II

December 9, 2009 – 3:47 pm

I’ve recently finished the novel Rama II (goodreads)(wikiepedia)by Arthur C. Clarke (ACC) and Getry Lee. Two authors form a perfect combination. Below are some of the passages I underline. There are in fact some very good passages.
Mankind was not unique, maybe not even special. It was just a question of time before prevailing homo centric notion of [...]

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Cydia and XCode Local App Testing

October 19, 2009 – 1:44 pm

1. Go to /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneOS3.0.sdk/SDKSettings.plist and change CODE_SIGNING_REQUIRED to NO and save it. (if it complains about file permission right click the file and select Get Info and after unlocking the file, change the permission to read&write)

2. In XCode open the info page and change Code Signing Identy to Don’t Code Sign.

3. In the terminal, set [...]

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