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Eric Woodruff's blog: August 2014

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Sharing information about software development, mobile development like Android, and automation/productivity. Thursday, August 7, 2014. Rails ajax render template. When working Rails Ajax queries, I commonly need to update more than one section of a page. For instance, a submit action might update a data table, but may also need to show some notifications in #messages. I've collected a few techniques that I've found posted in various forums and blogs into this solution that I use. Links to this post.

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Eric Woodruff's blog: October 2014

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Sharing information about software development, mobile development like Android, and automation/productivity. Saturday, October 4, 2014. Managing server-side ssh commands. When running a long-running command over ssh, sometimes I need that command to be aware of the client connection and to exit with SIGINT on disconnect. Stdin and stdout are the best ways to detect an active connection. (Other alternatives require port forwarding, or log trolling.). Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). I foun...

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Eric Woodruff's blog: November 2013

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Sharing information about software development, mobile development like Android, and automation/productivity. Thursday, November 21, 2013. Try/finally to do post-super actions with return. A common pattern for overriding a super method requires keeping the return result of the super method in a temporary variable:. But this temporary variable can be avoid using try/finally:. Tuesday, November 19, 2013. Interesting usage of a Java switch. That's another advantage to this approach over for (Column e : Colu...

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Eric Woodruff's blog: Android Model-View-Presenter

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Sharing information about software development, mobile development like Android, and automation/productivity. Sunday, January 12, 2014. There are a lot of conflicting recommendations around using the MVP pattern with Android activities. The two suggested approaches make different tradeoffs, and while one of the approaches looks good on the surface, it misses the point. It is fairly trivial to create a common AbstractPresenter and AbstractViewActivity that forward the most common events to the presenter: ...

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Hello Wifi: Hello Wifi...

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HelloWifi mobile app blog authored by Eric Woodruff. Monday, November 11, 2013. This app is not as original as I had assumed it to be, but that tells me something about the existing apps out there if my friends and I had never heard of them before. I can tell you that after having evaluated these apps, I would never recommend them to a friend. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). What is the MVP? Make it work right (now). View my blog at http:/ blog.ericwoodruff.me. View my complete profile.

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Hello Wifi: What is the MVP?

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HelloWifi mobile app blog authored by Eric Woodruff. Tuesday, November 19, 2013. What is the MVP? A wifi password sharing app has to do the following 3 things at a minimum:. Allow sharing (and unsharing) of passwords with friends. Sync updates from the cloud. Show appropriate notifications (especially with a user must take action). And there are other apps out there that can do variants of these functions. However, the two main ones that I know of have two major flaws:. You should expect better. View my ...

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Hello Wifi: Rolling out

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HelloWifi mobile app blog authored by Eric Woodruff. Saturday, February 22, 2014. Well it is finally out there, published in the play store. There are some interesting bugs bug I am committed to smoothing it out. If you are a fan I appreciate your support, and if you aren't I hope to earn it. The core mission is not yet achieved, but it shouldn't be long. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Engineer at NetApp, blogger and aspiring starter. Im also the creator of the http:/ hello-wifi.com.

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Eric Woodruff's blog: Android Async Task with Toast Status

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Sharing information about software development, mobile development like Android, and automation/productivity. Saturday, August 31, 2013. Android Async Task with Toast Status. Here's an extension of the CatchableAsyncTaskLoader I wrote about to add progress/status updates via a Toast. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Android Remote Sync Content Provider Pattern. If you plan on creating an Android SyncAdapter, you should have already seen the great Google I/O presentation on the subject already http:.

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Eric Woodruff's blog: Variation on AsyncResult for Android AsyncTaskLoader

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Sharing information about software development, mobile development like Android, and automation/productivity. Sunday, August 25, 2013. Variation on AsyncResult for Android AsyncTaskLoader. I found this example of an AsyncResult for an Android AsyncTaskLoader. Http:/ blog.gunawan.me/2011/10/android-asynctaskloader-exception.html. However, it suggests a pattern of handling exception types with if/else statements in the "if (exception! Null)", likely with instanceof. Exception to get the value:. I found thi...