An adventure with a family members HP TC1100

This evening I spent reinstalling windows onto an HP TC1100 tablet pc. My sister-in-law picked it up at a yard sale for $100. Someone had installed a linux distribution on it and did not manage to set it up right. It is now mostly working, it just needs some updates. A clean install of XP is normally fast, and this one is no exception. Of coarse it will slow down as the kid that will use it installs a bunch of software on it.

Cell phone problems

I cannot receive calls right now, making calls seems to be an issue part of the time as well. T-Mobile is having a network problem. Here is hoping they get it fixed soon. What is funny is that data is working with no problems.

New personal site and Facebook badge.

I have set up a facebook badge on my new personal page. It is limited, but provides a link to my facebook profile. I have also added some other information on the site.

The new site and Facebook gadget

It looks like the Facebook gadget does not play in the way I hoped. It is set up to display stuff from your profile, it would display info from your facebook, not mine. I will keep looking for a way to display at least my status updates on the site.

I have created a new personal page

I have set up a Google Site at http://sites.google.com/site/rgbailey and am working on it. I am exploring their gadgets right now.

It has been a while....

I am running a custom rom on my phone. It is faster than the stock rom and more stable.

new app Androblogger

generates an error 4 when I post a blog entry, but posts log.

new app bug

the new app posted two copies of last post

found new blogger app

I found a new blogger app in the market, it looks very nice.

Yard work

Recently I have been working on cleaning up the bed with the roses in the from yard. I have cleaned up alot of the dead stuff in them. I have some more to clean up and am thinking about removing the gravel from that bed. Today I replaced the timer for the sprinkler system. I still have not found three of the control valves and I need to, one of them is not working. I will be spending some time looking for the control box tomorrow.

Back from camping

Kelley and I are back from camping. We found a couple of issues with the motorhome I need to work on. All I have to do for the rest of the day is to unload the motorhome.

Gone for the weekend

Kelley and I are going camping for the weekend. We may not have service where we will be. I hope everyone has a good weekend.

blogger project

I have been looking at the sample code and am getting my mind wrapped around how to organize the app and how to do the individual processes and to work with the gdata blogger api. It looks like I SHOULD be able to do everything through the existing api. I will be working on the project this coming week. The first step will be to get it to display a list of my blogs. Initially this will be for personal use only as my username and password will be hard coded. After I get the basics working, I will figure out how to store settings so that others can use the software.

Interesting details about the gdata api

I was using wget to study the gdata blogger api and noticed that it was sending the blog entries that have html were being sent with the code formatted with strings starting with & and ending with ;. This could be useful working on a blogger client.

blogger software progress

I have been looking at the source code for A-Blogger. So far I have not found what is stopping it from posting html. I have found that the back end code is already in place for catagories and comments. I am not sure what it would take to implement them. I will continue to look into their code as well as look into my work project.

Getting ready for the camping season

I spent the day getting our motorhome, an American Clipper, ready for the season. I set up a bypass for the water heater that is leaking, repaired the original battery box for the coach battery, replaced both coach batteries, and moved a bunch of gear from the other motorhome we are going to sell. I might take it out tomorrow for an overnight trip. That depends on the weather, since where I want to go is about 8 - 10 miles of dirt road.

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.