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Thoughts on autonomy, self direction, digital business and life.
Trusting Android Certificates, Part Duex
How to get Android to trust a server signed by a real CA like Thawte, not just a self-signed cert, by building the keystore correctly.
Donn Felker – June 13, 2011
IntelliJ – Waiting for ADB
Fix for IntelliJ 10.5 freezing on Waiting for ADB during Android debugging -- invalidating caches and restarting the IDE clears it right up.
Donn Felker – May 19, 2011
Taxman, You’re Just Too Much (Why I’m Moving)
Why I'm moving my bootstrapped startups from Minneapolis back to Phoenix - mostly taxes and cost of running a lean business, plus what's next for me.
Donn Felker – April 29, 2011
Living Together Harmoniously – IntelliJ and Maven
Getting No valid Maven installation found in IntelliJ? Skip the env variable rabbit hole and just set the Maven home path in IDE settings.
Donn Felker – March 16, 2011
JSONView – The Sweet little FireFox Plugin
JSONView turns ugly raw JSON API responses into readable, formatted output right in Firefox -- a small plugin that's a real productivity boost.
Donn Felker – February 18, 2011
Android: A Simple Eula for your Android Apps
A drop-in SimpleEula.java class that shows your Android app's EULA once per version using shared preferences, instead of nagging users on every launch.
Donn Felker – February 17, 2011
ASP.NET MVC: Building Web API’s with HeaderValueProvider
Build a custom IValueProvider for ASP.NET MVC that hydrates your models straight from HTTP request headers instead of scrubbing them by hand.
Donn Felker – February 16, 2011
Empty Folders: A git svn gotcha
A git-svn gotcha: git ignores empty folders, so deleting one only removes it for git users, leaving SVN users with a route-breaking folder.
Donn Felker – February 15, 2011
MonoTouch: Copying a Preloaded DB
How to ship a preloaded SQLite database with a MonoTouch iOS app and copy it to the documents folder on first launch instead of seeding it live.
Donn Felker – February 10, 2011
My Book Hits #1 on Nielsen Bookscan
My book hit #1 across all programming book categories on Nielsen BookScan, outselling every .NET, iPhone, Java, and Rails title that week.
Donn Felker – January 28, 2011
Android App Dev For Dummies: USB Driver Installation
Google moved the Android USB driver in SDK v9 from Available Packages to Third Party Add-ons -- an update to page 50 of my Dummies book.
Donn Felker – January 13, 2011
Dummies Book: SDK Path
Android Dummies book readers hitting a 'Could not find adb' error after an SDK update? Update your Eclipse ADT Plugin to fix the path.
Donn Felker – January 11, 2011