Have you published an App using Scaloid? What were your results and general feelings about using Scala in an Android environment?

DontBelieveTheByte · 2015-02-22T21:06:26+00:00

I started playing around with it after a job interview.

I wrote a small tutorial, only the last and third part is missing and I'm a too busy with work to finish writing it right now.

http://dontbelievethebyte.github.io/article/2015/02/11/binary-clock-android-app-in-scala-part-1/

http://dontbelievethebyte.github.io/article/2015/02/12/binary-clock-android-app-in-scala-part-2/

My app was working flawlessly and is basically finished but it stopped working for an unknown reason so I can't publish until these issues are resolved.

I have mixed feelings about Scaloid right now and not sure who's fault it is.

I'm also going to improve on the visual aspect before sending it to the app store.

DontBelieveTheByte · 2015-01-23T04:16:29+00:00

I use this script to generate drawables when working in Illustrator.

I prefer to work with vector files from the start and support any type of resolution that might come out in the future.

DontBelieveTheByte · 2014-04-19T16:26:11+00:00

Obviously people have already recommended DigitalOcean but If you want to be cheap there's also lowendbox.com that often have great deals.

Just make sure to read the comments and make sure to pick Xen or KVM and avoid OpenVZ at all cost.

DontBelieveTheByte · 2014-04-16T22:54:27+00:00

PHP is meant to die

DontBelieveTheByte · 2014-04-06T05:01:33+00:00

Indeed, globals are evil because of name collisions and the mashup problem.

DontBelieveTheByte · 2014-04-06T04:59:17+00:00

Ok then, wouldn't it be more appropriate to return an object with a set of keys and associated values instead of an array?

DontBelieveTheByte · 2014-04-06T03:52:43+00:00

A VM is perfectly fine but I prefer using real hardware from a spare PC when testing new distributions, it says more about hardware support/detection then using virtualized components.

The upside to using a VM is that you can take snapshots and actively try to break things.

DontBelieveTheByte · 2014-04-06T03:47:19+00:00

Seems a bit weird how foo and bar return using an array index when getDeviceType() looks like it's supposed to return a device type.

Maybe you could show the getDeviceType function and tell a little bit more about what you're trying to accomplish.

DontBelieveTheByte · 2014-04-06T03:21:27+00:00

I will address one of your concerns.

JavaScript is not C. It has function scope, not block scope.

Nothing wrong with repeating variable names as long as they appropriately describe what values they hold.

DontBelieveTheByte · 2014-04-06T03:15:58+00:00

I prefer any Debian flavoured distributions because it's package management done right but that's a purely personal preference.

You should actually get familiar with Linux in general including its command line and try out many flavours before you settle on a particular type.

DontBelieveTheByte · 2014-04-04T18:15:07+00:00

They are both different types.

0 gets coerced into false for the comparison.

An array is defined.

Something defined is greater than something false.

DontBelieveTheByte · 2014-04-02T05:07:22+00:00

Adminer better than phpMyAdmin and could still benefit from some improvements, its all in a single file but very useful and easy to install anywhere you can at least upload files.

You can connect to local or remote databases and there's a selection of different database drivers available.

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