Developer Bits

Dual Booting and Configuring a Dell Alienware 15 R4 with Ubuntu 18.04 for Android Development Context: New Job. New Laptop. After star...

Regex is the ultimate swiss army knife. The kind you can use for years and still not exercise it all. That's how I felt years ago whe...

I'm working on an app where the server provides certain icon images but only in one color. Needing to tint these images, I checked wheth...

Problem After installing Google Play services on Genymotion devices, I get a popup every time I try to install an APK. This popup prevents ...

Problem After upgrading from Google play services 6.5.87 to 7.0.0 I got compile errors in sections of code I hadn't touched. Symptoms...

Problem After installing Genymotion, it doesn't work. Running the application gives errors and the shell script fails with segment faul...

This blog entry is using Google's Prettify, which was put in place following the setup outlined, below. Out with the Old I've b...

Problem While running a unit test under Robolectric on Android, the following error occurs: java.lang.RuntimeException: Stub! Symptoms ...

I just ran into a problem SO annoying, I had to stop EVERYTHING and write down how to fix this, immediately. That way, the next time it hap...

Occasionally, my internet gets REALLY slow on my laptop. Then I go use my wife's PC and everything is fine. Since few things are more ag...

While trying to recover lost data typed into a web page on Safari, I stumbled across this forum and one response was worth remembering for ...

I just stumbled across an interesting shell command: nc It's used for simple client/server interactions from the shell. With it, you ...

Problem I could not update or commit a certain folder in my subversion project using subclipse in eclipse. Symptoms Both commit and updat...

Problem Compiling fails because of dependencies related to Sun, such as javamail, jms, jmx. These failures have some of the symptoms liste...

I've looked this up 3 times so I finally decided to jot it down so I don't forget it. Problem Can't remember the Linux command...

Problem You need to rollback/revert subversion to a previous version and you're using the Subclipse plugin for Eclipse (or Flash Builde...

Warning: this post is dripping with awesome. Once you're able to get this working, you might go dancing in the street (I know I did!). ...

Problem You need to completely remove mysql from your system as easily as possible. Symptoms You want to do a clean delete and a fresh ins...

Today, I had a small pixelbender issue that I faced once before and forgot about it until I found the solution. Since this is the second ti...

I just referenced this section of a file on my laptop because it has direct links and I was too lazy to think through installing mysql. Then...

Ok. This was so awesome, I had to stop everything and blog about it, simply because every Eclipse user on earth should hear about this. Pr...

NOTE: I've added a troubleshooting section at the very bottom to address additional problems I encounter. If you have trouble with inst...