I have started a new project.

I have been looking at the samples included with the gdata source code. It does handle html so I would be able to format my posts and imbed links into them. What I need to do is figure out how to migrate it from a console app to an Android app. If I get it working at all I might release a beta of it. If there is enough interest, I might even make it available through the Market. It would be a pay app to cover some of the costs.

A-Blogger update

I uploaded the picture of Alexander last night via email publishing. I discovered that it stores the image at picasa. This means I can live with the fact this client cannot upload photos. I do have a problem with the fact that I cannot do ANY FORMATTING OF MESSAGES, past capitalization and punctuation. I cannot create new paragraphs as you can see in the post "General Update". Each number is supposed to be a new paragraph. The lack of formatting makes it tough to read.

Photo of Alexander

This is Alexander, my grandson. There are more on Picasa.

General Update

1. I spent alot of time going through sample programs and tinkering with the gdata library trying to get it to access the server. I could not figure out how to display the data. I will look at the source code for A-Blogger and look at increasing the features of it. It already has a lot going for it. 2. This afternoon I cut down and partially cut up a dead blue spruce in our back yard. The Ryobi One+ Chainsaw that we bought worked great. I found out that it looks like the older batteries that I have seem to be going bad, they are about 3 years old. I will work on the cleanup some tomorrow. 3. I did a battery calibration on my T-Mobile G1 last night. It seems to have helped with the battery life. I am currently running it dead again for the second time. So far I am at just over 9 hours with moderate use. Only one or two calls though.

More about blogging system

I posted the last message via email. Clearly emails are parsed to find links in them. A post by email cannot be edited with the client I am working with on my phone. It looks like I may have to write a parser for this program or write an interface that allows you to insert a url or image. Either on will be a major project for a hacker of a programmer, like me.

Posting a URL

www.rb-consulting.net

Update on using the G1

I have found some web sites insist on showing you the mobile or "iPhone" version of their site, even if you click on their full version link. Most notable is www.foxnews.com, when I have scroll to the very bottom of a page to click a link, I do not want to be rerouted back to the page I was just at. I did send an email to the mail link near the full version link and received no response yet. I will check the spam folder in a little while.

Update on A-Blogger client

It looks like the A-Blogger only allows plain text. Any sort of html causes a problem when posting. I will look through the code later and see if I can change this. I also would like to see what it would take to include images in posts.

Watching Alex

I am watching Alexander, my grandson, for a few minutes while Kelley is busy.

Teaching myself java programming

I recently got a T-Mobile G1 phone. This phone runs Android OS and apps are written in java. I have set up the development environment on a couple of my computers. I have been working through the tutorials and looking at source code from open source projects. While doing this I found the source code for Android-Identities and A-Blogger. I have built both of them and am currently using them. After I understand them better, I am looking at expanding the features of them.

First Post !!!!!!

This is the first post to this blog from my phone. We will see if this is something I will keep up.