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  My Favorite Git Alias

  Tired of unreadable git log output, I found the git lg alias -- a one-line git config addition that makes your commit history actually scannable.

  Donn Felker – January 4, 2011

• Already a Second Pressing of Android App Dev for Dummies

  Android Application Development For Dummies sold out its first print run and went back to press in under a month -- thanks to readers who picked it up.

  Donn Felker – December 30, 2010

• Android App Dev for Dummies & Motorola Droids

  Motorola Droid won't connect to Eclipse for debugging? Grab this specific USB driver version and installer link that fixed it for a reader.

  Donn Felker – December 26, 2010

• IntelliJ Android Layout LiveTemplates

  A set of free IntelliJ live templates for Android XML layouts -- shortcuts for buttons, list views and more to speed up writing view code.

  Donn Felker – December 23, 2010

• An Annoying IntelliJ Android Build Issue

  IntelliJ threw a phantom 'apk.res not found' build error after a Git branch switch -- the fix was re-selecting the target Android platform in project settings.

  Donn Felker – December 21, 2010

• Beyond Dummies: Improving Performance on the ListView

  A follow-up to my Android Dummies book showing how view recycling with convertView speeds up ListView rendering on lists with thousands of items.

  Donn Felker – December 7, 2010

• IntelliJ Keyboard Shortcuts

  Why I switched from Eclipse to IntelliJ for Android development, plus a link to the keyboard shortcuts PDF I couldn't easily find anywhere else.

  Donn Felker – November 15, 2010

• Setting up an Android Build Server – Part 4: Communicating With Github

  Part 4: connecting a headless Android build server to GitHub by installing Git, generating SSH keys for the hudson user, and setting identity.

  Donn Felker – October 26, 2010

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  Setting up an Android Build Server – Part 3: Installing the Android SDK

  Part 3: installing the Android SDK on a headless Ubuntu server by tunneling the GUI installer over SSH -X since there's no CLI installer.

  Donn Felker – October 25, 2010

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  Setting up an Android Build Server – Part 2: Installing Hudson

  Part 2 of setting up an Android build server: installing Hudson CI as a Debian package on headless Ubuntu, plus the daemon dependency fix.

  Donn Felker – October 22, 2010

• Setting up an Android Build Server – Part 1: The Server

  Part 1 of building an Android CI server on headless Ubuntu 10.04: getting add-apt-repository working and installing Java before Hudson.

  Donn Felker – October 21, 2010

• Presentation Materials from TCCC9

  Slides from my Advanced Android talk at Twin Cities Code Camp 9 are now posted on SlideShare for anyone who attended or missed it.

  Donn Felker – October 14, 2010