Waiting for Android

As my old Sony Ericsson P1i is almost dead and going that direction very fast, I had to do something about it. Since I am not in a position to buy an expensive smartphone now, but still wanted an Andoid phone, order myself a Samsung Galaxy 3 (i5800) for EURO 140 only – nice price for a phone that can serve me for a while until I get something better.

Going around the web and checking what’s there for Android, I found a huge amount of apps, and for sure, when I will have a phone with me (expected to ship within 10 days), I will be installing and checking a lot of stuff, but since a lot of you already have an Android phone, it would be nice to hear your recommendations on different applications. What do you run and like? Put it this way: which apps you will install immediately if you change your phone to another Android?

Actually, any recommendations would be better than nothing, so while I have few days before I have a phone, I can go and check, as well as safe some time on trying apps, since I know a lot of them duplicate each others functionality.

Comments from you are highly appreciated :-)

Flat by the office saves the office

Today we had a car accident near the office and one of the cars hit and destroyed a communication box of the ISP, which we use in the office. No internet or phones were working, but by luck, my flat is just cross the road and I am using other ISP, so bridged WiFi connection recovered the office workflow for a time being. Hopefully the guys from Cyta will fix their stuff soon :)

.NET VB Visual Studio and MonoDevelop

I saw a pretty interesting case today. My lovely girlfriend is studying for computer science and while doing VisualBasic class, she created a software in Vistual Studio for her father. Later on we put Fedora on her laptop and now she needed to do some improvements in the application. We got MonoDevelop with mono-basic compiler and opened the project of VisualStudio on MonoDevelop. All seemed fine, but the code would not compile.

Next to the line of code “Me.MainForm = Global.OurAppName.Form1” it was giving an error: “OurAppName.Form1′ is a type and cannot be used as an expression. (VBNC30691)“. Note that this line of code was produced by VisualStudio. The issue has to do with object creation. While normal syntax would be “objectVar = New ClassName“, the actual code was of “objectVar = ClassName” format and obviously was giving compile error. Converting a code to “Me.MainForm = New Global.OurAppName.Form1” solved the issue perfectly well, but a question is: how an IDE would do such a mistake and why it would compile under windows?

jQuery dataTable and FancyBox

Just a short note as an addon to my post some time ago about fancybox and ajax: in case a you have a table where one of the columns contains links to fancybox popups or something like that and this table is also wrapped into jQuery dataTables, do the init of fancybox prior to init of dataTables, since if you do dataTables first, all elements that are not on the current page will not be properly initialized with fancybox and thus, the links will be broken if you navigate to the next page of dataTable.

The point is that when dataTable is initiated, all elements that do not fit on a single page of a table are hidden via removal from DOM and thus not visible for fancybox init function, while if you do other way around, first fancybox is correctly set to all elements in the table and then hidden elements are removed, so when you change a page and elements are inserted back – they are already inited with fancybox and will work perfectly well.