This is part 2 of an on-going series on Android development (or at least my warped interpretation of it). If you missed the introduction of the application or a discussion of the tools, you might want to check those out first. I mentioned earlier that… more »

This is the first part of an ongoing series about my adventures in building my first (non-trivial) Android application. For more information about the application, you should peruse my series introduction. I still don?t plan to show any code yet, so I… more »

I?ve spent the last few weeks building my first Android application. I wanted to get my feet wet, but watching videos and reading about it just doesn?t quite cut it for me, so I decided it was time to dive into a real application ? the best way for me to… more »

Over the past few days, I've been working to change our build process and make it a little more flexible for our needs. As part of it, I was asked to look into how we encrypt our data, and see if we could come up with a better way to do it. Right now, we… more »

It's been almost a year since I started at TrackAbout, and so far, it's been one of the best decisions I've made. I absolutely love working from home, and the team I work with is extremely talented. We're a small company, but looking to grow the team ver… more »

I finished reading Mythical Man Month a while ago. [Actually, it was a LONG while ago, but this post has been in my draft list for well over a year!] Overall, I thought it was a good book, but not as good as I expected. I think part of it was the amount… more »

In my last post, I talked about dynamically loading and unloading DLLs. It works well, but I quickly ran into an issue: configuration data. The main application, which is what houses the DLL that's loaded dynamically, has a lot of configuration data, and… more »

As part of a new application I'm building, we wanted it to work together with an existing application already in place - in fact, we wanted it to share the bulk of the implementation for saving certain types of data. The main requirement we had was that… more »

A few months back, I remember having a conversation with someone about my views on test driven development and unit testing in general. I told him that, while I understood the benefits, I hadn't been able to see any of them. As a result, I didn't do a lo… more »

Over the past few weeks, I've had a chance to really dig into certain parts of the Compact Framework. We're taking on a major mobile development project, and one of the key parts will be how we move data from the website to the device and back. So far,… more »