March 2012
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Browser privacy
For some time now, I have been using the private browsing mode (or “incognito mode” or “porn mode”) of my browsers for casual usage. I feel wary of the incredible amount of information that I can let out about myself if I do otherwise.
Real-world cases
I had been aware of this for some time, and we have had some real world examples. For example, in 2006 AOL released...
January 2012
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December 2011
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ActiveRecord: getting a backtrace of your SQL...
The other day I had some strange database queries in my Rails log. I didn’t know what was originating them, so I set out to track down their origin.
Thus I found out about ActiveSupport::Notifications. It is used by Rails to notify about events ocurring inside the framework, and is used to generate the standard logs that we see in our applications. We can turn them to our advantage to...
November 2011
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Amazon's Kindle customer service
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Two weeks ago, I lost my Kindle. I had it at my brother’s place, but then I didn’t have it on the tube. No clue of what could have happened in the middle.
I was already thinking of buying a new one, when I got a call on my phone. It was an Amazon customer services rep. They had my Kindle. Somebody had returned it to them.
Oh, and they...
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Eclipse doesn't let me to findViewById
Yesterday I did my first bit of Android development ever. I created a very simple program that simply updated some text on screen.
I had a problem though. On my Activity, I had the following piece of code:
public void updateText(View view) {
TextView t = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.button);
t.setText("Updated!");
}
And the following bit ox XML in my layout (inside a...