Nerdee Findings

Monday, May 10, 2010

Associating a Private Key using Android ConnectBot

https://isa.its.yale.edu/confluence/display/UNIXSYSPUB/Android+SSH+App+-+ConnectBot

Adding your OpenSSH Private Key

Connect your droid to your pc via USB. Copy over your ssh private key, and you can use ConnectBot's "Manage Pubkeys" tool to import it. I tried it with an OpenSSH private key, and it worked flawlessly. Importing a SSH.com key is possible, using PuTTY's keygen tool to convert the private key first.

Setting Up A Connection

Once you have your private key in ConnectBot, you can set up a connection. You can edit that connection once you've created it by long-tapping the host listing and choosing "Edit Host". When you edit the host, you can associate a private key with it, set the SSH Agent Forwarding to on, and change the font size (VITAL -- I find font size 16 to be very readable...size 10 not so much.)

Saturday, May 8, 2010

Eclipse Debug with HTC Incredible Droid

I just got my new HTC Incredible phone yesterday and wanted to test some local android applications on it. The Incredible is so new that the standard usb device installer recommended by the android dev website isn't enough to get started. I found this blog post from someone who figured it out and sure enough, my incredible was recognized after following his steps.

http://www.flexjunk.com/2010/05/01/installing-htc-incredible-android-sd-drivers/

Thursday, May 6, 2010

Android - Writing to the log file

Very simple.

Add a log such as this:

Log.i("Main","Starting the IBM Cloudroid application");

This first string is the "tag" you want to give your log message. And the second string is your message.

To view the log, start you application, in Eclipse is switch to the DDMS perspective

to see the LogCat view:

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Android - Opening a new "window" activity

I'm playing around with some android development for work and found this post helpful as a newbee.

http://learnandroid.blogspot.com/2008/01/opening-new-screen-in-android.html

Basically all you have to do is:

1. Add the following to your AndroidManifest.xml file:

2. Create the NewActivity class

3. On the button press or whenever you want to see the new activity launched call something like this:

Intent i = new Intent(MainActivity.this, NewActivity.class);

startActivity(i);

That's it!!

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Javascript Operating System version check

A number of ways to do it. This article mentions a few of them:

http://www.javascriptkit.com/javatutors/navigator.shtml

Example,

to check for Linux you could do something like this:

var isLinux = (navigator.platform.indexOf("Linux")!=-1);

Monday, September 14, 2009

CSS Wrap a long word to fit container

Today I had to do some searching to find a solution for an internationalization problem. I had a div with a fixed width of 140px and wanted to ensure the text fit inside this div and automatically wrapped. In order to do that I had to find the right css. At first I thought using white-space: pre-wrap would work. However, the problem with that is it only wraps between spaces. So:

this is a
long area
with a
forced
wrap

would look okay. But the following would not wrap and would overflow into the other divs:

thisisalongareawithaforcedwrap

In order to fix that (I was doing it for internationalization purposes) I used this:

word-wrap: break-word;

Worked like a charm!!

Sunday, August 16, 2009

Our Favorite Tweets of the Week Aug 9-Aug 15, 2009

Our Favorite Tweets of the Week Aug 9-Aug 15, 2009: "

Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers.

The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow us on Twitter, however, in case you missed some here’s a quick and useful compilation of the best tweets that we sent out this past week.

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